Learning from More Than 600,000 Executives
Knowledge and skill differentiates the business winner. Learning new skills from your customers, your supply chain, and your resource network, is critical in today's punishingly tough environment.
The Schulich Executive Education Centre is proud to be part of your resource network and we will work hard to keep earning this trust. Our stable of international subject matter experts, our network of business leaders, and the quality of our students are three of the key things we bring to your resource pool. Another key tool used to hone our skills and deepen our knowledge is the wealth of papers and research written by the world's top business researchers from Tokyo to Dubai and London.
Our business matter experts rely on their business knowledge as well as this research for the very latest tools, ideas and statistics, so they can continue to hone their own knowledge and pass on key lessons, but also to stimulate better discussions in class. Classes may be better described as collaborative discussions, where groups of peers meet, exchange knowledge, pool experience and debate common issues and challenges that each face day to day in the boardroom.
When your class members are some of Canada's fastest rising stars, the result can be an exhilarating exchange of knowledge where the communication flow is more of a web than a straight line.
Scott Keller leads McKinsey's Transformational Change Group in the Americas, and has worked with CEOs and top teams to deliver substantial improvements in clients' revenue, share prices, and customer satisfaction and regularly hosts CEO roundtables on leadership and change management. His latest book, Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive Advantage, came about as a result of lessons learned from interviews with over 600,000 executives.
The research he and his team undertook has led him to the following conclusion:
"Most organizations are managed for mediocrity. A few achieve excellence but even of these only a third are able to maintain it over decades; even fewer manage to implement successful transformation programs. These statistics have devastating implications. In business, most of today's companies will falter within 20 years. In government, the majority of reform programs will fail. And so will most efforts to create broader social change."
They set out to find a way to help business leaders beat these odds and answer some key questions such as:
- "How can we dramatically - and quickly - improve our organization's performance?
- What are the known pitfalls of transforming an organization, and how can we avoid them?
- How do we ensure that our performance improvements will last?
- How do we create a culture of continuous change that will help us sustain competitive advantage in a constantly changing world?
This led them to devote over a decade to refining their knowledge, writing the book Beyond Performance, and making it available to any leader that is driven, curious, or proactive enough to pick it up and make it part of their bed side reading.
It is amazing how much extraordinary effort subject matter experts, whether they are at Schulich, McKinsey or over 500 knowledge organizations across the globe are putting out to help make the rest of us more effective so we can better achieve our business, social, and personal goals.
Their work offers a rich tool box of practical tools, great statistics, counter intuitive insights and scores of real-life examples from organizations of all kinds around the world, as well as a clear process leader can use to change their organizations.
Even more remarkable, much of this work is available to executives through executive programs, books, white papers and "customized hands on programs" where you are almost assured of getting a tremendous 100%+ return on your and your people's time and effort investment. In Schulich Executive Education Centre's Master Certificate and customized programs, as many as seven or eight different specialists are brought in to teach specific skills and provide tools customized specifically for a particular audience.
We are in a world of rapid change where many will fail and we need to leverage the hard diligent work of others to achieve our goals. So why not stand on the shoulders of 600,000 executives and learn from them?
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