Too Good To Fail?

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-273-78523-1
Verlag: FT Publishing International

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 395 g

Business leaders the world over are hardwired to focus on success. But what if understanding failure is the real secret behind enduring performance?

In Too Good To Fail? , Jan Filochowski turns his twenty years’ experience as a CEO and turnaround specialist into practical advice for business managers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Filochowski, Jan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

About the author  

Introduction

PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING FAILURE 

Chapter 1 – Mentioning the Unmentionable 

- What failure looks like

- The omnipresence of failure

- Measuring success and failure

- Misrepresenting success and failure

- The infectiousness of failure

Chapter 2 – The Pattern of Failure: The Yosemite Curve   

- Phase 1: Struggle

- Phase 2: Denial

- Phase 3: Freefall

- Phase 4: Rock Bottom

- Phase 5: Recovery

- Phase 6: Consolidation

Chapter 3 – Other Types of Failure  

- Total failure – the Niagara drop

- Shallow failure: the frying pan

- Broadening failure: the Grand Canyon

PART TWO:  AVOIDING FAILURE 

Chapter 4 – Passive Warning Signs

- Ignorance

- Certainty

- Complacency

Chapter 5 – Active Alarm bells  

- Obsession

- Manipulation

- Evasion

Chapter 6 – The cultural litmus test

-    A reckless culture?

-    A culture of false reassurance?

-    A culture of gaming?

-    A culture of control?

PART THREE: CURING FAILURE  

Chapter 7 – Regaining confidence

- Talking to staff

-  Reaching outside

-  Responding

-  Retaining Momentum

-  Trumpeting success

Chapter 8 – Getting back in control  

- Digging till you find the cause

- Tackling immediate problems

- Rebuilding the mechanisms for managing

- Unlocking the organisation

PART FOUR: SUCCEEDING  

Chapter 9 – The opposite of failure 

- Adapting

- Giving and getting feedback

- Managing relentlessly

Chapter 10 – The importance of being honest 

- The unbreakable triangle

- Passivity and fatalism

- Risk management and failure

- Understanding process

- Redesigning to solve

Chapter 11 – Mining the data

- The devil is in the detail

- Finding the kernel of truth

- Approximating

- Using information for performance management

- Turning the world upside down

Chapter 12 – Fault tolerance, randomness and pattern  

- Living with imperfection

- Managing the unknown

- Randomness and pattern

- Spikiness

- Talent or luck?

Chapter 13 – Gauging the environment 

- Horizon scanning

- Rule changes

- Togetherness and partnership

Chapter 14 – The attentive manager

- Dividing to grasp

Über Autor(innen)

Jan Filochowski is the CEO of Great Ormond Street Hospital. He has spent over 35 years in healthcare-related management, the first 10 as a policymaker in government and the next 25 running large organisations – mainly hospitals – interspersed with periods in academia and as a turnaround specialist and trouble-shooter in the National Health Service.

As a trouble-shooter, he worked with 30 to 40 organisations who were in difficulty or in deep failure. He has helped diagnose the root causes of their problems and guided them back to organisational health and achievement.

During his practitioner career, Jan has also been a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University and an NHS University Fellow at Cambridge Judge Business School.