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Wiring the Winning Organization: Liberating Our Collective Greatness Through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification

Gene Kim

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"Elegant and simple. It's a teacher's best companion--a lesson plan for teaching the theory of performance." --Adm. John Richardson (ret.), from his foreword to the book

"This book is a must-read that deeply informs leaders on how to create great systems for outstanding performance and to win." --Jeffrey K. Liker, PhD, author of The Toyota Way, 2nd edition

A 2024 Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist and Shortlisted for the 2024 Business Book Award.

Forget vision, grit, or culture. Wiring the Winning Organization reveals the hidden circuitry that drives organizational excellence.

Drawing on decades of meticulous research of high-performing organizations and cross-population surveys of tens of thousands of employees, award-winning authors Gene Kim and Dr. Steven J. Spear introduce a groundbreaking new theory of organizational management. Organizations win by using three mechanisms to slowify, simplify, and amplify, which systematically moves problem-solving from high-risk danger zones to low-risk winning zones.

Wiring the Winning Organization shines an investigative light on some of the most famous organizations, including Toyota, Amazon, Apple, and NASA, revealing how leaders create the social wiring that enables exceptional results.

This is not feel-good inspiration or armchair philosophy but a data-driven prescriptive playbook for creating excellence grounded in real-world results and proven theory. This is the rare business book that delivers concrete tools--not platitudes--to convert mediocrity into mastery.

"All organizations, large and small, public and private, are overwhelmed by complexity, multiple priorities, conflicting goals, shifting landscapes, and constrained resources. Kim and Spear lay out an amazing vision of the social circuitry for organizations to not only handle this but thrive while doing so." --Phil Venables, Chief Information Security Officer, Google Cloud; former Board Director, Goldman Sachs Bank

"This book clearly teaches you how to rewire your organization to move with focused, sustained urgency and win!" --Courtney Kissler, SVP Customer and Retail Technology, Starbucks

"In a world where complexity is the norm, Kim and Spear provide the essential guide for those in need of a compass for the maze of today's business environment." --David Silverman, CEO of CrossLead, coauthor of Team of Teams

Book Details

  • Publisher: It Revolution
  • Publish Date: Nov 21st, 2023
  • Pages: 384
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.24in - 6.34in - 0.79in - 1.45lb
  • EAN: 9781950508426
  • Categories: • Knowledge Capital• Organizational Behavior• Management Science

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About the Author

Kim, Gene: - Gene Kim has been studying high-performing technology organizations since 1999. He was the founder and CTO of Tripwire, Inc., an enterprise security software company, where he served for 13 years. His books have sold over 1 million copies--he is the WSJ bestselling author of Wiring the Winning Organization, The Unicorn Project, and co-author of The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Handbook, and the Shingo Publication Award-winning Accelerate. Since 2014, he has been the organizer of DevOps Enterprise Summit (now Enterprise Technology Leadership Summit), studying the technology transformations of large, complex organizations.
Spear, Steven J.: - Steven J. Spear (DBA MS MS) is principal for HVE LLC, the award-winning author of The High-Velocity Edge and patent holder for the See to Solve Real Time Alert System. A Senior Lecturer at MIT's Sloan School and a Senior Fellow at the Institute, Spear's work focuses on accelerating learning dynamics within organizations so that they know better and faster what to do and how to do it. This has been informed and tested in practice in multiple "verticals" including heavy industry, high-tech design, bio-pharm R&D, healthcare delivery and other social services, Army rapid equipping, and Navy readiness.

High velocity learning concepts became the basis of the Alcoa Business System--which led to 100s of millions in recurring savings, the Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiatives "Perfecting Patient Care System"--credited with sharp reductions in complications like MRSA and CLABs, Pratt & Whitney's "Engineering Standard Work"--which when piloted led to winning the engine contract for the Joint Strike Fighter, the operating system for Detroit Edison, and the Navy's high velocity learning line of effort--an initiative led by the Chief of Naval Operations. A pilot with a pharma company cut the time for the 'hit to lead' phase in early stage drug discovery from twelve months to six.

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Praise for this book

"All organizations, large and small, public and private, are overwhelmed by complexity, multiple priorities, conflicting goals, shifting landscapes, and constrained resources. Kim and Spear lay out an amazing vision of the social circuitry for organizations to not only handle this but thrive while doing so."--Phil Venables, CISO Google Cloud, former Board Director Goldman Sachs Bank
"In a world where complexity is the norm, Kim and Spear provide the essential guide for those in need of a compass for the maze of today's business environment. This is more than a book--it's a toolkit for transforming your organization and rising to the challenges of our ever-changing landscape."--David Silverman, President of American Atheists, CEO of CrossLead, coauthor of Team of Teams
"This book is a must-read that deeply informs leaders on how to create great systems for outstanding performance and to win."--Jeffrey K. Liker, author of The Toyota Way
"A great piece of work! ...the authors not only provide an encompassing schema for those looking to drive performance by improving operations, but they also help take practices developed for particular industries and functions and generalize them across all contexts. The guidance they provide is outstanding."--Joel Podolny, CEO of Honor Education and former VP & Dean of Apply University
"Having spent the majority of my thirty-five-year US Navy career and subsequent private industry career working in large complex industrial organizations, what Kim and Spear have written completely resonates with me. I wish I had read this book decades ago; it would have helped me be a better leader."--RADM Mark R. Whitney, US Navy (ret.), USN Executive Director of Hampton Roads Maritime Industrial Base Ecosystem
"Wiring a Winning Organization is an indispensable guide for modern leaders seeking to navigate the complexities of organizational success. With a keen focus on avoiding pitfalls and steering clear of the danger zone, this book provides actionable insights that propel a company into the winning zone. Drawing from a wealth of practical case studies, it equips leaders with the tools needed to lead effectively."--Christopher Porter, SVP, CISO, Fannie Mae
"Wiring the Winning Organization illuminates the dynamics that drive organizations to success or failure. More importantly, the book condenses a century of disparate insights into a grand unified theory of management. Simple enough for anyone to understand but profound enough to address the needs of the world's most high-stakes organizations, this book has the potential to equip generations of leaders with principles that are both effective and humane."--Andrew Davis, author of Mastering Salesforce DevOps
"With a compelling mix of carefully selected case studies from diverse industries and times, combined with actionable insights and reader prompts, Wiring the Winning Organization offers a unique blend of theory and practice. This book is an invaluable read for anyone seeking to create a winning organization--one where greatness can be achieved not by accident but because it is wired to do so."--Adrienne Shulman, Founder of Tenger Ways
"The framework in this book brings together the most useful insights I've learned over my thirty years of study and practice. Save yourself the time and start here."--Jeffrey Fredrick, coauthor of Agile Conversations
"Who hasn't been in an organization where everyone is super busy, yet delivering value to customers is still super slow and requires vast amounts of perseverance and patience? Gene and Steve's book will guide you on how to move from that 'danger zone" to a 'winning zone' by improving the social circuitry, which is present in all organizations but all too often neglected."--Manuel Pais, coauthor of Team Topologies
"This is a fabulous book that I highly recommend. I'm not aware of anyone who has put their finger on the fundamental truth that Kim and Spear have articulated so amazingly well: successful organizations flow from leaders who create the conditions in which many others thrive."--Paul Gaffney, former CTO and head of technology, The Home Depot, Kohl's and Dick's Sporting Goods
"This book clearly teaches you how to rewire your organization to move with focused, sustained urgency and win!"--Courtney Kissler, SVP, Customer and Retail Technology Starbucks
"Through a coherent mix of new terminology, case studies, thought experiments, and guided reflections--all backed by sound research--the authors provide an irrefutable case for more deliberate, reflective communication and action as part of a winning organizational strategy. Highly recommended."--Matthew Skelton, CEO of Conflux and co-author of Team Topologies