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John Zenger & Joseph R. Folkman – SPEED : HOW LEADERS ACCELERATE SUCCESSFUL EXECUTION
John Zenger & Joseph R. Folkman – SPEED : HOW LEADERS ACCELERATE SUCCESSFUL EXECUTION
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SPEED : HOW LEADERS ACCELERATE SUCCESSFUL EXECUTION

John H. Zenger, Joseph R. Folkman
BRAND NEW, HARDCOVER
John H. Zenger, Joseph R. Folkman
BRAND NEW, HARDCOVER

RM30.00

Seizing & Upgrading The Competitive Advantage By Building Speed Into Your Leadership DNA

ISBN 9781259837388
Book Condition BRAND NEW
Format HARDCOVER
Publisher MC Graw Hill
Publication Date 16/12/2016
Pages 224
Weight 0.51 kg
Dimension 23.5 × 15.5 × 2 cm
Retail Price RM129.43
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Seize the competitive advantage by building speed into your leadership DNA
 
It’s no secret that the pace of change in business today is unprecedented. Leaders who act quickly and inspire others to do the same are the ones who ultimately win the day. Speed reveals essential leadership qualities you can use to improve speed and ultimately drive organizational effectiveness.
 
During the last few decades, speed has increased dramatically in daily business activity. Speed in business is partly a reflection of the increase in speed in every area of modern life. In order to stay competitive and profitable, companies must improve the speed at which they operate and make crucial decisions.


Today, competition is fiercer than ever as companies all over the world vie to be the first to market new products and services. The first-to-market advantage nearly always results in a dominant share of that market. But, can an organization move quickly if its leaders and professionals move slowly?
 
Drawn from extensive data and field research, Speed reveals eight essential behaviors that anyone can adopt to improve speed and drive organizational effectiveness. Jack Zenger and Joe Folkman draw from their firm’s database of over one million 360 assessments of about 80,000 leaders, to show how leaders can provide optimum quality in the quickest time.
 
The rapid pace at which change occurs in business today is unprecedented. Speed has become a major source of competitive advantage.Leaders who act quickly and inspire others to do the same are the ones who ultimately win the day. But achieving increased levels of speed is not always easy.
 
In other words, business is moving faster, and leaders at all levels need to know how to pick up the pace. As the demand for quantity goes up, the demand for quality doesn’t go down. Leaders need a new approach to improving both of these capabilities—simply moving faster doesn’t make leaders more effective.
 
Culled from the data of one million 360-degree feedback assessments, Speed provides valuable insights into the qualities that make a leader successful and productive. Jack Zenger and Joe Folkman reveal eight essential leadership behaviors shown to improve performance and ultimately drive organizational effectiveness.
 
The authors will help you assess the pace at which you work and determine how you stack up against others in their firm’s database. You’ll discover tactics for speeding up critical elements of your day and learn how you can use the eight companion behaviors ― including innovation, develop courage, initiate action, and set stretch goals― to help you increase your speed.
 
It is the extensive research on the leadership competencies of thousands of leaders worldwide is amazing and yields very useful information, with a more comprehensive and in-depth understanding of being an effective leader with fast performance.
 
Leadership experts Jack Zenger and Joe Folkman share valuable insights gleaned from one million 360-degree feedback assessments of more than 75,000 leaders. Repeatedly, speed was shown to be a powerful predictor of a leader’s effectiveness. As the authors demonstrate, speed is produced not by frantic activity but by skillful execution of several key behaviors.
 
Step by step, they show how to increase your own speed, anticipate trends and be more productive. Speed gives you a much-needed competitive advantage in business and in life.
 
The speed at which the book refers is the leader’ ability to reduce the time of valuing some circumstance, to see a trend emerging, to improve procedures, to identify a problem and to respond (effective execution) before the others. This is reflected both in the effectiveness of the leader and in the success of the organization, whose sales grow and have higher operating profit.
 
The first part of the book has interesting statistics comparing the competencies of leaders with other attributes that can participate in its effectiveness speed. It is not only about being fast in our work, but about doing things well and accurately.
 
Organizations benefit and are most successful when they focus on strategic speed and delivering value. It seems the leadership speed increase engagement, retention, discretionary effort, and greater contribution to the organization.
 
The second part contains tactics to increase leadership speed as the authors consider that it is possible for anyone to develop it. Some of the tactics mentioned are, for example, how to maintain brief positive positive interactions, fast-paced and more efficient meetings, make things simpler, drive self-confidence.
 
The third part (which I found to be the most interesting) deals with 8 specific behaviors that, as part of a Training, are correlated and can increase the optimal operative speed, and also the combination of them can have powerful results, such as the Knowledge and expertise enables a person to move faster.
 
It is important to have a balance between speed and quality of what is done, as they seem to oppose each other, but as a leader should not lean only for one of them.
 
Here are a few key evidence-based findings documented in Speed: How Leaders Accelerate Successful Execution:
◆ When asked “if this organization were able to move faster would it substantially influence our success,” 69 percent of 5,100 people agreed and 77 percent of top management agreed.
◆ When either doing things fast or doing things right is a strength (rated at or above the 75th percentile) the probability of a leader being in the top 10 percent is only 2 or 3 percent. However, when both are rated as strengths that probability shoots up to 96 percent.
◆ Correlating pace survey results and stress levels showed that stress is cut in half when people increase their speed.
◆ Leaders rated in the top 10 percent on speed had direct reports with engagement levels in the top quartile.
◆ The highest leadership speed correlates to the highest annual performance ratings.
The slowest leaders were nearly four times more likely to be terminated than their fastest peers.
 
Speed provides plenty of practical tips and practices to increase speed such as chapters on “Speeding Up Your Day,” “Modeling Speed,” and — the oh so vital — “Accelerate Meetings.” A key element to increasing leadership speed and effectiveness is cross-training. ZF analyzed 360 feedback data from 728,328 bosses, peers, direct reports, and others for 52,000 leaders across 49 behaviors.
 
They statistically correlated the behaviors of leaders operating at optimal speed and found eight companion behaviors to increase effectiveness:
① Innovating
② Exhibiting strategic perspective
③ Displaying courage
④ Setting stretch goals
⑤ Communicating powerfully
⑥ Bringing external focus
⑦ Taking initiative
⑧ Possessing knowledge and expertise
 
Eight chapters (one for each of these companion behaviors) then provide application tips and examples. A paradox of a highly effective and faster leader is he or she can often be the least stressed and the most balanced.
 
Speed concludes with a chapter on life balance and discusses when to go fast and when to go slow. By speeding up in the right places we can create the space to slow down and enjoy life more. Speed is a well-researched, practical, and easy read. It’s a timely book for today’s leadership and organizational changes, challenges and opportunities.
 
The book helps you assess the speed at which you work and make decisions and provides calibration regarding how you compare to 7,000 others in the authors’ database. It then gives you tactics for speeding up critical elements of your day and, finally, explains how you can use the eight companion behaviors-including innovation, develop courage, initiate action, and set stretch goals–that help leaders to increase their speed.
 
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Table of Contents :
Acknowledgements
 
Part I Need for Speed
1. Speed Matters
2. Your Speedometer
3. Speed Laws
4. Speed Traps
5. Organizational Benefits from Leadership Speed
 
Part II Tactics to Increase Leadership Speed
6. Speeding Up Your Day
7. Accelerate Meetings
8. Modeling Speed
 
Part III The Cross-Training Approach to Increasing Speed
9. Companion Behaviors for Leadership Speed
10. Innovating
11. Exhibiting Strategic Perspective
12. Displaying Courage
13. Setting Stretch Goals
14. Communicating Powerfully
15. Bringing External Focus
16. Taking Initiative
17. Possessing Knowledge and Expertise
 
Conclusion: Speed and the Balanced Life
 
Appendix: Research Methodology Notes
 
Index
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