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Reinvent your company to deliver sustained profitable growth.

As performance lags in the midst of economic cycles, many companies turn to magic bullets such as EVA, Kaizen, or Six Sigma. Unfortunately, these initiatives-along with how they''re implemented-often deliver only short-term positive impact or cause more pain than the preexisting condition.

Returning to competitive health and profitability in the face of economic downturns requires a dynamic realignment of business strategies, organizational design, and talent management. Based on timely research conducted by Axiom Consulting Partners, Shockproof empowers and enables business leaders, owners and managers to make and maintain the necessary connection between strategies and organization to achieve sustainable performance.

  • Create an agile business that can rapidly reinvent itself as business conditions change
  • Foster leadership that knows how to mobilize people to execute and de

    Table of Contents

    Foreword Paul Jacobs vii

    Prologue A Shockproof Future ix

    Chapter 1 Beware the Big Blue Catfish 1

    Chapter 2 Headlines or Tombstones? 23

    Chapter 3 Make Sure the Strategy Is “Not Wrong” 49

    Chapter 4 Beyond Boxes and Lines 77

    Chapter 5 Carbon Paper? Really?! 107

    Chapter 6 Connections and Calibrations 153

    Chapter 7 Be the Leader You Seek 199

    Chapter 8 Pass the Salt 241

    Notes 257

    Acknowledgments 264

    Index 267

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    A Hardback by Debra Jacobs, Garrett Sheridan, Juan Pablo González

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      Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 26/11/2010
      ISBN13: 9780470872543, 978-0470872543
      ISBN10: 0470872543

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Reinvent your company to deliver sustained profitable growth.

      As performance lags in the midst of economic cycles, many companies turn to magic bullets such as EVA, Kaizen, or Six Sigma. Unfortunately, these initiatives-along with how they''re implemented-often deliver only short-term positive impact or cause more pain than the preexisting condition.

      Returning to competitive health and profitability in the face of economic downturns requires a dynamic realignment of business strategies, organizational design, and talent management. Based on timely research conducted by Axiom Consulting Partners, Shockproof empowers and enables business leaders, owners and managers to make and maintain the necessary connection between strategies and organization to achieve sustainable performance.

      • Create an agile business that can rapidly reinvent itself as business conditions change
      • Foster leadership that knows how to mobilize people to execute and de

        Table of Contents

        Foreword Paul Jacobs vii

        Prologue A Shockproof Future ix

        Chapter 1 Beware the Big Blue Catfish 1

        Chapter 2 Headlines or Tombstones? 23

        Chapter 3 Make Sure the Strategy Is “Not Wrong” 49

        Chapter 4 Beyond Boxes and Lines 77

        Chapter 5 Carbon Paper? Really?! 107

        Chapter 6 Connections and Calibrations 153

        Chapter 7 Be the Leader You Seek 199

        Chapter 8 Pass the Salt 241

        Notes 257

        Acknowledgments 264

        Index 267

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