Ready to Compete. Michael Beer

In his decades of working in a variety of corporations, Harvard Business School professor Michael Beer has seen firsthand how organizational silence undermines strategic goals. When employees can’t speak up, senior leaders don’t hear what they need to hear about their company’s ability to compete, and employees themselves lose trust in those leaders and become less committed to change. In Ready to Compete, the author presents the antidote to silence—principles and a time-tested, innovative process for having honest conversations with everyone in your organization. Used by more than eight hundred organizations worldwide, the Strategic Alignment Process has helped leaders in industries as diverse as medical technology, information technology, banking, restaurant chains, and pharmaceuticals hear the hard but necessary truth about the sources of misalignment between their strategies and organizational structures. In addition to step-by-step instructions, Michael Beer offers detailed and illustrative examples of companies that have had honest conversations to great effect. He also demonstrates how to apply this process to a variety of strategic tasks and at different levels throughout the organization. Ready to Compete is the book you should turn to if you want to create winning strategies that can unite your entire company.