Strategic Speed

"Where urgency meets execution. This book helps leaders tackle their greatest challenge: turning plans into action, fast."---Walt Macnee, President, International Markets, MasterCard Worldwide "A refreshing new view on strategy: how leaders can execute strategy through people, and what makes some companies faster and more agile than others."---Isobel Peck, Chief Marketing Officer, Informa "In Strategic Speed, we finally get the implementation model that needs to go with the strategy."---Lean Schlesinger, President, Babson College "This book is packed with great insights and practical tools. Read it, use it, and gain strategic speed."---Craig Wortmann, CEO, Experience LLC, and author of What's Your Story? "The framework, case examples, and tools equip leaders to embrace and execute strategic speed."---Noel Tichy, professor and director, Global Citizenship Initiative at the University of Michigan; and coauthor (with Warren Bennis) of Judgment "I urge executives everywhere to read this book. It's filled with valuable insights and actionable best practices that every company will benefit from."---Douglas Anderson, President and CEO, Carlson Wagonlit Travel "Davis, Frechette, and Boswell make things just as Einstein requested: simple, without being simplified. They identify predictable change management traps and provide useful frameworks for avoiding them."---Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, Harvard Business School "The magic is in the execution. Strategic Speed provides relevant business cases and practical suggestions to create that magic and deliver real outcomes."---Catriona Noble, Managing Director, McDonald's Australia

Only 30 percent of strategic initiatives are successfully executed. Of those that are, most CEOs view the process as too slow. What’s going on? And how can you accelerate execution in your company? In Strategic Speed, the authors provide the answers. Start by understanding the barriers to execution: Employees don’t grasp where an initiative is going. They don’t adopt new behaviors. They’re not committed to working together to achieve results. Most leaders try to speed things up by changing processes or installing new technologies. But better processes and systems won’t remove the barriers. Instead, you need to unleash three people factors—clarity (understanding the goal), unity (collaborating across work groups), and agility (adapting quickly). The authors explain how to unleash these factors by exercising four leadership abilities: • Affirming strategies: Ensuring everyone knows the destination and wants to go there • Driving initiatives: Accelerating projects called for by your strategy • Managing climate: Controlling what it feels like to work in your team • Cultivating experience: Harnessing employees’ knowledge and expertise Strategic Speed provides real-world examples—from companies as diverse as Tata Sky, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Ameriprise, and Fender Guitars—showing these practices in action. And it’s packed with tools and assessments for diagnosing where your execution efforts are in trouble and choosing specific actions for accelerating results in your firm.

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