Powerhouse
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Powerhouse

Insider Accounts into the World's Top High-performance Organizations

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Powerhouse

Insider Accounts into the World's Top High-performance Organizations

About this book

DISTINGUISHED FAVOURITE: Independent Press Awards 2017Why are the New Zealand All Blacks the best rugby team in the world? How does the Kirov Ballet produce generation after generation of exceptional ballerinas? How did Southwest Airlines evolve from being an idiosyncratic Texan airline to become one of the most successful businesses internationally? How does the Finnish School Education System deliver great results by breaking conventions? Powerhouse uncovers the performance secrets of some of the most impressive organizations around the world and reveals the key principles they have in common to enable any business to raise their own bar. To understand what makes these organizations great, MacNeice and Bowen have conducted immersive and personal research; investigating their culture, interviewing their leaders and observing their everyday practice. Despite this diverse range of seemingly contrasting industries - business, sport, technology, finance, the arts - each of these successful institutions share a common bond: they are world-class industry leaders and have repeatedly outperformed their competition. Powerhouse explores what lessons can be learnt from these organizations to provide a unique and in-depth analysis of how enduring high performance can be developed.

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Information

Publisher
Kogan Page
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9780749478315
eBook ISBN
9780749478322
Edition
1

Index

Note: Italics indicate a Figure or Table in the text.
All Blacks see New Zealand All Blacks
Anheuser-Busch Corporation 156
Begum, Mosammat Taslima 1, 2
Berry, Dr Leonard 215
Bhat, Harish 147, 150
Bolton, Jeff 223
Bryant, Vicky 164–65, 167
Carter, Darren 204
Casey, Peter 143
CHAMPIONS model 232–34
see also teams
Churchill, Winston 77
Cliffe, Steve 205
Collins, Jim 187
Covey, Stephen 151
Curtis Bok, Mary Louise 98, 99
Curtis Institute of Music 3, 96–114
art of practising 108–09
background 96, 98
continual self-learning 106–07, 111
‘Curtis on Tour’ 106
feedback-rich culture 107, 108
free tuition policy 99, 100
heritage 111–12
high standards 100, 110
‘learn by doing’ 103–04
mission 102
narrow performance gap 101, 110, 112–14, 198
performance focus 105–06
philosophy 103–04
Powerhouse Performance 97
student-faculty ratio 101
work ethic 109–10
Dacy, Matt 218–19
Delaware North Companies (DNC) Sportservic...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Praise for Powerhouse
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. About the authors
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. 01    Introduction
  8. 02    Grameen Bank: The bank of the villages
  9. 03    MĂ©decins Sans FrontiĂšres: TĂ©moignage – bearing witness to conflict and disaster
  10. 04    Southwest Airlines: Without a heart, it’s just a machine
  11. 05    US Marine Corps: Semper fidelis – always faithful
  12. 06    Curtis Institute of Music
  13. 07    The Finnish state school education system: Candles of the nation
  14. 08    Tata Group: Nation builders
  15. 09    St Louis Cardinals: The birds on the bat
  16. 10    Inside the Mariinsky – the Kirov
  17. 11    New Zealand rugby: Better people make better All Blacks
  18. 12    Mayo Clinic: The three shields of health
  19. 13    Toyota Motor Corporation: Everybody wins
  20. 14    Conclusion: Becoming a performance powerhouse
  21. Index
  22. Copyright