Revival of the Fittest: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Managers Remake Them
Language: English
Published by Harvard Business Review Press, 2003
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- Title
- Revival of the Fittest: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Managers Remake Them
- Author
- Donald N. Sull
- Publisher
- Harvard Business Review Press
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Very Good
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1578519934
- ISBN 13
- 9781578519934
- Item weight
- 1.15 pounds
Its a familiar story: A company rises to become an industry leader. Competitors try to emulate it. Analysts rave about it. The CEOs picture is splashed across magazine covers. Then the company stumbles, profits erode, and the stock plummets. How does this happen? Why do good companies so often go bad? More important, what can you do to prevent it from happening to your company?
In Revival of the Fittest, Donald N. Sull takes a provocative look at corporate failure and proposes a practical new model for effecting change that can vastly increase your organizations lifespan. Ironically, argues Sull, leaders sow the seeds of failure during a companys most successful times, when they make a set of commitmentswhether to a core strategy, a key customer, or an innovative manufacturing methodthat constitute the companys success formula. Managers become so married to the formula that they cant divorce themselves from it when the competitive situation changes. They respond to the future by doing more of what worked in the pasta phenomenon Sull calls "active inertia."
Based on extensive global research into successful and failed transformations across many industries, Revival of the Fittest introduces a three-step model for making transforming commitmentsactions that prevent managers from reinforcing old behaviors in the face of change. Sull identifies five areas in which transforming commitments can be anchoredstrategic frames, processes, relationships, resources, and valuesand provides diagnostic tests, hands-on tools, and real company examples to show how managers can:
Gauge their companys susceptibility to active inertia
Determine which commitment is right for a specific situation
Appoint the best person to lead the charge
Ensure that the new commitment sticks
Avoid common mistakes that can sabotage the transformation effort
Weigh the personal risks associated with leading corporate change
In an unpredictable marketplace, commitments can make and break a company. But Sull shows that corporate demise is not inevitable. Through transforming commitments, revival of the fittest is possibleand managers can make the difference.
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