Upstanding : how company character catalyzes loyalty, agility, and hypergrowth / Frank A. Calderoni.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Calderoni, Frank A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business ethics.

Character.

Corporate culture.

Organizational behavior.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2021]

Summary:

The CEO of Anaplan explains how a company's character is a critical driver of sustained success In his career as an executive at IBM, Cisco, and now as CEO of Anaplan, Frank A. Calderoni discovered that character is just as vital for companies as it is for individuals. In Upstanding: How Company Character Catalyzes Loyalty, Agility, and Hypergrowth , the author explores the powerful link between corporate strategy, company culture, and individual character, and how activating this link is essential to realizing strong company character--and an essential ingredient for organizations to achieve hypergrowth, agility, and loyalty. This innovative resource features real-life examples of how today's most successful companies are building upstanding character while increasing employee engagement, happiness, and performance. The book is written to help executives, company founders, managers, and other leaders develop strategies that supercharge organizational performance while building a strong and high-engagement culture--providing real-world insights from the author's own career along with a diverse cross-section of business thought leaders and CEOs of companies both small and large, local and global. The author draws upon his experience leading a $10 billion hypergrowth software company to explain how the fusion of culture and strategy, driven by a company's character, leads to sustained internal and external success. Designed to empower leaders to make character the cornerstone of corporate culture, this invaluable resource: Explores what "upstanding character" means for an organization, and how building a culture based on empathy, courage, authenticity, integrity, respect, and other factors drives higher performance and value creation for employees, customers, partners, and shareholders Reviews research on how culture drives performance, and operational practices for building upstanding organizational character and driving value-aligned behavior Features original interviews with Shantanu Narayen, Cy Wakeman, Eric Hutcherson, Kellie McElhaney, Geoffrey Moore, and other leaders inside and outside the tech sector Provides practical tools and approaches for increasing inclusion and belonging, improving communication, strengthening engagement, and rewarding upstanding character in employees Discusses the "Big 9" cultural values that are essential to creating upstanding company character, such as agility, collaboration, diversity, integrity, and respect With a foreword by Shantanu Narayen, Chairman and CEO of Adobe, Upstanding: How Company Character Catalyzes Loyalty, Agility, and Growth is essential reading for executives and business leaders interested in strategy, leadership, organizational culture, and management innovation, as well as leadership teams and HR professionals who are responsible for guiding their organization's culture and developing its character.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

PART I It's a New World

Chapter 1 A New Given: Culture Is Strategy

Leaders must put character at the center of everything they do.

The New Relevance of Character

Leading for Character and Culture

The Nexus of Culture and Strategy

Chapter 2 21st-Century Ethos

Character is the North Star by which we steer our organizations.

Ethos of Inclusion, Purpose, and Agency

Virtual and Global Teams

The Employer Value Proposition

The Transformation of Every Company in Every Industry

Bigger Data

Hypergrowth Expectations

Customers First

Chapter 3 The New Essential Core: Upstanding Character

Having a disengaged character is the same as having no character.

Is Your Character Online or Offline?

The DNA of Organizations with Upstanding Character

PART II Building Character-Driven Organizations

Chapter 4 Know Your Values

Upstanding character starts with defining your unique core values.

It Starts with Personal Work

Know What You Stand For

Identify Values in Partnership with Employees

Review and Update Your Values

Chapter 5 Top Down, Bottom Up

Authentic company values come from an ongoing dialogue, constant vigilance, and recognition of exemplary behavior.

Eras Identify Their Leaders

Communicate, Communicate, Communicate

Carrying the Culture Flag

Chapter 6 Make Character-LedCulture Your Strategy

It requires a lot of courage to take a stand on behalf of a company's character.

What's Your Purpose?

Beyond Financial Results

Learnings from the Disney Institute

Transparency and Accountability

Chapter 7 Magnetic Character:Activating Positive Forces

Take bold action to drive positive change.

Taking a Stand

A Continuum for Change

Attract and Retain People

Hiring for Character.

Evaluating Talent for Character

Building an Upstanding Leadership Team

PART III Putting Character into Action

Chapter 8 Responding to Crisis

Your true character is what shows up in times of crisis.

When You Are Called, How Do You Answer?

Cisco and Proposition 8

The Day the NBA Answered the Call

Chapter 9 Stories from Exemplar Companies-and Leaders

An organization's upstanding character is a reflection of the people in it.

Adobe: Evolution of a Great Company

Culture at Puppet-A Move Back to Its Roots

A Breath of Fresh Air at Coca-Cola

Creating a Mission-driven Culture at Chegg

The Nature of Character at Slack

Charles Schwab: A Founder's Living Legacy of Service to Clients

Genpact: Character Drives Client-first Culture

Keeping the Culture Ball in Play at Splunk

The Power of Jaguar Land Rover's Mantra

Chapter 10 Looking to the Future

Create the future you want to live and work in.

The AI Edge

Career Management

The Future of Work

Equity-fluent Leadership

My Greatest Hope

Endnotes

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Index

EULA.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-119-74655-8

OCLC:

1255232538