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Building Athletic Organisations

Tom Cheesewright

@bookofthefuture

Change happens in waves

Many companies have failed to keep pace

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Build Athletic Organisations

Heighten Senses
Accelerate Decisions
Train for Action

Heighten senses

Get closer to your customers
Fix process for medium-term strategy

Accelerate Decisions

Move information more quickly and cleanly
Push power to the edge of the organisation

Train for Action

Adaptation not optimisation
Future-ready organisations are networks not monoliths

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Takeaways

We live in an age of high frequency change, driven by technology.

Build athletic organisations

Sense: Watch the near horizon
Decide: Push power to the edges
Act: Networks not monoliths

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