Metronomics

Business leaders often collect books from respected voices in the field, and most of those books focus closely on one discipline, such as strategy, execution, cash, people, culture, or leadership. Each offers useful ideas, but the harder problem is combining them into one routine that serves a whole organization, and the leader's life outside work too.

Metronomics takes on that problem. Shannon Susko draws on more than two decades of hands-on experience and pairs it with leading business thinking to lay out a step-by-step growth framework meant for any company. The goal is to help leaders build a team that produces strong results with relative ease, speed, and assurance, and to show how every member can stay closely tied to the company's strategic execution system through a practical sequence of stages.

The method is designed to start wherever a team currently stands. It is meant to meet readers at their present level and then keep pace as the business moves to the next stage and beyond. The book describes this approach as a well-kept business secret that has been kept under wraps for twenty years, and it suggests that a company using it can come out ahead in its own yearly competition while the leader gains more freedom.