Improving growth & speed
Uncertainty is also an opportunity
What we can learn from recessions to accelerate performance. “I thought about the
recession and decided not to take part”. Four research-based themes for sustaining future growth and resilience.
Redraw your mental map, or fail
The upside of turbulence: summary of a book by professor Donald Sull about being agile and responsive in the short-term and staying true to long-term goals and purpose. A practical, evidence-based, recipe for leaders to question plans, try ideas and build a culture of continual renewal.
A sense of urgency
A sense of urgency: summary of John Kotter’s book on why urgency is the most powerful business tool of all. How a leader can behave with urgency, how to spot a false sense of urgency and how to create a true one in your organisation.
Strategic speed: mobilise people, accelerate execution
Strategic speed: Mobilize people, Accelerate execution: summary of a book by Davis, Frechette and Boswell about putting people at the heart of delivering ‘speed to value’ (how long it takes until an initiative or new strategy adds value, not how fast until it is executed).
Four practices for leaders to streamline, simplify and increase speed across their business.
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The end of competitive advantage
The end of competitive advantage: summary of a book by professor Rita Gunther McGrath which challenges the classic approach to strategy and argues we are in a world of ‘transient advantage’ and describes the leadership and organisational characteristics of being a responsive, fast-moving company.
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Is your executive team like an Italian family dinner?
Conflict is good: Reckitt Benckiser has been a case of sustained growth. The four organisation and leadership drivers behind a decade of sector-beating performance.