Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive Advantage - Couverture rigide

"Empirical, provocative, and refreshing, this book is a remarkable barometer of corporate progress. If you′re running a company and you want enlightenment or inspiration about the next big step, you should read it. It′s a book that has deep insights into behavior and behavior matters, because it lies at the heart of successful culture."
John Varley, former group CEO, Barclays Bank

"A sprinter who wins gold in the 100–meter dash and then collapses and dies isn o model for building a sustainable high–performance organization. Beyond Performance presents a powerful training plan for the institution that seeks to win today and tomorrow."
Tom Glocer, CEO, Thomson Reuters

"Beyond Performance delivers a big, profound idea with remarkable simplicity.It draws on the accumulated experience of hundreds of companies over more than a decade to arrive at fundamental truths about how organizations large and small can stay healthy,adaptable, and responsive both now and into an uncertain future. We need more books like this one, and more authors like Keller and Price to provoke, challenge, and inform us."
Sir David Nicholson, National Health Service Chief Executive, England

"This book makes a strong case for why a focus on organizational health, not quarter––––by–quarter profits, will deliver consistent long–term results. A must–read for CEOs, senior managers, or even students who want to understand what drives long–term value creation."
N. R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman and Chief Mentor, Infosys Technologies

"Sustainability of success is on the mind of every responsible leader. Keller and Price combine analytical rigor with a profound understanding of human behavior in describing organizational health as a way to perform beyond the short term."
Daniel Vasella, Chairman, Novartis

"If you′ve ever wondered why some good organizations go bad, read this book.Keller and Price succinctly explain the reasons and show how to stop it from happening to you."
Shikha Sharma, Managing Director and CEO, Axis Bank

In an ever–changing world where only a third of excellent organizations stay that way over the long term, and where even fewer are able to implement successful change programs, leaders are in need of big ideas and new tools to thrive. In Beyond Performance, McKinsey & Company′s Scott Keller and Colin Price give you everything you need to build an organization that can execute in the short run and has the vitality to prosper over the long term.

Drawing on the most exhaustive research effort of its kind on organizational effectiveness and change management, Keller and Price put hard science behind their big idea: that the health of an organization is equally as important as its performance. In the book′s foreword, management guru Gary Hamel refers to this notion as "a new manifesto for thinking about organizations."

• The authors illustrate why copying management best practices from other companies is more dangerous than helpful
• Clearly explains how to determine the mutually reinforcing combination of management practices that best fits your organization′s context
• Provides practical tools to achieve superior levels of performance and health through a staged change process: aspire, assess, architect, act, and advance. Among these are new techniques for dealing with those aspects of human behavior that are seemingly irrational (and therefore confound even the smartest leaders), yet entirely predictable

Ultimately, building a healthy organization is an intangible asset that competitors copy at their peril and that enables you to skillfully adapt to and shape your environment faster than others—giving you the ultimate competitive advantage.