Meetings can be a waste of time for a number of reasons: no agenda, poor discipline, no follow-up, and no focus. This book presents five different meeting formats to follow and gives us a good understanding of when each is appropriate. A good read in Lencioni’s typical “fable” format.
n the words of the authors “the number one risk factor in any organization is lack of accurate information. This applies to assessing communications strategy customer costs and customer profitability. This book also contains an excellent list of value metrics for different parts of the organization.
Bill Davidson presents an excellent vision of how senior teams can work together and develop breakthrough strategies and objectives for firms.
This book is a must read for any firm that is getting involved in reverse auctions or aggressive bidding situations with customers. It outlines how many firms win the order but lose in the long run.
Bob Cross is the father of yield management. This books describes his early work with the airlines and how the tactic has evolved with use.
This book outlines the basics for making programs “sticky” in organizations, a great way to avoid the “program of the month” syndrome.
George Day outlines the differences in “top down” vs. bottom-up strategic process and which is needed for various market conditions.
This excellent book reviews the basics of organic organizations and why they are needed in today’s fast-moving competitive markets. This is the second read for firms evolving to a bottoms-up strategic process.
One of the best firms in long-term “contingency planning” is Shell Oil. This book provides an inside view on what Shell did to achieve such ground-breaking capabilities.