Book Review: Thrive — “Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast”

Thrive by Andrew Freeman & Paul Elliott is just one of the thousands of books that are published annually promising to help businesses run more effectively.

Some of these books are high-level, with plenty of pseudo-profound and theoretical strategies for improving business performance. Others get down and dirty with more actionable steps and a coroner’s approach to business roadblocks: carefully removing all the company’s organs and painstakingly inspecting them for disease and sclerosis.

Thankfully for the reader, Thrive doesn’t spend a lot of time in the clouds. Instead, Thrive teaches leaders how to create clarity and alignment around what high performance looks like and how to replicate it at scale, identify and eliminate barriers to performance excellence, effectively align individual and team priorities with those of the company, and build organizational systems and processes that accelerate business and financial results.

The book provides leaders with a clear blueprint for building a high-performance culture. Drawing on extensive experience in change management, organizational development, and performance consulting, Thrive focuses on removing obstacles to high performance.

One of the five-star reviews on Amazon said it best: “The book is well-structured…