Powerhouse

Why are the New Zealand All Blacks the best rugby team in the world? How does the Kirov Ballet produce generation after generation of exceptional ballerinas? How did Southwest Airlines evolve from being an idiosyncratic Texan airline to become one of the most successful businesses internationally? How does the Finnish School Education System deliver great results when appearing to break conventional wisdom? Powerhouse seeks to answer these questions and sets out how any organisation can learn from these great institutions and adopt the same principles to raise their own bar on performance.§In an effort to understand what makes institutions and organizations great the authors have researched and interviewed successful leaders from a diverse range of backgrounds - business, sport, science/ technology, academia, the arts and other fields. All of them share a common bond: they are leaders of institutions that are world class and have outperformed their peers over the long-term. Powerhouse explores how the lessons of these organizations have been collated to develop an in-depth understanding of how high performance organizations are built, and the characteristics that make them enduring. It identifies the core capabilities they all share and is essential reading for business executives and anyone who wants to understand what really makes these world-class institutions the best in their respective games.