Leading Your Business Forward: Aligning Goals, People, and Systems for Sustainable Success

by John Pyecha, Shane Yount, Seth Davies

SIMPLE IS BETTER! Businesses today are overwhelmed by complex, expensive, and time-consuming initiatives. These ideas sound great in the boardroom but fail when deployed in the real world. You need a business tool that takes your organization where it needs to go and is so simple and repeatable that anyone can use it. Just like a GPS helps get us where we are going, Leading Your Business Forward lays out a proven but simple process that any business can follow! Using the same five simple steps in every car's global positioning system--Acquiring, Settings, Where To, Recalculating, and Arriving--this book demonstrates just how quickly you can energize and transform your workplace. Leading Your Business Forward utilizes a simple Leadership GPS to show you how

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Matthew Huston · Rating 4 out of 5]

I appreciate the structures presented by the authors and the exploration of how a quality system of processes can positively impact an organization. Using the metaphor of a GPS was very smart as well.

[Phillip Elliott · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a quick read. It uses a gimmick to help the authors build a story line to follow. I could have lived without the GPS named Gabby gimmick.

There was nothing new, nothing earth shaking or ground breaking here. The book talks about goals, accountability and some ideas for systems to align these. The materials have been covered before. They do talk about how important it is to sustain improvements and that is not really covered well elsewhere. The book also has a few case studies to reference. I don't remember seeing this anyplace other than textbooks.

I was given a free copy to read. I read it on a flight from Denver to Minnesota. I'm glad it was free and I'm happy it was quick.