Is Silence Killing Your Strategy? In his thirty years of working in
corporations, Harvard Business School professor Michael Beer has
witnessed firsthand how organizational silence derails strategic
objectives. When employees can't speak truth to power, senior
leaders don't hear what they need to hear about their company's
fitness to compete, and employees lose trust in those leaders and
become less committed to change. In Fit to Compete, Beer presents
an antidote to silence--principles and a time-tested innovative
process for holding honest conversations with everyone in your
organization. Used by over eight hundred organizations across the
globe, the strategic fitness process has helped leaders in a
diverse range of industries--including medical technology,
information technology, banking, restaurant chains, and
pharmaceuticals--hear the raw but necessary truth about the sources
of misalignment between their strategies and their organizations.
In addition to step-by-step instructions, Beer offers detailed and
illustrative case studies of companies that have conducted honest
conversations to great effect. He also shows how to apply the
process more broadly to a variety of strategic challenges and at
multiple levels throughout the organization. Practical,
enlightening, and comprehensive, Fit to Compete is the book you
should turn to if you to want create winning strategies that your
entire company will rally behind.
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Thu, 23 Jan 2020 | Review
by: Karren H.
This book feels like it was written primarily for the larger company or corporate rather than a smaller or medium-sized business. The structure of the arguments and the majority of the case studies reflect significant hierarchy, separate functional departments (and roles). There are some references to smaller (50 people) teams,
In essence, the organisation recognises a need to transform. One gets a sense that even where a new strategy has been agreed, moving the organisation along and making the agreed change is an entirely different ball game. The majority of businesses fail in this area. A Strategic Fitness Programme (SFP) is outlined and has many elements. It is clear that this is a difficult process, requiring courage and extraordinary leadership skills. They may have to overcome issues such as; unclear strategy, ineffectiveness in the senior team, leadership styles, poor coordination, inadequate leadership development or inadequate vertical communication (or a combination of these). Yet, throughout the book, the importance of honest, collective and public conversations is emphasised and appears to be a key aspect to bringing about the change businesses are needing to make. The value of outside consultants to mediate, problem solve and keep the process moving forward is also evident.
It is an in-depth and well- researched book walking the reader through a detailed process and providing action plans. Somehow the style (with my business focus on teams of fewer than 30 people) didn't quite gel, though the principles outlined .make perfect sense.
This thanks to Netgalley, and the author for my advance reader copy. The opinions expressed in this review ae entirely my own.
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