Beyond Performance
Scott Keller and Colin Price · WileyHow organisations build lasting competitive advantage by improving their health alongside their performance.
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Thirteen papers by Colin Price and Sharon Toye, built on their research into hundreds of companies. Each takes one problem leaders face, sets out what the research says, and ends with what to do about it. Read them here or download them, find the books below, or watch and listen.
All thirteen papers
- Achieving HypergrowthAnd maintaining the momentum.ReadPDF
- Challenging TeamsOut of many levers to improve team performance, one stands out.ReadPDFOur method
- Complexity CostsWhy organisational friction erodes profit and cash, and seven ways to reduce it.ReadPDF
- Human SystemsArticleAgency in an agentic world: what leadership becomes when intelligence is abundant.ReadPDF
- Intelligence PaysHow leaders turn cheaper intelligence into better work and lasting value.ReadPDF
- Leadership ActivatedHow private equity portfolio companies can activate the leaders below the Exco.ReadPDF
- Leadership AlphaThe purpose of leadership is to accelerate performance.ReadPDF
- Managing MergersHow the top team turns the deal into customer and economic value.ReadPDF
- Paradox UnlockedHow leaders turn competing demands into better performance.ReadPDF
- Under PressureWhy capable leaders struggle in private, and why their organisations should help them stop.ReadPDF
- Silo LogicWhy sensible people protect their patch, and how to change the pattern.ReadPDF
- Speed WinsHow to intelligently increase your corporate metabolic rate.ReadPDFOur method
- Strategy LostTurning strategic intent into purposeful execution.ReadPDF
Articles by Colin and Sharon
- The psychology of change managementDame Emily Lawson and Colin Price · McKinsey Quarterly. Lasting change needs four conditions: a purpose people accept, systems that reinforce it, the skills to act on it and role models who live it.ReadPDF
- Leadership and the art of plate spinningColin Price · McKinsey Quarterly. How senior executives balance people and priorities by working with the paradoxes of organisational life.ReadPDF
- Health Inc.Colin Price, Sharon Toye et al · Business Strategy Review. Organisational health, the ability to align, execute and renew faster than the competition, and the nine factors that determine it: a health check.ReadPDF
- How leaders and their teams can stop executive hubrisSharon Toye and Jonathan Mackey · strategy+business. Why excessive confidence at the top is hard to spot and costly, and how boards, CEOs and their teams can build a habit of challenge and humility.ReadPDF
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How to intelligently increase your corporate metabolic rate.
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Selected books
Accelerating Performance
Colin Price and Sharon Toye · WileyThe research behind APC: how organisations mobilise, execute and transform with agility, and why the fastest outperform the rest.
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Mergers: Leadership, Performance and Corporate Health
David Fubini, Colin Price and Maurizio Zollo · Palgrave MacmillanLeadership, performance and corporate health in the integration of organisations.
Vertical Take-Off
Sir Richard Evans and Colin Price · Nicholas BrealeyThe inside story of British Aerospace's recovery from crisis to world class.
The Paradox Principles
The Price Waterhouse Change Integration Team · IrwinHow high-performance companies manage chaos, complexity and contradiction to achieve superior results.