
Shockproof
How to Hardwire Your Business for Lasting Success
Wiley (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 26. November 2010
Book
Hardback
276 pages
978-0-470-87254-3 (ISBN)
Description
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 deliver results
* Build a workforce that is adaptive, inherently innovative, and energized by the rewards of success
As priorities change and challenges arise throughout the ebbs and flows of the economic cycle, let Shockproof guide you to reinvent your company and deliver sustained profitable growth in good times and bad.
More details
Product info
GB
Edition
1., Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paper over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
Charts: 10 B&W, 0 Color
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
576 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-470-87254-3 (9780470872543)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

Debra Jacobs | Garrett Sheridan | Juan Pablo González
Shockproof
How to Hardwire Your Business for Lasting Success
E-Book
12/2010
Wiley
€16.99
Available for download

Debra Jacobs | Garrett Sheridan | Juan Pablo González
Shockproof
How to Hardwire Your Business for Lasting Success
E-Book
12/2010
Wiley
€16.99
Available for download
Persons
Axiom Consulting Partners' Debra Jacobs, Garrett Sheridan, and Juan Pablo González have dedicated their careers to helping leaders and their organizations achieve their strategic objectives. As executives, advisors, speakers, and authors, they have helped clients across the globe align business strategy, organization design, and talent to improve execution and business results. Each has a deep appreciation of the complexity within today's business environment and what it takes for leaders to guide their organizations toward lasting success.
Content
Foreword (Paul Jacobs).
Prologue A Shockproof Future.
Chapter 1 Beware the Big Blue Catfish.
Chapter 2 Headlines or Tombstones?
Chapter 3 Make Sure the Strategy Is "Not Wrong".
Chapter 4 Beyond Boxes and Lines.
Chapter 5 Carbon Paper? Really?!
Chapter 6 Connections and Calibrations.
Chapter 7 Be the Leader You Seek.
Chapter 8 Pass the Salt.
Notes.
Acknowledgments.
Index.