Wiring the Winning Organization

Praise for this book

• This is a fabulous book that I highly recommend. I’m not aware of anyone who has put their finger on the fundamental truth that Kim and Spear have articulated so amazingly well: successful organizations flow from leaders who create the conditions in which many others thrive.

• Elegant and simple. It’s a teacher’s best companion—a lesson plan for teaching the theory of performance.

• All organizations, large and small, public and private, are overwhelmed by complexity, multiple priorities, conflicting goals, shifting landscapes, and constrained resources. Kim and Spear lay out an amazing vision of the social circuitry for organizations to not only handle this but thrive while doing so.

• This book clearly teaches you how to rewire your organization to move with focused, sustained urgency and win!

• In a world where complexity is the norm, Kim and Spear provide the essential guide for those in need of a compass for the maze of today’s business environment. This is more than a book—it’s a toolkit for transforming your organization and rising to the challenges of our ever-changing landscape.

• This book is a must-read that deeply informs leaders on how to create great systems for outstanding performance and to win.

• A great piece of work! …the authors not only provide an encompassing schema for those looking to drive performance by improving operations, but they help take practices developed for particular industries and functions and generalize them across all contexts. The guidance they provide is outstanding.

• Having spent the majority of my thirty-five-year US Navy career and subsequent private industry career working in large complex industrial organizations, what Kim and Spear have written with Wiring the Winning Organization completely resonates with me. I wish I had read this book decades ago; it would have helped me be a better leader.

• Wiring the Winning Organization' is an indispensable guide for modern leaders seeking to navigate the complexities of organizational success. With a keen focus on avoiding pitfalls and steering clear of the danger zone, this book provides actionable insights that propel a company into the winning zone. Drawing from a wealth of practical case studies, it equips leaders with the tools needed to lead effectively.

• Wiring the Winning Organization illuminates the dynamics that drive organizations to success or failure. More importantly, the book condenses a century of disparate insights into a grand unified theory of management. Simple enough for anyone to understand but profound enough to address the needs of the world's most high-stakes organizations, this book has the potential to equip generations of leaders with principles that are both effective and humane.

• With a compelling mix of carefully selected case studies from diverse industries and times, combined with actionable insights and reader prompts, Wiring the Winning Organization offers a unique blend of theory and practice. This book is an invaluable read for anyone seeking to create a winning organization—one where greatness can be achieved not by accident but because it is wired to do so.

• In their book 'Wiring the Winning Organization', Gene Kim and Steven J Spear have made a clarion call to every organization in every industry sector around the world to refocus and "rewire" internal communications and working practices to optimize for flow and outcomes. Through a coherent mix of new terminology, case studies, thought experiments, and guided reflections—all backed by sound research—the authors provide an irrefutable case for more deliberate, reflective communication and action as part of a winning organizational strategy. Highly recommended.

• The framework in this book brings together the most useful insights I’ve learned over my thirty years of study and practice. Save yourself the time and start here.

• Who hasn't been in an organization where everyone is super busy, yet delivering value to customers is still super slow and requires vast amounts of perseverance and patience? Gene and Steve's book will guide you on how to move from that 'danger zone" to a ‘winning zone’ by improving the social circuitry which is present in all organizations but all too often neglected.