ESCP Europe

Based on interviews with 150 executives from leading global companies such as Cisco, HP, IBM, Intel, Nokia, and SAP, this book analyses the risks successful companies face, and presents the three essential capabilities they need in order to regain and maintain continued growth : strategic sensitivity (both the sharpness of perception and the intensity of awareness and attention), resource fluidity (the internal capability to reconfigure business systems and redeploy resources rapidly) and collective commitment (the ability of the top team to make bold decisions fast, without being bogged in win-lose politics at the top). Measures, tools and leadership behaviours implemented by these companies as they rekindled growth are detailed in a way that can serve as examples and be readily put in practice.