Turn your Organisation into an Icon
What do the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, restaurant elBulli, and the All Blacks rugby team have in common? All three are icons: organizations that do something special and stay at the top of their game for decades in a row.
Toonaangevend discusses the 3 essential characteristics identified by the authors:
1. uncompromised selection of talent
2. dynamics that let the team transcend itself
3. relentless drive to push the boundaries
These elements create a virtuous circle of competence: successfully and continuously pushing the envelope makes the organization iconically competent turning it into a magnet for attracting the best talent to keep the circle going.
Among others, Mariss Jansons, Robert Reibestein, Jeroen van der Veer and Robbert Dijkgraaf talk about their experiences with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, McKinsey, Shell and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
The book provides a unique insight into what executives and their organization can do to reach a level of iconic competence.
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Praise for “Toonaangevend”
“Toonaangevend doesn’t give a recipe for instant success, but a blueprint for building iconic organizations. It offers an inviting perspective for ambitious and perseverant managers.”
Robert Reibestein, former head of McKinsey EMEA
“The essence of sustainable leadership is to build an organization that grows stronger with each generation. Toonaangevend describes in a pervasive way some of the essential elements to do this. The lessons distilled from studying a series of iconic companies and institutions outside the traditional realm led me to some genuinly new insights. ”
Thomas Leysen, Chairman KBC and Umicore
“A TomTom to take the competence of your organization further”
Jeroen van der Veer, former CEO of Royal Dutch Shell
“Average teams remember the few times that things went fantastic. Top teams remember the instance it didn’t go perfectly. ”
Fergus McWilliam, horn player Berliner Philharmoniker
