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1. an amazing immersive experience
   By allowing us to learn from others experience the authors created an environment that helps the readers to feel like they were actually been part of it. Very good!!

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2. That was fast!
   Brand new and it was received in a JiFF! Great price too!!

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3. Excelente propuesta para transformar empresas
   Los autores hacen una muy fuerte y contundente disertación sobre las diferentes tareas que los líderes de las organizaciones deben llevar a cabo para enfrentar los cambios de una era digital.

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4. “The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed yet.” William Gibson
   Whatever their size and nature may be, all organizations need leaders at all levels and in all areas who — in Paul Leinwand and Mahadeva Matt Mani’s words — realize that “being in ‘the game’ is not enough, and just trying to do what others do will increasingly lead to irrelevancy. The future is all about substantive differentiation and creating measurable and meaningful value” for everyone involved.When its then chairman and CEO, Herb Kelleher, was asked to explain why Southwest Airlines was more profitable and had greater cap value than all of its ten competitors COMBINED, he replied, “We take great care of our people, they take great care of our customers, and our customers then take great care of our shareholders.”In Future Shock (1970), Alvin Toffler includes this prediction: “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”In Chapter 1, “Shape Your Future, Leinwand and Mani examine Twelve Beyond Digital Companies (Pages 6-9) that were identified during a three-year research study, listed in alpha order: Adobe, Citigroup, Cleveland Clinic, Hitachi,Honeywell, Inditex, Komatsu, Eli Lilly, Microsoft, Philips, STC Pay, and Titan. However different they may be in most respects, “every one of these companies had to reimagine its industries and business models,” then complete whatever transformations were necessary in order “to compete in a new way in the beyond digital environment and decided to get out in front of changer and shape their own future.”Leinwand and Mani also examine “seven elements at the source of successfully transforming to compete in a beyond digital world that we believe can provide a powerful road trip for how you can achieve enduring success.” Here are the seven leadership imperatives:1. Reimagine your company’s place in the world.2. Embrace and create value via ecosystems.3. Build a system of privileged insights with your customers.4. Make your organization outcome-oriented.5. Invert the focus of your leadership team.6. Reinvent the social contract with your people.7. Disrupt your own leadership approach.Each imperative is discussed in the first chapter (Pages 18-21) and then there are cross-references throughout the narrative.These are other passages of greatest interest and value to me, also listed to suggest the scope of Leinwand and Mani’s coverage:o The Speed Trap (Pages 4-5)o Twelve Beyond Digital Companies (6-9)o Overcoming the Disincentives for Making Bold Decisions (45-48)o Determining your company’s future place in the world: Three Steps (50-56)o The Nature of Modern Business Ecosystems (69-71)o Cleveland Clinic (84-89 and 177-180)o The Data and Technology Imperative (97-101)o Four Steps to Building a System of Privileged Insights (103-106)o Transcending the Traditional Functional Model (126-129)o Figure 5-1; From the traditional organization to the capabilities-based organization (132)o Is Your Leadership Team [begin italics] Leading [end italics]? (158-159)o The Importance of the New Model of People Engagement in the Beyond Digital World (181-184)o The Six Leadership Paradoxes (207-208)o The Importance of the Six Paradoxes of Leadership — and Leaders’ Biggest Gaps (222-223)o Table 6-1: Exemplary development measures along the six paradoxes (225)Leinwand and Mani also include a list of common strategic archetypes for creating value — “we call these [begin italics] puretones [end italics].” (See Table A-1, Puretone Ways to Play, Pages 240-243).When checking out the list of the Twelve Beyond Digital Companies (Pages 6-9), it would be a serious (if not fatal) mistake to assume that the abundance of information, insights, and counsel Leinwand and Mani provide is only relevant to Fortune 50, 100, or even 500 companies. In fact, almost all of the material (probably with only minor modification) can be invaluable to leaders of small-to-medium size companies. (Keep in mind that every Fortune 50 company was once a startup.)  I mention all this to create a context, a frame of reference, for two concluding portions of this brief commentary. First, Paul Leinwand and Mahadeva Matt Mani’s provision of several “key lessons”  for their reader to keep in mind when taking the next steps:o Partner with your board pf directors [or advisors] on determining the imperativeso Engage key stakeholderso Prioritize around customerso Focus on capabilities and outcomes, not digital initiativeso Invest in your people from the starto Separate the old from the newNow consider Jack Welch’s response when GE’s then chairman and CEO was asked the reasons for his high regard for small companies:“For one, they communicate better. Without the din and prattle of bureaucracy, people listen as well as talk; and since there are fewer of them they generally know and understand each other. Second, small companies move faster. They know the penalties for hesitation in the marketplace. Third, in small companies, with fewer layers and less camouflage, the leaders show up very clearly on the screen. Their performance and its impact are clear to everyone. And, finally, smaller companies waste less. They spend less time in endless reviews and approvals and politics and paper drills. They have fewer people; therefore they can only do the important things. Their people are free to direct their energy and attention toward the marketplace rather than fighting bureaucracy.”Organizations will take different approaches to the Beyond Digital Era. The nature and extent of transformations will vary, obviously, as will the results. Those who read — and then hopefully re-read — this book will be much better prepared to lead efforts to transform their organization and shape its future.As I began to read it, I was again reminded of an incident on the campus of Princeton University when a colleague of Albert Einstein’s chided him playfully because he always asked the same questions on his final examination. “Guilty as charged.” Why? Pause. “Each year the answers are different.”

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5. Here is some inspiration for leaders embarking upon #digitaltransformation journeys.
   The book by Mahadeva Matt Mani and Paul Leinwand inspired me in 2 ways. First, to think of organizations of the future akin to living cells that are constantly able to sense the environment and evolve as needed. Constant evolution is a journey that eventually leads to transformation. This thinking challenges two common and deeply embedded management practices:(a) #changemanagement that views change as episodic rather than constant ; and (b) current approaches to #performancemanagement which do not align the organization swiftly enough towards impact by deliberately realigning resources to goals.Don’t both these practices seem obsolete now?Second, the book was a good reminder that people remain at the core of a #digitaltransformation. Employees who may never have been expected or encouraged to be innovative, may be pushed to demonstrate the courage and the capability to ask questions, hypothesize about future possibilities and trust their intuition in the face of inadequate data. In this challenging backdrop, companies would need to focus on leadership behaviors needed to create a safe environment and on equipping employees to ensure they have the right tools/skills to show up in any meaningful way in this journey.

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6. Great book for leaders to jumpstart the new year!
   I just picked of my copy of this new book by Paul Leinwand and Mahadeva Matt Manithat was just released today.I enjoyed reading it, very insightful and worth the read.Leinwand and Mani identify seven imperatives of success going forward:1. Reimagine Your Company’s Place in the World2. Embrace and Create Value via Ecosystems3. Building a System of Privileged Insights With Customers4. Make an Outcome-Oriented Organization5. Invert the Focus of the Leadership Team6. Reinvent the Social Contract7. Disrupt Your Leadership ApproachI especially liked this quote:“ The greater the engagement with customers, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you improve the value proposition; the more you improve the value proposition, the more trust you generate (by delivering on your promise), and the more you gain engagement and an opportunity to learn.”

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7. Move beyond digital and competition with differentiating capabilities focusing on key imperatives
   Beyond digital is a fantastic book focusing on the change that the most successful companies in various industries have taken to set themselves apart in the current day and age. The focus on theory and practical case studies makes it a very easy to comprehend book outlining the key imperatives any company should develop and utilize as they move beyond digital. Becoming digital and setting yourself apart from competitors is not solely a “technical” exercise requiring pieces of hardware and software to lead the wave. It’s rather a finite set of hard & soft elements which work in tandem to move beyond digital and beyond competitors with differentiating capabilities which are difficult to replicate and even more difficult to build. This books shapes the path for any company to get ahead on the curve and disrupt themselves and their industries

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8. Highly recommended
   it’s well researched and informative books. I appreciated how the authors explained the most important topics and It made me reflect on what I read.Highly recommended.Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine

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9. Gostei muito do conteúdo e da abordagem. Traz cases reais. Recomendo.

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10. Visionary, yet pragmatic reading on the future of Digital Business featuring case studies from multiple industries, including Retail, Financial Services, Tech and Healthcare. Interesting perspectives from redesigning eco-systems and growth strategies to disrupting leadership styles and reinventing social contracts. Inspiring reading for Boards, C-level executives by Mahadeva Matt Mani Paul Leinwand from Strategy& PwC Harvard Business Review #Digital #Business

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11. I liked the 7 imperatives and the use cases used to demonstrate them. These are key principles for any transformation

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12. Bravo. What a welcome addition to the business strategy space…. With a difference.This is a very practical well researched playbook.It is very clearly written and takes the reader through a step by step process to approach transformation within the organisation.Having worked for 25 years in the corporate world I would strongly recommend this book for its inspiring practicality- a must have for you and your teams. Bravo to the authors and thank you.

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