Performance at the Limit

Business Lessons from Formula 1 Motor Racing

Mark Jenkins, Ken Pasternak, Richard West

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN:
  9780521449632
• Edition: 2
• eBook ISBN:
  9781107299153
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business Strategy
• Index: Business

Can you imagine your organisation as a Ferrari or a McLaren, a Toyota or a Force India? Your management team as a pit crew? Your sales force as the race team and your marketing and research department as the design studio creating a Formula 1 car? Formula 1 has an estimated turnover of $4bn, employs 50,000 people in more than 30 countries and has a foothold in every major and developing economy. With performance as the central focus of every organization, Performance at the Limit uses the case of Formula 1 motorsport as an example of how business can achieve optimal performance in highly competitive environments where dealing with change effectively is paramount. This second edition builds on the success of the first and contains a wealth of new material, including many more interviews with Formula 1 drivers and other key executives active in the sport.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Performance at the Limit
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Figures
• Tables
• Plates
• Acknowledgements
• Note on the reference system
• The Grand Prix experience
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Why Formula 1 motor racing?
• 3 The performance framework
• 4 The war for talent: the people of Formula 1
• 5 Winning through teamwork
• 6 Capability through partnerships
• 7 The high-performance organisation
• 8 Integrating: effective leadership brings it all together
• 9 Innovating: the drive for continual change
• 10 Transforming: breaking out of the old ways
• 11 Achieving and sustaining performance
• 12 Twelve business lessons from Formula 1 motor racing
• Appendix A: Grand Prix champions 1950–2008
• Appendix B: Grand Prix graveyard 1950–2008
• Appendix C: Interview respondents
• References
• Index