Book description
Most executives have a big, hairy, audacious goal. But they install layers of stultifying bureaucracy that prevent them from realizing it. In this article, Jim Collins introduces the catalytic mechanism, a simple yet powerful managerial tool that helps turn lofty aspirations into reality. The crucial link between objectives and results, this tool is a galvanizing, nonbureaucratic way to turn one into the other. But the same catalytic mechanism that works in one organization won’t necessarily work in another. So, to help readers get started, Collins offers some general principles that support the process of building one effectively.
Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- The Harvard Business Review Classics Series
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Five Parts of a Whole
- Characteristic 1: A catalytic mechanism produces desired results in unpredictable ways
- Characteristic 2: A catalytic mechanism distributes power for the benefit of the overall system, often to the great discomfort of those who traditionally hold power
- Characteristic 3: A catalytic mechanism has teeth
- Characteristic 4: A catalytic mechanism ejects viruses
- Characteristic 5: A catalytic mechanism produces an ongoing effect
- Getting Started
- Castles in the Air
- About The Author
- Article Summary
Product information
- Title: Turning Goals into Results (Harvard Business Review Classics)
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2017
- Publisher(s): Harvard Business Review Press
- ISBN: 9781633692596
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