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Every Team Actually Doing Business Better
by Darren Ashby, Atif Sheikh
A business on a mission is a truly remarkable thing.When every team is ready, willing and able to run through any wall to deliver your purpose and strategy, the commercial and societal gains are enormous. Very few business get anywhere near that level. Particularly now with most struggling to adapt to unprecedented change in the world around them.This is a book born from a frustration with how strategy, change and transformation are done in business, and the quality of advice out there. Darren and Atif started businessfourzero almost a decade ago to help clients 'actually' unlock new levels of commercial performance whilst simultaneously delivering massive positive societal impact.The practical experiences and tools shared are born from battle scars, both where things went wrong, but crucially from what we now know works every time. We have been inspired by learning alongside leaders and teams at the top, middle and frontline of incredible businesses around the
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Conclusion: A Call to Action for Leadership Teams
In our Conclusion, we talk about the imperative to lead as a team. The importance of your leadership role in the transformation will become startlingly clear. Will you lead the change by embodying a purpose-driven mindset? Will you create meaningful conversations around strategy? Will you be the first to change your behaviours?
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Chapter Six: Agency Everywhere
Chapter 6 explores the power of collective agency as an unstoppable force in your business. We look at what can switch it off and what can build and sustain it over time.
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Chapter Five: High Standards
Chapter 5 discusses the importance of every team setting a high bar for both strategy and behaviours. We examine what it takes to realise transformational change at scale.
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Chapter Four: Deep Commitment
In Chapter 4, we explain why you should be obsessed with commitment rather than engagement, and how you can create, deepen and sustain that commitment across every team.
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Part Two: Every Team on a Mission to Execute Brilliantly
In Part Two, we help you get your teams actually delivering the purpose, executing the strategy and living new behaviours in the work.
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Chapter Three: Behaviours That Unlock Execution
In Chapter 3, we take a look at the behaviours that unlock both pace and quality of execution. We explore why values aren’t good at creating change, and how to get super-focused on behaviours if you want to shift the performance of your teams.
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Chapter Two: Strategy That Makes Action Inevitable
In Chapter 2, we examine strategy and why it often fails to inspire execution or drive a change in performance. In this chapter, we cut through the lofty business-speak and reveal how we guide leaders through a purposeful strategic-thinking process.
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Chapter One: Purpose That Compels Better Business
In Chapter 1, we look at the purpose of a business and how it gets expressed. We examine how to articulate purpose in a way that compels your teams to do business better. We study examples and provide practical ways you can create a renewed sense of purpose in your business just by getting clear on your reason for existing and expressing it in a way that connects for your teams.
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Part One: A Blueprint For Doing Business Better
In Part One, we ask you to envision a new future for your business. We’ll look at purpose, strategy and behaviours, and how these three aspects of a business must work well together to create powerful change.
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Introduction: The Case For Change
In the Introduction, we explain why we think all corporations need to do business better and why it needs to happen now. We’ll make the case for rapid change.
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Authors Note and How to Use This Book
We begin by discussing why we wrote this book, our ambition in doing so, and how you can get the most out of reading it.
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A business on a mission is a truly remarkable thing.When every team is ready, willing and able to run through any wall to deliver your purpose and strategy, the commercial and societal gains are enormous. Very few business get anywhere near that level. Particularly now with most struggling to adapt to unprecedented change in the world around them.This is a book born from a frustration with how strategy, change and transformation are done in business, and the quality of advice out there. Darren and Atif started businessfourzero almost a decade ago to help clients 'actually' unlock new levels of commercial performance whilst simultaneously delivering massive positive societal impact.The practical experiences and tools shared are born from battle scars, both where things went wrong, but crucially from what we now know works every time. We have been inspired by learning alongside leaders and teams at the top, middle and frontline of incredible businesses around the
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