Orchestrating Winning Performance

Breaking the code: winning through entrepreneurial action

Breaking the code: winning through entrepreneurial action

With Professor Benoît Leleux

Built to Last proved to be a huge bookstore success, years ago, but the recipes it provided for performance proved hard to replicate consistently. Reality is that sustainable success was and remains an elusive concept; some would even say a venerable Loch Ness monster, often seen but never documented. So, how do companies continuously reinvent themselves to stay ahead of the game? How do they preserve the entrepreneurial spirit that made their success possible in the first place? How do leaders communicate that need to stay on top and the drive to do so? How do private equity investors, typically buy-and-sell investors, wrestle value out of positions corporate owners were unable to take advantage of? Can we learn from some remarkable innovation players how to possibly become more sustainable? The sessions in this stream will discuss corporate entities that have been able to invent and re-invent themselves over time, often through technology, new business models and creative thinking.

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Program Overview | Description, dates and fees | OWP spirit | Related programs | Team Offers | Program Content | Program structure | Morning plenary sessions | New frontiers in decision making | Feeling good about making money: social responsibility and cash flow | Building a corporate culture in the 21st century | Governance successes and failures around the world | The power of China in the new world | Morning streams | Leading at the edge: how to bring out the best in yourself and others | Leading the family business: leveraging complexity for outperformance (8.30 - 12.30) | Navigating the future | Customer star: how to build a customer-centric organization | Leadership journeys: exploring the dynamics of power, collaboration, trust and authenticity | Strategic partnerships to gain competitive advantage | From scenarios to strategic priorities: getting your team aligned | Feeling crushed by complexity? Effective ways to simplify your business | Re-inventing the private sector: new business models | Leading the global enterprise: confronting new discontinuities | Afternoon insight sessions | Afternoon streams | BRICs and beyond: lessons from emerging markets | Driving innovation: from simply more dollars to social change | Leading for sustainable supply chain operations | Breaking the code: winning through entrepreneurial action | Building learning organizations | Mergers and acquisitions: a strategic finance view | The hard and soft, big and small, good, bad, and ugly sides of change | Creating dream teams: is it possible? | Moving up to enterprise leader: the Seven Seismic Shifts? | Actionable growth ideas: capitalizing on new business opportunities | Keynote speakers | John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief, The Economist | Yves Rossy, Jetman | James T. Hackett, Chairman & CEO, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation | Faculty Insights | Publications | Videos | Alumni | Alumni community