Guiding Growth How Vision Keeps Companies on Course

Name: Guiding Growth How Vision Keeps Companies on Course
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ISBN: 9781578517060

ISBN-10: 1578517060

ISBN-13: 9781578517060

Edition: 2003

Authors: Mark Lipton

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When it comes to sustained success, vision matters more than strategy. Scores of studies have proven this statement, and millions of business leaders believe it. Yet few executives understand what vision is. They embrace the idea, but ignore the implementation-a disconnect that threatens companies striving for growth in a volatile marketplace. Organizational expert Mark Lipton argues that this "believing-doing" gap exists because today's fast-paced world demands short-term fixes-pressuring executives to make tactical decisions that ultimately create larger strategic problems down the road. But Lipton shows that vision has more substance than leaders think-and that it is an essential factor…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Publication date: 12/10/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Another Book about Vision?



Vision and Sustained Growth



Growing with Vision



The Principles of Growth-Guiding Visions



Dangers of Growing without a Vision



The Vision Development Process



Making Vision Work



From Paper to Practice



Forming and Facilitating the Executive Group



Putting the Cult in Culture



Building a Structure That Will Withstand Growth



Aligning People Processes with Your Vision



Creating a Desired Future


Appendix


Notes


Index


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