What's your corporate IQ? : how the smartest companies learn, transform, and lead

Based entirely on original research, What's Your Corporate IQ? is the first of its kind to describe the interrelationships between corporate strategy, CEO attributes, leadership, values, and ethics. In What's Your Corporate IQ?, Jim Underwood presents the results of a breakthrough study of 15 global competitors and determined that high-corporate-IQ companies consistently ranked among the top performers of their industries. Likewise, low-IQ companies ranked at the bottom of their industries. Just what is corporate IQ? Underwood describes it as the interrelationship between a firm's strategy, organization, character, and competitors. In a reader-friendly style, Underwood profiles the high IQs of the ""ten smartest companies in America."" Underwood states that organizations using a clear-cut ""people philosophy""-one that focuses on the long-term success of its people-strengthens a company's overall foundation. While taking a humorous look at some of the self-defeating practices managers employ to sabotage themselves, he uses the situations to point out that leaders who commit to good strategy have definite advantages over their competition, and statistics confirm that reality. What's Your Corporate IQ? outlines: \* The 17 corporate attributes that drive corporate success. \* The foundation for corporate success-three rules of leadership and strategy. \* The power of significance building-an employee's basic desire to be recognized. \* Fifteen self-defeating habits of highly ineffective leaders. \* Measuring success on performance, not by financial quarters. \* Organization entrepreneurial support systems. \* Company character-values, people, ethics, and sustainability. \* Why initiatives for change fail or succeed on implementation. Countless business books extol the virtues of excellence, total quality management, core competencies, and other theories currently in vogue. But perhaps the most reliable indicator of an organization's performance and longevity is its "Corporate IQ." Defined as the interrelationship between a firm's strategy, organization, character, and competitors, Corporate IQ is proven to be the determining factor that separates the top performers of their industries from the bottom. Now New York Times bestselling author Jim Underwood reveals how you can raise your organization's IQ -- and achieve greater profitability, durability, and success. Based on his breakthrough study of hundreds of global organizations, What's Your Corporate IQ? profiles the "ten smartest companies in America" and discusses the keys to each company's successA Corporate IQ test will help you assess your company's overall IQ and implement changes to increase organizational "smarts." In What's Your Corporate IQ? you'll discover exactly why and how smart companies win while others lose. Why is it that some companies become the top industry performers while others rank at the bottom? After studying hundreds of global organizations, bestselling author Jim Underwood determined that high Corporate IQ companies consistently rise to the top -- and those with low IQs are doomed to linger at the bottom. "Corporate IQ is a computation that involves three broad areas of the firm: strategy, organization, and character," states the author. "Strategy deals with the firm's aggressiveness, organization deals with the firm's ability to adapt, and character deals with the firm's ability to sustain the first two. The ability of a firm to match those qualities with its competitive context determines whether it survives, thrives, or dies," he asserts.Based on H. Igor Ansoff's theories that the financial performance of a firm is maximized whenever both the strategy and management capability match its competitive context, Underwood's stunning new findings actually define the 17 corporate attributes that drive corporate success. Profiles of mostly Fortune 500 firms, including Southwest Airlines, Mary Kay Inc., Fidelity Investments, and Agilent Technologies, illustrate how each organization has built itself to match the unique demands of its particular industry. What's Your Corporate IQ? provides the wisdom and tools you need to study your firm's overall strategy -- and custom-build your company to meet the challenges of your competitive environment.

Based entirely on original research, What's Your Corporate IQ? is the first of its kind to describe the interrelationships between corporate strategy, CEO attributes, leadership, values, and ethics.

In What's Your Corporate IQ?, Jim Underwood presents the results of a breakthrough study of 15 global competitors and determined that high-corporate-IQ companies consistently ranked among the top performers of their industries. Likewise, low-IQ companies ranked at the bottom of their industries. Just what is corporate IQ? Underwood describes it as the interrelationship between a firm's strategy, organization, character, and competitors.

In a reader-friendly style, Underwood profiles the high IQs of the "ten smartest companies in America." Underwood states that organizations using a clear-cut "people philosophy"-one that focuses on the long-term success of its people-strengthens a company's overall foundation. While taking a humorous look at some of the self-defeating practices managers employ to sabotage themselves, he uses the situations to point out that leaders who commit to good strategy have definite advantages over their competition, and statistics confirm that reality. What's Your Corporate IQ? outlines:

* The 17 corporate attributes that drive corporate success.

* The foundation for corporate success-three rules of leadership and strategy.

* The power of significance building-an employee's basic desire to be recognized.

* Fifteen self-defeating habits of highly ineffective leaders.

* Measuring success on performance, not by financial quarters.

* Organization entrepreneurial support systems.

* Company character-values, people,ethics, and sustainability.

* Why initiatives for change fail or succeed on implementation.

"Based on H. Igor Ansoff's theories that the financial performance of a firm is maximized whenever both the strategy and management capability match its competitive context, Underwood's new findings actually define the 17 corporate attributes that drive corporate success, including: marketing aggressiveness; innovation aggressiveness; product technology; CEO attributes; managers; culture; strategic capacity; ethics, and value of people."--BOOK JACKET. Why companies win Why companies lose The three rules of leadership and strategy Context-context-context Custom built companies Corporate IQ : strategies for success Organization : entrepreneurial support systems Character: the sustainability factor The ultimate motivator RAVE : level five leaders Creating the ultimate customer experience Strategic focus : finding your way in a chaotic world Measuring success What's your corporate iq?