Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Stronger, Faster, Smarter 1
Chapter 2: The New Lanark Mills 15
Chapter 3: Design Your Life 31
Chapter 4: Day-to-Day Reengineering 45
Chapter 5: The New Self-Management 61
Chapter 6: MOVE 73
Chapter 7: On the Changing Patterns of Mobility Worldwide 89
Chapter 8: RECOVER 101
Chapter 9: On the Criticality of Resilience for Our Future World 125
Chapter 10: FOCUS 137
Chapter 11: On Building a Systematic, Continuous Innovation Capability 155
Chapter 12: FUEL 165
Chapter 13: On the Systematic Change Required in the Global Food System 183
Chapter 14: TRAIN 193
Chapter 15: On Learning and Development for Organizational Transformation 213
Chapter 16: Leading Change in the Triple Lens of Sustainability 225
References 237
Index 251

Promotional Information

Better executive health drives business performance and a stronger society. For the experienced manager as well as manager in training, business school professor and executive coach Steven P. MacGregor helps you leverage this truth in your life and your business.

MacGregor shares breakthrough insights and techniques he's honed through seven years of pioneering the world-renowned Sustaining Executive Performance (SEP) program and working with thousands of top executives worldwide. He reveals the profound connections between living a healthier, happier, and more productive life, and improving your organization on metrics ranging from innovation to resilience.

MacGregor addresses core business themes including design thinking, continuous innovation, and corporate social responsibility, linking these to the five elements of the SEP program: MOVE, RECOVER, FOCUS, FUEL, and TRAIN. He shows how the logic of individual action drives value at the business and societal levels, value that can be attained through small change.

Throughout you'll find interviews with leading executives and experts, and deep insights that connect the old and new world - from Ancient Chinese and Greek philosophy to the founding of the Modern Olympic Games, and contemporary visionaries such as Buckminster Fuller and Peter Drucker. Cutting edge research and contemporary business cases complement such timeless wisdom, and make it actionable for the modern-day manager.

About the Author

Steven P. MacGregor, PhD, is Founder of The LAB (Leadership Academy of Barcelona), which helps to develop talent from the world’s top enterprises in the fields of executive health and performance, design thinking, and sustainable innovation. Since 2010, he has worked with more than 5,000 executives from around the globe, through talks, workshops, and coaching, and has taught more than 250 classes at the best-ranked business schools and universities, including IESE, IMD, CEIBS, and Pompeu Fabra. An international-level duathlete, he has trained with Olympic athletes, Tour de France cyclists, and Ironman champions. A native of Motherwell, Scotland, he lives in Barcelona with his wife, Pamela, and sheepdog, Harry, and can be found on a frequent basis running up and down the mountain overlooking the city.

Reviews

“The best companies make the most of their most precious resource—human capital. Sustaining Executive Performance offers concrete guidance and a compelling rationale on how to achieve that. Critically, MacGregor shows that the responsibility for health and performance rests with ourselves and that this enhanced self-management enables us to exert a positive influence on those around us to create highperforming organizations.”
—Bernardo Quinn, Global Chief Human Resources Officer, Telefonica   “Here at last is a book that hardwires sustainability to the individual and shows clearly the way in which we may all contribute to a future world that is about more and better, not less and compromised. MacGregor presents a vision of executive health that is immediately applicable, practical, and grounded in sound business rationale—thereby making a significant contribution to sustainable value creation for the self, enterprise, and society.”
—Peter Lacy, Managing Director and Partner, Strategy & Sustainability Services, Asia Pacific Region, Accenture   “How you execute, and feel, as a leader changes throughout your career and is dependent upon many factors in your work and life. Sustaining Executive Performance brings together historic wisdom and modern research to set out the basis for sustained and effective leadership. MacGregor presents a compelling case for looking after one’s self that will sit with other critical business requirements, for even the most skeptical of minds. This book provides sound advice and reasoning on how to tune your body and mind to provide improved performance throughout your career.”
—Andrew Fenton, Vice President, Oracle UK, Ireland and Israel   “In our ever-complex world, organizations need to be thinking about all aspects of the health of their business. Steven MacGregor’s book shines a light on the three most important: employees, customers, and the community. In Sustaining Executive Performance, MacGregor provides the tools to help leaders at all levels of a business achieve balance and lasting success.
—Nathan Waterhouse, Cofounder and Managing Director of IDEO’s Collaborative Innovation Platform, OIEngine.com   “Sustaining Executive Performance offers today’s leaders the foundations for developing a new model of lifelong, personal advancement. Grounded in MacGregor’s personal experiences leading in the boardroom and on the trail, the SEP model can be integrated into one’s daily routine immediately.”
—William Cockayne, Ph.D., Lecturer at Stanford University and creator of the University’s Foresight Engineering program