Breakthrough will help executives lead their teams to peerless, unsurpassed performance by helping them define a grand goal and engage the organization to pursue and achieve that goal, no matter how difficult the challenge seems. Based on a ten-year landmark study of more than seventy bold, breakthrough companies such as IBM, Dayton-Hudson, Progressive Insurance, EMC, American Standard, Charles Schwab, and Dell Computer, the book shows how these remarkable companies adopted outrageous objectives and then did what it takes to achieve remarkable results.Chapter One: Breakthrough Dynamics.
Chapter Two: The Enterprise Principle.
Chapter Three: The Strategic Setting.
Chapter Four: Champions of Breakthrough.
Chapter Five: The Mindset of the Market Leader.
Chapter Six: Advice to Incumbents.
Chapter Seven: Aim, Ready, Fire.
Chapter Eight: The Leadership Factor.
Appendix I: Breakthrough Profiles.
Appendix II: Breakthrough Performance.
Post Face.
Index.
Walking in the footsteps of Jim Collins's business bestseller Good to Great, Davidson (The Amazing Race) offers a prescription for corporate greatness based on his study of more than 7 high-performing companies. But while Good to Great focused on lesser-known firms, this volume looks to blue chips like IBM, Dell, Schwab, Caterpillar and ADS. Davidson's premise is that breakthrough companies achieve what they do by setting outrageous objectives and pursuing them with single-minded intensity. The go-for-broke, swing-for-the-bleachers approach that he favors means that there are plenty of intriguing innovations on display. For example, Progressive Insurance vowed to deliver the fastest claim resolution to auto policyholders and-taking that idea to its outrageous conclusion - broke the industry mold by l$
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