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CONCLUSION

We started this book with an analogy of a rocking horse to demonstrate that motion doesn't always equate to progress. However, it is important to remember that there can be no progress without motion. If anything you've read in our book suggests that motion is not a necessity or is somehow a bad outcome, then that is an unintended consequence. The proverbial rocking horse comes into play when that motion is misdirected because this is when progress is not the outcome you achieve.

There is no right or wrong way to ensure that motion is directed as intended and that progress is always as expected. There are multiple ways to approach any project or challenge, not one track to follow. The key is to compare and contrast your options: are they efficient or inefficient; cost effective or expensive; enjoyable or exhausting; satisfying or a struggle?

Throughout the eight chapters in this book, we have explored a set of principles that you can adopt in your organisation to stack the odds in favour of progress being the logical outcome of your activities, regardless of the scale of the outcome you're focusing on. We have broken these down into what we believe are the three core themes of the business ecosystem: the principal (leader), the crew (team), and the season (enterprise environment).

In our Formula 1 team, the principal sets the priorities, the crew provides the momentum, and the season is the race schedule and environment in which each race takes place. As a business, ...