Start-ups rarely survive their second birthday. Even established firms in the UK and the US average a life of only fifteen years. So how can your company build and sustain success for decades to come?
Professor Alex Hill has conducted thirteen years of groundbreaking research into a clutch of organisations that have outperformed their peers for over 100 years - from NASA to the New Zealand All Blacks, from Eton College and the Royal College of Art to the Royal Marines and the Royal Shakespeare Company. And what he has found is that these very different organisations all share remarkably similar strategies when it comes to building and maintaining excellence and success - strategies that frequently fly in the face of conventional business wisdom.
Here Professor Hill shares the twelve traits that have set these organisations apart for over a century, from the way they analyse success and failure to their approach to finding the best people and the brightest new ideas. In so doing, he identifies the strategies and habits that you can employ in your company to create a strong and stable core and to ensure the same long-term prosperity. In short, he shows you how to build a promising enterprise into an enduring, great organisation.
Product Details
Title:
Centennials
Author:
Alex Hill
Publisher:
Penguin
SKU:
BK0500328
EAN:
9781847942821
Number Of Pages:
304
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback
Release date:
21 March 2024
About Author
Alex is Co-Founder and Director of The Centre for High Performance (a collaboration between senior faculty from the Universities of Kingston, Duke CE, London Business School and Oxford), which is dedicated to helping high-performing organisations develop a stronger and more robust UK economy, society and environment.
He is also a Professor at Kingston University (UK), Educator at Duke Corporate Education (US), and Visiting Professor at Bayes Business School (UK), Gordon Institute of Business Science (South Africa), The Academy of National Economy (Russia) and KEDGE Management School (France) where he teaches on a variety of postgraduate and executive programmes.
The Thinkers50 placed him on their list of 30 management thinkers most likely to shape how future organisations are managed and led. And his research has been widely discussed in the media by the BBC, Daily Mail, Economist, Forbes, Guardian, Huffington Post, Independent, Schools Week, Spectator, Times and Telegraph.
