Corporate Plasticity

What connects The Beatles, Apollo 13, the Roman military, a pack of wolves, and the world's leading companies? The answer is Plasticity—the ability to transform and thrive with changing circumstances. While most organizations prioritize strategy and operational excellence, these elements alone offer limited long-term benefits. Truly effective organizations incorporate Plasticity as a third dimension, enabling them to achieve remarkable successes repeatedly. This principle empowers strategy and operational excellence to generate significant value. In "Corporate Plasticity: How to Change, Adapt, and Excel," the authors illustrate how Plasticity helps outstanding organizations dismantle barriers, foster collaboration toward common goals, and reorganize to tackle challenges or enhance competitive positions. Through captivating stories and insightful analysis, the book reveals how Plasticity propels sports teams to victory, companies to unprecedented profits, and artists to global acclaim. By embracing principles like adaptability, flexibility, dynamic networks and roles, ambitious objectives, and innovation, you can achieve operational excellence, dismantle silos, and build vibrant, inventive enterprises. Imagine an organization not only profitable and enjoyable to work for but also capable of changing the world. Plasticity empowers organizations to chart their own paths, become adaptable, and take bold risks. Its success relies on the "Magic 7" abilities: 1. Purpose: Identify and articulate your company's reason for being. 2. Focus: Boldly disregard anything that doesn't align with your purpose and pursue it relentlessly. 3. Culture: Foster an environment that encourages working across boundaries and beyond predefined roles. 4. Spirit: Inspire individuals to feel part of something greater than themselves. 5. Networking: Facilitate the development and expansion of internal and external networks consistently. 6. Knowledge: Promote the sharing of expertise, ensuring it is accessible to all who require it. 7. Leadership: Leaders should embody and exemplify the traits they wish others to emulate. Facing issues like siloed thinking, poor collaboration, or lackluster earnings? "Corporate Plasticity: How to Change, Adapt, and Excel" offers solutions. It guides you in cultivating these seven disciplines to infuse Plasticity within your organization. Alongside precise strategy and sharp execution, these elements unlock the potential needed to achieve both personal and corporate ambitions, and perhaps even make a global impact.