"Where urgency meets execution. This book helps leaders tackle their greatest challenge: turning plans into action, fast."---Walt Macnee, President, International Markets, MasterCard Worldwide" "A refreshing new view on strategy: how leaders can execute strategy through people, and what makes some companies faster and more agile than others."---Isobel Peck, Chief Marketing Officer, Informa" "In Strategic Speed, we finally get the implementation model that needs to go with the strategy."---Lean Schlesinger, President, Babson College" "This book is packed with great insights and practical tools. Read it, use it, and gain strategic speed."---Craig Wortmann, CEO, Experience LLC, and author of What's Your Story?" "The framework, case examples, and tools equip leaders to embrace and execute strategic speed."---Noel Tichy, professor and director, Global Citizenship Initiative at the University of Michigan; and coauthor (with Warren Bennis) of Judgment" "I urge executives everywhere to read this book. It's filled with valuable insights and actionable best practices that every company will benefit from."---Douglas Anderson, President and CEO, Carlson Wagonlit Travel" "Davis, Frechette, and Boswell make things just as Einstein requested: simple, without being simplified. They identify predictable change management traps and provide useful frameworks for avoiding them."---Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, Harvard Business School" "The magic is in the execution. Strategic Speed provides relevant business cases and practical suggestions to create that magic and deliver real outcomes."---Catriona Noble, Managing Director, McDonald's Australia.
Preface
Prologue The Hazards of Speed 1
one Speed: A New View 9
Two The People Factors: Clarity, Unity, Agility 33
The Strategic-Speedometer 50
Three Leaders Affirm Strategies 59
How are you Doing on Affirming Strategies? 81
Four Leaders Drive Initiatives 83
How are you on Doing on Driving Initiatives? 104
Five Leaders Manage Climate 107
How are you Doing on Managing Climate? 128
six Leaders Cultivate Experience 131
How are you Doing on Cultivating Experience? 155
Seven Tools for Achieving Strategic Speed 157
Time/Value Assessment 160
Team Survey 163
Leadership Profile 165
Speed Matrix 170
Epilogue The Future of Speed 173
Appendix A: The Forum Corporation and Economist Intelligence Unit Global Speed Survey 177
Appendix B: The Cultural Aspects of Speed 183
Notes 189
Index 193
About the Authors 203
Overview
"Where urgency meets execution. This book helps leaders tackle their greatest challenge: turning plans into action, fast."---Walt Macnee, President, International Markets, MasterCard Worldwide" "A refreshing new view on strategy: how leaders can execute strategy through people, and what makes some companies faster and more agile than others."---Isobel Peck, Chief Marketing Officer, Informa" "In Strategic Speed, we finally get the implementation model that needs to go with the strategy."---Lean Schlesinger, President, Babson College" "This book is ...