Summary
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This book skillfully expands on the popular children's fable ‘Who will Bell the Cat?’ to derive holistic solutions for the entire gamut of business strategy issues—from strategy formation to execution.
The author takes the reader through the various stages of strategy management using a lively narrative that parallels the fable: Bell the Cat! (Evolve Business Strategy), How to Bell the Cat (Strategic Management Techniques), Who Will Bell the Cat? (Locate Right People), Make People Capable to Bell the Cat (Develop Peoples Capabilities), and Wow! The Cat is Belled (Align and Execute).
A ‘cat’alyst for change, the book challenges business managers and management students to question long-held beliefs about strategy management and to think beyond established norms. Embellished with thought-provoking quotes by great thinkers, the lessons in the book are both easy to understand and practice.
Develop Performing Culture
Develop Performing Culture
Developing a ‘performing culture’ is as important as developing the performing people. In the absence of a right culture, even the performing people will grow non-performing in the course of time. Any amount of coaching, counselling and training people will go to waste if a performing culture is not developed.
Performing people and a performing culture, both are equally important in strategic management. If an organization is lacking in them, the leader must do something about it. Equally important are various systems and processes. While culture and systems are like the software of the organization, the organizational structure is like hardware. It is wrong to assume that only values create a good organizational culture. Values show the path of righteousness in ...