CHAPTER 9

Celebrate, Learn, and Repeat

... Achieving a goal, accomplishing a task, or resolving a problem often evoked great pleasure and sometimes elation. Even making good progress towards such goals could elicit the same reactions.

—Teresa Amabile, 2011 [247]

Having gone through the pain of putting in a new way of working that incorporates resource productivity and identifying and implementing a series of resource-saving projects, many companies take a step back assuming that the system would run itself.

At this point, while the resource productivity projects may be complete, the Strategy-to-Execution Premium itself is still not self-sustaining—it is missing one last element, that is, closing the loop and renewing the efforts. This is an ...

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