LEADING YOUR ORGANIZATION TO HIGH PERFORMANCE: A GUIDE FOR EXECUTIVES

In a world characterized by hyper-competition, rapid technological change and globalization, building a high-performance organization is one of the few ways to create a sustainable competitive advantage. Businesses are challenged to create and sustain high performance over time in the face of change and competition in the business environment. In today's business world, it is exceedingly difficult to find sources of sustainable advantage. The best technology is no guarantee of success. Myriad examples abound of superior technologies that lost out to lesser technologies coupled to superior marketing or execution. Beta lost to VHS in video. Informix lost to Oracle in databases. OS2 lost to Windows in operating systems. Blackberry lost to Android and Apple. Tribe Networks and My Space lost to Facebook in social networks. Many established retailers have lost to Amazon. To win consistently in business, or sports, requires a high-performance organization. It requires an environment in which people with diverse needs, preferences, values and capabilities work effectively together to set and achieve goals. It must be a place in which people focus their energy and creativity on superior performance in a context of learning. A High-Performance Organization produces sustained long-term performance. Its financial, product and service quality and customer service results are consistently superior to its competitors. It anticipates and adapts quickly to changes and trends in its business environment. It innovates in both the products and services it provides to its customers and its internal processes and practices. Its internal effectiveness and efficiency allow it to use speed as a competitive weapon. It continuously improves. The CEO and the senior team are responsible for the strategic health of the business. Strategic health is an organizational state in which short and long-term goals, objectives and actions are balanced and adaptability, innovation, continuous learning and improvement, and speed are pursued as paths to superior results. It is the process of attracting, energizing, focusing, aligning and retaining people to accomplish results and build a highly effective organization. Your daily behavior and the daily behavior of your executive team is the primary factor that drives the effectiveness and performance of your organization. Focusing your attention on leading effectively will create the conditions required to build a high-performance organization. It will also motivate people to create and sustain a superior customer experience. Over the past forty plus years, I have pursued this interest as a business executive and a consultant to business executives. My purpose in writing this book is to share what I have learned about creating and sustaining high performance with you.

Author: A Lad Burgin Ph D, A. Burgin

Publisher: Independently published

Publication Date: Nov 30, 2019

Number of Pages: 132 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 167317065X

ISBN-13: 9781673170658