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Performance at the Limit
Business Lessons from Formula 1 Motor Racing

2nd Edition

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Authors:
Mark Jenkins, Cranfield University, UK
Ken Pasternak, Inter Associates Ltd, Helsinki
Richard West, Richard West Associates

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Can you imagine your organisation as a Ferrari or a McLaren, a Toyota or a Force India? Your management team as a pit crew? Your sales force as the race team and your marketing and research department as the design studio creating a Formula 1 car? Formula 1 has an estimated turnover of $4bn, employs 50,000 people in more than 30 countries and has a foothold in every major and developing economy. With performance as the central focus of every organization, Performance at the Limit uses the case of Formula 1 motorsport as an example of how business can achieve optimal performance in highly competitive environments where dealing with change effectively is paramount. This second edition builds on the success of the first and contains a wealth of new material, including many more interviews with Formula 1 drivers and other key executives active in the sport.
- Drawn from real accounts of high performance over the last fifty years
- Based on rigorous primary research within leading Formula 1 teams, including Ferrari, McClaren, Renault and WilliamsF1
- Includes many more interviews with drivers and key executives in the industry
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'Having worked recently with Ron Dennis, Chairman and Chief Executive of McLaren Racing, at the Leaders in London summit, I witnessed Ron hold the thousand-strong business audience enthralled by the wafer-thin margins between success and failure in Formula 1. It was a master class in the mentality of a winner. This book brings alive some of the very points that Dennis made so well at the conference and much more beyond; with accurate insights, great anecdotes and first-class analysis. Performance at the Limit articulates perfectly the split-second gap between also-ran, good and great. It's all about leadership, preparation and amazing teamwork; without it you will simply fail to compete as those who have remained in pole position accepted long ago that 'good enough' is no longer good enough. So if you want to learn what it takes to get to the top and how to win, then this is the book for you.' René Carayol, Inspired Leaders Network and Cass Business School
'Formula 1 teaches us how to succeed in a challenging environment. The basic lesson is that it needs more than a skilled driver to win the race. In motorsports, change is a constant and being innovative is a necessity. To stay ahead of the competition, it is essential to have an excellent team on the track - a team showing an extraordinary performance and a passion for being the best. Performance at the Limit shows managers how these hard-won lessons can be applied to the ever-challenging world of business.' Kasper Rorsted, Chief Executive Officer, Henkel
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14th Sep 2015 by RCarmona
very interesting approach to using a sport such as Formula 1 to generate lessons for business. Well documented, and creative to extract learning from an unusual source. I found it very helpful for my business as I do extensive product design in a highly competitive area

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Product details
- Edition: 2nd Edition
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781107299153
- contains: 16 colour illus. 11 tables
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Note on the reference system
The Grand Prix experience
1. Introduction
2. Why Formula 1 motor racing?
3. The performance framework
4. The war for talent: the people in Formula 1
5. Winning through teamwork
6. Capability through partnerships
7. The high performance organisation
8. Integrating: effective leadership brings it all together
9. Innovating: the drive for continual change
10. Transforming: breaking out of the old ways
11. Achieving and sustaining performance
12. Twelve business lessons from Formula 1 motor racing
Appendix A. Grand Prix champions 1950–2007
Appendix B. Grand Prix graveyard 1950–2008
Appendix C. Interview respondents
References
Index
Colour plates 1-8 between pages
Colour plates 9-16 between pages.
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Authors
Mark Jenkins, Cranfield University, UK
Mark Jenkins is Professor of Business Strategy at Cranfield School of Management. He has twenty-one years' experience as a teacher and consultant in the areas of competitive strategy, knowledge management and innovation. He has undertaken research on the performance of Formula 1 teams since 1997.
Ken Pasternak, Inter Associates Ltd, Helsinki
Ken Pasternak delivers seminars for executives and advises banks and businesses in the areas of leadership and management, organisation development and teamwork. Based in Helsinki, his activities are focused in the USA and Europe, plus the CIS and other emerging economies. Previously, he worked for Citibank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Richard West, Richard West Associates
Richard West is a trained former automotive mechanic who transferred to the commercial side of Formula 1 motor racing in the early 1980s. During his career, he has worked with the McLaren, Williams and Arrows F1 teams as well as holding a Directorship of the Le Mans and Daytona 24 Hour Jaguar sports car teams. He successfully revitalised the British Touring Car Championship between 2000 and 2004 and in his career has raised in excess of 165 million dollars worth of sponsorship. Today he works as a keynote speaker and presenter for a growing range of national and international clients and has co-authored two books on the business of Formula 1 as well as co-presenting the BBC World TV series 'Formula for Success'. He is also frequently called upon as a facilitator and mediator at high level conferences.