Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company's Capabilities Are the Key to a Winning Strategy

When your company's strategy and organization are not aligned, execution can't happen. Your company isn't fit to compete. Prized management expert Michael Beer reveals an innovative process for conducting honest conversations--at all levels of your organization--about your company's strategy, the ability to execute it, and what it will take to win.

• Presents a structured process--called the Strategic Fitness Process--for having an open, honest, public conversation about strategy.
• Answers the question "why can't we execute our strategy?"
• Examines why "organizational silence" exists and what to do about it.
• Reveals the six "silent killers" that prevent organizations from achieving their strategic objectives, along with their root causes.
• Shows how the Strategic Fitness Process changes leadership and what leaders must do if their organizations are to survive and prosper in the long run.

Audience:

• C-Suite and senior executives responsible for strategy.
• Managers at all levels--especially middle managers--who are responsible for executing strategy.
• Strategy consultants.
• HR and OD professionals and coaches.
• MBA and Exec Ed students.