The conventional wisdom about strategy may be leading your company astray. In The Essential Advantage: How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy, Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain...
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Published: 2017
Very few organizations manage their costs for sustainable success. They spend their money on the wrong things or they cut the wrong things for the wrong reasons, ultimately leaving them weaker and unfit to compete. Instead, organizations need to think about their costs strategically, as investments that will fuel their growth, so they put their money where their strategy is. Fit for Growth is a guide for senior executives and middle managers on how to align their company's costs and organization with their strategy so they can grow, create value, and sustainably outperform competitors.
Published: 2016
Winning companies don’t follow conventional wisdom. They apply five acts of unconventional leadership that allow them to close the strategy-to-execution gap. In Strategy That Works, authors Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi reveal the five practices used by today’s winning companies. Packed with tools executives can use for building these practices into their organization, Strategy That Works is a powerful guide to connecting where enterprises aim to go and what they can accomplish.
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