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Accelerating Performance
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Accelerating Performance

How Organizations Can Mobilize, Execute, and Transform with Agility

Colin Price and Sharon Toye
Wiley, 2017

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Colin Price and Sharon Toye, management consultants and organizational behavioral experts, draw upon an extraordinary library of data to create a blueprint companies can follow to change their cultures and accelerate overall improvement. They based their META framework – “Mobilize, Execute and Transform with Agility” – on the idea that businesses exist to fill customer needs, as well as to make a profit, and that they can best fulfill that mission by “reducing drag,” enhancing drive and improving organizational capabilities. The authors provide diagnostics in the book and online, allowing readers to pursue interactive learning even beyond the text’s “superaccelerator” case studies. However, as consultants have been known to do, they tend to attach fancy new names to familiar concepts and to repeat themselves. The META approach may seem overwhelming to execute, but the authors’ abundant charts, graphs, lists and examples are a big help. getAbstract finds that this thoughtful, comprehensive approach to organizational “transformation” outlines a daunting task, but it has a lot to offer those with the resources to build the “right recipe” for change.

Take-Aways

  • A “dysfunctional culture” undermines many organizations. 
  • In order to transform your company, focus on managing, improving and controlling your culture.
  • Having a stronger culture matters more to your competitive advantage than a change in industry or geography or a misplaced emphasis on speed and disruption.

About the Authors

Colin Price and Sharon Toye are leadership consultants at Heidrick & Struggles, where Price is an executive vice president and the global managing partner, and Toye is a partner in the London office. Toye writes for Business Strategy Review, Strategy+Business and Managerial Forensics. To assess whether your firm is a superaccelerator, see AccelerationAssessment.com

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    R. I. 7 months ago
    Insightful
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    F. S. 4 years ago
    La cultura organizacional juega un papel fundamental en el desarrollo de las empresas, culturas solidas y sobre todo con un propósito hacen que esta señal mejor estrategia en todo sentido para la empresa, una empresa con un propósito solido, visible y cercano a los clientes, si bien es cierto toda empresa quiere generar ganancias y rentabilidad tanto para los dueños como para los accionistas, pero son estas estrategias solidas con una misión y propósitos claros las que generaran mayor valor.

    Me quedo con el marco META - "Movilizar, ejecutar y transformar con agilidad" - en la idea de que las empresas existen para satisfacer las necesidades de los clientes, así como para obtener ganancias, y que pueden cumplir mejor esa misión al "reducir la resistencia", mejorando Impulsar y mejorar las capacidades organizativas.