Review: Beyond Performance

Only about one-third of great companies stay great for the long haul, and even fewer companies are able to implement effective change programs, according to a Scott Keller and Colin Price, McKinsey & Company consultants. Why those change management efforts often fail has always been difficult to quantify, but the authors undertook more than a decade of research (from 600,000 participants at more than 500 companies) to try. The result is Beyond Performance . More than half of a company's overall success is driven by its health. Keller and Price lay out a five-step plan for sustainably transforming the performance and health of any organization , including: Aspire, where do we want to go; Assess, how ready are we to go there; Architect: what do we need to get do to get there; Act, how do we manage the journey; and Advance, how do we keep moving forward?