- Focuses on an impressive line-up of well-known organizations from around the world: Barcelona FC, the All Blacks Rugby team, the Finnish State School System, the Curtis Institute of Music, the US marines, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Toyota, the St Louis Cardinals, the Kirov Ballet, the Mayo Clinic, Grameen Bank and South West Airlines
- Includes immersive research, and detailed interviews with organization leaders, to provide a unique and exclusive inside look into how they really work
- Provides a model of how the world's most successful institutions operate and highlights the key capabilities they all share, giving leaders the tools and understanding to transform their own organizations and supercharge their team's performance
Powerhouse
Insider Accounts into the World's Top High-performance Organizations
Deliver outstanding performance that lasts with this inspiring insight into how some of the world's greatest organizations became the best and stay that way.
Key features at a glance
EAN: 9780749478315
Edition: 1
Published:
Format: 234x156
280 pages
About the book
DISTINGUISHED FAVOURITE: Independent Press Awards 2017
Why are the New Zealand All Blacks the best rugby team in the world? How does the Kirov Ballet produce generation after generation of exceptional ballerinas? How did Southwest Airlines evolve from being an idiosyncratic Texan airline to become one of the most successful businesses internationally? How does the Finnish School Education System deliver great results by breaking conventions? Powerhouse uncovers the performance secrets of some of the most impressive organizations around the world and reveals the key principles they have in common to enable any business to raise their own bar.
To understand what makes these organizations great, MacNeice and Bowen have conducted immersive and personal research; investigating their culture, interviewing their leaders and observing their everyday practice. Despite this diverse range of seemingly contrasting industries - business, sport, technology, finance, the arts - each of these successful institutions share a common bond: they are world-class industry leaders and have repeatedly outperformed their competition. Powerhouse explores what lessons can be learnt from these organizations to provide a unique and in-depth analysis of how enduring high performance can be developed.
About the authors
Brian MacNeice is an expert in high performance and is a regular speaker on the topic at business conferences and seminars. Brian regularly runs High Performance workshops for organisations, leadership teams and senior executives. He has advised many blue chip companies in a career spanning almost 20 years across a diverse range of industry sectors. Brian is Managing Director of Kotinos Partners, which is a consultancy that focuses on helping CEOs and Leadership teams deliver sustained high performance.
James Bowen is an expert in strategy and organisational design and a performance consultant with over 15 years of advisory experience. Over the course of his career, James has worked with executive teams of blue-chip companies on a range of engagements with the achievement of step-change performance improvement as their common goal. James is also Managing Director of Kotinos Partners, which is a consultancy that focuses on helping CEOs and Leadership teams deliver sustained high performance.
A fascinating study into some of the world's most awe-inspiring organizations. From insightful interviews and research, MacNeice and Bowen have distilled the essential qualities that lead to high performance down into an actionable and enjoyable read for all business leaders
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