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Fit to Compete
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Fit to Compete

by Michael Beer
January 2020
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
7h 2m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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Author’s Note

This book is a product of a deep collaboration with Russell Eisenstat, my colleague at the Harvard Business School in the 1990s and in several professional endeavors that have followed. While I wrote this book alone and am responsible for the ideas in it, Russ was a full partner in the development of the strategic fitness process (SFP), the method for enabling honest, collective, and public conversations in organizations and the subject of this book. Our collaboration gave rise to the insights I present here. We collaborated on the early applications of SFP and on several studies to evaluate its effectiveness. We also had many discussions to make sense of our research findings and observations as we helped managers lead honest conversations. ...

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ISBN: 9781633692312