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A radical new leadership strategy to transform business as we know it-from a dream team of INSEAD professors and mega-bestselling author Ram Charan
The business landscape is littered with the wreckage of companies that crashed and burned when an apocalypse came-in the shape of new competitive technologies, upstart entrants, demographic shifts, and new world orders. Who can feel safe in firestorm change?
The authors of The Phoenix Encounter Method don't advise safety. In fact, their method of leadership thinking requires you to imagine burning your business to the ground-throwing yourself into a firestorm change-and turning the upheaval to your organization's advantage. It can then rise, phoenix-like, from the ashes, stronger and more powerful than ever.
Written with a sense of urgency and purposefully radical provocation, The Phoenix Encounter Method represents the forward thinking of legendary business guru Ram Charan and professors from the senior global leadership program of INSEAD, one of the world's top graduate business schools. The resulting methodology, based on analysis of thousands of articles, studies, reports, and academic and business practice, was field tested in real-life Phoenix Encounters conducted with more than fifteen hundred senior executives-from startups and family businesses to legacy companies-representing a broad range of industry and sectors in both developed and developing economies.
Whatever your sector or industry, if you're responsible for your organization's ability to use change as a transformative opportunity, you'll appreciate the dramatic impact The Phoenix Encounter Method will have on you, your leadership, and your organization.
List of contents
Introduction: Are You on Fire?
PART I
PHOENIX SEEKING:
Encounter Groundwork
CHAPTER 1 Phoenix or Dodo?
CHAPTER 2 Leadership Thinking in Firestorm Disruption
CHAPTER 3 The Phoenix Encounter Method
CHAPTER 4 The Phoenix Attitude
CHAPTER 5 Phoenix Tools and Habits:
Extra Strategic Perception
PART II
PHOENIX BURNING:
Encounter Battlefield
CHAPTER 6 Scanning Firepower for Extreme
Attack and Horizon Defense
CHAPTER 7 All Digital Firepower, All the Time
CHAPTER 8 Platforms: The Ecosystem Firepower
CHAPTER 9 The Firepower of Indispensable Technologies
CHAPTER 10 Targeted Technology Firepower
CHAPTER 11 Firepower Far Beyond Technology
CHAPTER 12 Firepower from Combinatorial Innovation
PART III
PHOENIX RISING:
Encounter Breakthrough
CHAPTER 13 Blueprint for Breakthrough
CHAPTER 14 Phoenix Leaders: Dreamers and Doers
CHAPTER 15 Conclusion: The Phoenix Rises
Afterword: Final Reflection
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
About the author
Ram Charan is the coauthor of bestsellers Execution and Confronting Reality and the author of What the CEO Wants You to Know and 10 other books. A noted expert on business strategy, he has coached some of the world's most successful CEOs and helped companies like GE, Bank of America, Verizon, KLM, and Thomson shape and implement their strategic direction.
