Six Disciplines studied what high performance organizations do, in contrast with low performing organizations.

They found a number of factors that stood out as most significant. In fact, they found that high performing organizations scored much higher in each of these key areas:

These were the top success factors for high performing organizations:

• A strong senior leadership team.
• The organization's ability to attract and retain quality people.
• The organization's ability to adopt a disciplined approach to the business including working on the business to create plans and align the employees to execute the business plans.
• High performance organizations made strategic use of technology.
• High performance organizations developed relationships with trusted outside providers such as attorneys, finance and accounting professionals, and insurance professionals.
• High performance organizations had a culture of team work and commitment.
• High performance organizations had a commitment to a quality-oriented culture.

You can read the complete research findings about high performance organizations in this white paper that you can access from their home page - lower left corner: The Best VS. the Rest^[1].

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