"Where urgency meets execution."
Walt Macnee, President, International Markets, MasterCard International
An exclusive focus on pace and process often leads to only superficial speed: lots of activity, but little forward motion. To achieve “strategic speed”—implementing strategies both quickly and well—leaders need to make people the key ingredient in their success formula.
Strategic Speed provides real-world examples—from companies as diverse as Tata Sky, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Ameriprise, and Fender Guitars—showing these practices in action. And it’s packed with tools and assessments for diagnosing where your execution efforts are in trouble and choosing specific actions for accelerating results in your firm.
About the Authors
Jocelyn Davis, Executive Vice President, Research and Development, has consulted to companies in a range of industries, including firms such as GE, Eli Lilly, Unilever, and Microsoft. With a background in research and instructional design, she is often called upon to design organization-wide change programs and learning systems that get thousands of leaders and employees to embrace new strategies, learn new skills, and adopt new behaviors—so that strategy execution is accelerated.
Jocelyn has conceived and written numerous research studies and training courses, doubling the size of Forum’s content library over the past 7 years. Her articles have been published in Harvard Business Review, Emerald Insights, Chief Learning Officer, and many training industry journals. In addition to Strategic Speed, she is co-author of Forum’s Principles of Learning: A Guidebook for Advancing Performance in Today’s Workplace.
A dynamic and engaging speaker, she is frequently invited to deliver keynotes and workshops at industry conferences and company meetings on the topics of strategy execution, workplace learning, and leadership development.
Jocelyn lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband and daughter.
Henry M Frechette Jr. has provided organizational learning consulting and research services to companies that strive to improve performance through people. While at Forum, Henry ran the client research groups and was instrumental pioneering Forum's organizational climate interventions and feedback-based leadership development initiatives.
Edwin H. Boswell has been advising senior executive teams involved in major organizational transformation initiatives for more than 25 years. In addition to his 21 years with Forum, Ed led sales and service teams for IBM and served as an organizational consultant for Human Systems. Mr. Boswell is a recognized leader in the field of performance improvement and is a frequent speaker on issues relating to leadership and organizational performance.
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