Wheelspin: The Agile Executive's Manifesto - Accelerate Your Growth, Leverage Your Value, Beat Your Competition
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.34 (542 Votes) |
Asin | : | 1614660212 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 344 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2018-01-01 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. About the AuthorAs an organizational Agility Pioneer and Management Innovator. He helps CEOs, Executives and their teams be more fully In the Driving Seat of their businesses and their lives, translating strategy and execution into traction. Mike Richardson specializes in the strategy, execution and traction challenges of small-to-medium sized and fast-moving businesses, business units and corporations. Mike is also an award winning Chair of peer groups with Vistage International and Vistage Speaker to other groups, nationally and internationally
"A Breakthrough on the Agility Agenda" according to Mark H. Long. Mike Richardson has provided the senior executive an excellent guidebook for meeting the agility challenge. Mike successfully makes the case for Agility skills as "must have" capabilities. Mike's recipes are some of the first concrete prescriptions I've seen for meeting the ever-increasing "dynamic complexity" challenges. Mike's book is pioneering Agility best practices.Mark LongFounder, SuperLabAuthor, Financing . "A Book to Chew and Digest" according to Terry Schmidt. Mike Richardson's book delighted me with both interesting stories and provocative new concepts. He provides fresh metaphors on what is in essence a systems thinking approach to strategic management. It's not a breezy read, you have to read actively and think deeply to appreciate and utilize his concepts. As Sir Francis Bacon once put it, "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chew. A Timeless Approach to Business Agility Contemporary business success is not easily earned. Our markets are more fluid and fickle than most of today's executives have ever experienced. Mr. Richardson's Wheel$pin takes these realities and gives today's decision-makers practical tools to navigate in today's indecisive business world. He weaves the essence from previous business works with very recent, tough, decision-making examples like the BP Oil spill
. He helps CEOs, Executives and their teams be more fully In the Driving Seat of their businesses and their lives, translating strategy and execution into traction. Mike Richardson specializes in the strategy, execution and traction challenges of small-to-medium sized and fast-moving businesses, business units and corporations. Mike is also an award winning Chair of peer groups with Vistage International and Vistage Speaker to other groups, nati
This book provides a manifesto for the Why, What, When, Where, How and Who of agility. Using stories from his experiences as a manager, executive and CEO in the Oil and Gas, Aerospace and Automotive industries, Mike Richardson explores agility in everyday terms. He explains how aircraft accidents, the BP Oil Spill and Toyota’s safety recalls relate to your agility challenge in your role in your business. He explains the agility of a jet fighter plane and a jet fighter pilot and how you can employ similar techniques in your organization.