Unblock

Need significant outcomes quickly? But does everything feel like swimming through peanut butter? It is time to Unblock your organization.

Perhaps you want to double your company’s market share or reinvent its core business. Or you are bringing a new product to market or need to implement regulations. If so, this book is for you; it’s designed for leaders who want to move the needle.

To achieve your goals, you need people to take ownership. You need less talking, more action, less analysis and faster decisions, less bureaucracy, and more initiative.

Learn to apply modern organizational methods in areas of:
– Strategy: Craft a strategy that actually creates alignment and focus at scale.
– Steering: Set effective goals and find the right things to measure.
– Decisions: Improve the speed of decision-making at every level.
– Ownership: Develop a workplace where people happily take ownership and can do what is right for the organization.
– Teamwork: Develop psychologically safe teams that master reflection, improvement, and feedback.
– Meetings: Get rid of useless meetings and replace them with engaging ones that drive work forward.
– Change Management: Lead long-lasting cultural change efforts that won’t fail like most others.

Most of the traditional management methods don’t help you get rid of inertia. This book offers new methods that allow you to stop working harder, take a step back, and change the system.

There are a lot of great books out there on developing an effective organization. But what is different about this book is that it is pragmatic and practical.

The book is full of leadership advice, such as:
– How to prioritize so you don’t spread your initiatives too thin.
– Why you shouldn’t cascade your strategy and what to do instead.
– How to measure the right things so you know you’re making progress.
– How to move from analysis paralysis to rapid action and learning.
– How to coach others to take more ownership.
– How to reduce meetings across the organization.
– How to develop an organization that creates results through autonomy and alignment.

‘Unblock’ provides new solutions to your stickiest problems, practical tips to overcome organizational dysfunction, and helps you execute strategy and achieve a lasting impact.

Stop the nonsense that is holding your organization back and unlock the potential that is already there. Develop a high-performing organization that delivers results and is fulfilling for those working there.

What you can expect:
– The chapters can be read standalone (in 15 minutes or less), so jump directly to what’s most relevant to your situation and skip everything else.
– Each chapter starts with an entertaining fictional story.
– Every chapter ends with a checklist that you can use to assess your situation.
– The book covers essential theory but is full of step-by-step exercises.

‘Unblock’ is the ultimate manual for leaders needing to achieve drastically better outcomes quickly. It explains the theory, provides practical examples, and guides you step by step. This is no ordinary business book! ‘Unblock’ is a reference guide, operating manual, and checklist all rolled into one. It’s the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Business Galaxy. – Barry Doran, CFO South Africa at B/S/H/

This book invites you to reflect on the performance of yourself, your team, and your organization. I appreciate that it avoids a one-size-fits-all approach, instead providing modules that you can apply based on your specific context. – Wilma van Dijk, CEO at Rotterdam The Hague Airport

This book provides many tools and examples from various industries. Instead of lofty new theories, this is a practical guide for effective execution, offering advice that is surprisingly simple yet often overlooked by many organizations. – Kees Smaling, CTO International at Aegon