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Performance Leadership: The Next Practices to Motivate Your People, Align Stakeholders, and Lead Your Industry

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Frank has a reputation for creative thinking, being a contrarian, and connecting disparate pieces that would otherwise not be connected in the area of Enterprise Performance Management (EPM). This book does not disappoint!

Many companies are still in the "meat and potatoes" stage of EPM, meaning Planning, Analytics, BI, Management & Statutory reporting, and Balanced Scorecards are disconnected, Frank gives us an aspirational vision of what EPM can be in this new book. If you work with any sort of industry maturity model to gauge where you stand with EPM, consider Frank's practices to be on the far right (or top left) of the continuum (or quadrant)!

Here are a few highlights of the content:
- Strategy and Organization Alignment
- Traditional Methodologies (Balanced Scorecard, Beyond Budgeting, DuPont ratio analysis, activity based costing/management, six sigma)
- Driving the right behaviors and balanced metrics
- What's really behind "one version of the truth"
- Managing with business interface metrics and key risk indicators
- How Stephen Covey has influenced performance leadership
- Performance networks/value mapping
- a new framework for performance leadership

Frank uses a lot of case studies and industry specific scenarios to explain the concepts in the book, and that helps connect his ideas to the real world. He also gives some specific advice on how to get started on the next phase of your EPM journey. The first step, he says, is to build and understand your own performance network. This will show you (and your senior management) what the key drivers of value are in your organization and in your overall ecosystem or supply and demand chain.

Anyone who has or is thinking of having an EPM roadmap for their organization should read this book. Anyone who has never heard of EPM/CPM/BPM, and wants to get better at executing strategy, on improving collaboration, efficiency, and having their organization survive this downturn, should read this book.

Effective leadership and Performance Management are essential in the business world. Frank Buytendijk has a lot of experience in this business. His focuss is on people and their behaviors within the organization. My opinion is, if you want to be a great leader with excellent skills, begin reading this book! A lot of management books have their focuss on methodologies and rules. It doesn't matter which company you work for because leadership begins with people!!
~Great Book~