Skip to Main Content
The Breakthrough Imperative
book

The Breakthrough Imperative

by Mark Gottfredson, Steve Schaubert
October 2009
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
384 pages
9h 29m
English
HarperCollins Publishers
Content preview from The Breakthrough Imperative

SEVEN

Where You’re Going: Mapping Your Point of Arrival and Making a Plan

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

—JACK WELCH

WHAT DO WE MEAN BY “POINT OF ARRIVAL”?

When you accepted your position as general manager, you knew that your overall objective would be to arrive at an improved business situation as seen through the eyes of most or all of the relevant stakeholders—shareholders, customers, suppliers, senior management, employees, and community constituencies. But we use the term “point of arrival” in a specific way. Your point of arrival isn’t some vague statement about improvement. Rather, the point of arrival is a set of carefully defined, numerically ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

The Self-Destructive Habits of Good Companies: ...And How to Break Them

The Self-Destructive Habits of Good Companies: ...And How to Break Them

Jagdish N. Sheth
Fit for Growth

Fit for Growth

John Plansky, Deniz Caglar
The Truth About Successful Entrepreneurship (Collection)

The Truth About Successful Entrepreneurship (Collection)

Michael D. Solomon, Brian D. Till, Donna Heckler, Bruce Barringer

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780061869976Purchase book