Dragon Slaying is Mark’s book which introduces a practical theory of management based on both the need to understand the ‘trade-offs’ necessary to attain optimum performance and five fundamental principles, arguably irrefutable laws, of management:
Understanding the purpose of the
organisation
Confirming the “benefits” and “capabilities" you deliver to your clients and that add value for them
Understanding an organisation as a network of connected parts
Establishing how the various parts of your organisation work together in sequence in order to deliver that value
Understanding people and why they behave as they do
Recognising that people work IN a system and the job of a leader is to work ON the system, to improve it with their help
Understanding variation; a real understanding of the key performance indicators and their predictive abilities
Understanding how the performance of all individuals, teams, departments and functions, in fact, the performance of all processes and systems will vary over time
Understanding how an organisation learns and improves
Learning how to bring all of these ideas together in order to drive real and sustainable improvement resulting in:
- Better strategies
- Better systems
- Better performance measurement
- Engaged people delivering
- Better results
Mark and the Statius team are practitioners, so the book is practical, easy to read and packed with examples that explode a variety of management myths.
Mark is already planning the second edition which will include separate chapters with detailed organisation by organisation case studies, so, as Keith Faulkner CEO of Working Links says in the foreword of the book “Don’t just be a passive reader, engage with us and become part of the story!” Yours could be one of the case studies in the second edition.
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