Building the Pyramid: The Winning Formula Approach to Delivering Success on Your Organisation's Growth Journey

Building the Pyramid is a CMI Management Book of the Year.

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 include 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.

John Stein is the founder of the winning (formula)® and a champion of growth.

He is widely 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 often described as an organisational lighthouse keeper by his clients and peer group 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 highs and lows of the growth journey with ambitious founders, entrepreneurs, chief executives, directors and their teams.

His leadership, growth, change and organisational development experience and insight has enabled many organisations to produce spectacular results.

Since 1995, the winning (formula)® framework has been used successfully to support leaders with new business start-ups, company turnarounds, commercial restructuring, mergers, acquisitions, management buy-outs and private equity investment.

John is an award winning practitioner, conference speaker and facilitator of leadership away-days and strategy events. He is able to engage with individuals at all levels in any organisation, and uses a unique blend of research data, humour, pragmatism and commonsense to inspire others to maximise their potential.