Building the Pyramid: The winning (formula) approach to delivering success on your organisation's growth journey

by John Stein

Overview

Steering an organisation on its unique growth journey is one of the biggest personal challenges facing all leaders. Although the end goal, the destination may stay the same, the conditions experienced on the journey will be different within six months, and different again within a year.

Why? Because internal and external issues and events will constantly change the commercial landscape in which the organisation operates in.

Navigating the landscape has become the new core requirement of the 21st century leader. To deliver success, a more flexible, adaptable leadership approach is needed to keep everyone connected with the organisation on track - a framework that adapts to changing conditions on the journey.

Building the Pyramid demonstrates the winning (formula)® framework in action, through the use of a simple story set in ancient Egypt. It is an original interpretation of the challenges facing leaders and how success can be achieved.

Great leaders are great storytellers and the storytelling format has been cleverly used to describe the growth journey and the important lessons all leaders should learn.

The pyramid is used as a metaphor for growth and the direct correlation between the Pharaoh and the modern-day leader's journey are powerfully communicated.

Lessons learned on the Pharaoh's journey including how to:
- Attract, recruit and retain talent
- Lead the 'change' required to deliver success
- Harness the power of vision and values
- Increase levels of engagement across the organisation
- Build a positive workplace culture
- Align strategy to operational performance
- Inspire others to maximise their potential

The book also includes practical checklists, development models, journey maps and other useful tips and pieces of advice.

More importantly, Building the Pyramid demonstrates how to successfully navigate colleagues on the journey towards the creation of a more agile, successful and sustainable organisation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780954713423
Publisher:	TWF Publications
Publication date:	03/06/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

John Stein is the founder of the winning (formula)® and a champion of growth. He is recognised as a leading authority on the human performance issues facing organisations on the growth journey, and has dedicated his career to working with leaders and their teams to build agile, successful and sustainable organisations. In a world of constantly changing commercial landscapes, he focuses on developing the navigation skills of the 21st century leader. He is described as an ‘organisational lighthouse keeper’ by his clients as a result of the knowledge, support and guidance he is able to offer them on their unique journey. He has worked with small, medium-size and large organisations and has the rare privilege of experiencing the growth journey with ambitious founders, entrepreneurs, chief executives, directors and their teams. His leadership, growth, change and organisational development experience and insight has helped many organisations to produce spectacular results. The winning (formula)® has successfully supported leaders with business start-ups, company turnarounds, commercial restructuring, mergers, acquisitions, management buy-outs and private equity investment. John is an expert storyteller and an award-winning practitioner and uses a blend of research data, humour, pragmatism and commonsense to inspire others to maximise their potential.