Breakthrough: How Great Companies Set Outrageous Objectives and Achieve Them

by Bill Davidson

Overview

Breakthrough will help executives lead their teams to peerless, unsurpassed performance by helping them define a grand goal and engage the organization to pursue and achieve that goal, no matter how difficult the challenge seems. Based on a ten-year landmark study of more than seventy bold, breakthrough companies such as IBM, Dayton-Hudson, Progressive Insurance, EMC, American Standard, Charles Schwab, and Dell Computer, the book shows how these remarkable companies adopted outrageous objectives and then did what it takes to achieve remarkable results.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471454403
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	11/03/2003
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.34(w) x 9.43(h) x 0.89(d)

About the Author

BILL DAVIDSON was a tenured professor of management at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California from 1985 to 1998. He is the author of several other books on management, including The Amazing Race and 2020 Vision (with Stan Davis), which was selected as Best Business Book of the Year by Fortune magazine in 1992. He is Chairman of MESA Research (www.mesaresearchgroup.com), a strategy and leadership services group.

Table of Contents

Chapter One: Breakthrough Dynamics.

Chapter Two: The Enterprise Principle.

Chapter Three: The Strategic Setting.

Chapter Four: Champions of Breakthrough.

Chapter Five: The Mindset of the Market Leader.

Chapter Six: Advice to Incumbents.

Chapter Seven: Aim, Ready, Fire.

Chapter Eight: The Leadership Factor.

Appendix I: Breakthrough Profiles.

Appendix II: Breakthrough Performance.

Post Face.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

"Provides a wealth of practical, helpful information for today's health care manager at all levels of the organization. His insights get right to the heart of effective managerial problem solving." (Frederick Malphurs, director, VA Upstate New York Healthcare Network, Albany New York)

"Succeeds in combining solid academic knowledge with real world experience. This is an essential book for the healthcare manager as a text and as a day-to-day guide for most management situations." (Paul J. Hensler, administrator, UCSD Thornton Hospital, University of California, San Diego)

"Don Lombardi's manual has always been our organization's source for emergency guidance." (Msgr. Dennis J. Mahon, CEO, Catholic Community Services, Newark, New Jersey)

"this excellent resource deserves a place on your bookshelf." (The Healthcare Collaborator, 1/02)

"This book provides practical and realistic solutions to serious problems that all managers face throughout their tenure. It is extremely useful in reassessing analytical and personnel management skills, and provides keen insights in addressing common and complex problems that all healthcare managers must confront daily."—Dale W. Davenport, Creighton University Medical Center

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