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In Go Long, authors Dennis Carey, Brian Dumaine, Michael Useem, and Rodney Zemmel take you behind the scenes to witness the business decisions that are enabling leading organizations to outsmart and outlast the competition.

Führung funktioniert selten so, wie wir es gelernt haben – und oft ganz anders, als wir denken. Dieses Management Buch blickt hinter die Kulissen organisationaler Realität: zwischen Teamdynamiken, Selbstführung, Entscheidungsdruck und Systemlogik. Mayday im System macht sichtbar, wie Organisationen tatsächlich „ticken" – als soziale, dynamische Systeme – und warum Selbstführung zur Schlüsselkompetenz in komplexen Zeiten wird.

Traditional business structures love stability and predictability. Yet many organizations believe the two essential ingredients for long-term success are creativity and innovation. Kirsten May and Alex Varricchio, founders of the marketing agency UpHouse, call the relationship between these two opposing expectations the Proximity Paradox - the belief that those who are closest to a subject are best-qualified to innovate for it, when, in reality, intense proximity limits creativity.

It's easy for scale-ups, giddy from early startup success, to get ahead of themselves and stumble. It's even easier to be slowed down by the many forces of resistance working against them: drag, inertia, friction, and waste. Drawing on a mastery of lean-based methods for achieving maximum effect with minimum means, private equity operators Matthew E. May and Pablo Dominguez provide listeners with a powerful framework of universally applicable principles that enable any company to effectively accelerate its ability to scale and grow.