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Title: Peak Performance
Subtitle: How Denvers Peak Academy Is Saving Money, Boosting Morale, and Just Maybe Changing the World (And How You Can, Too!)
Author: J. B. Wogan, Brian Elms
Narrator: Brian Elms
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-28-17
Publisher: Governing, a division of e.Republic
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Business, Management
Publisher's Summary:
When Denver Mayor Michael Hancock took office in 2011, he inherited an $80 million budget shortfall and a government workforce that had been through multiple rounds of cuts and furloughs. Morale was low. He needed a way to drive greater efficiency, cost saving, and improved performance - and he had to do it in-house, on a shoe-string budget.
Enter Peak Academy, the coaching and innovation program Mayor Hancock created to teach frontline city employees how to tackle small problems and deliver big results. In four years, Peak Academy trained 5,000 government staff in the fundamentals of lean manufacturing and other process management techniques. More than 2,000 employee-driven innovations later, the program had saved Denver an estimated $15 million. Word got out, and dozens of other governments sent their staffs to Denver or hired Peak Academy to bring the training to them.
In this fun, easy-to-follow guide, Peak Academy director Brian Elms and governing staff writer J. B. Wogan deliver the basics for the rest of us, with a surprisingly frank discussion about how hard it was to get the program off the ground. Experience a thoughtful exploration of both the challenges faced and the reasons why Peak ultimately succeeded. Get a clear overview of Peak Academy training methods and tools (including yes, all those yellow stickies). See concrete examples of employee-driven innovations - many of which sound, in hindsight, like $40,000 no-brainers, until you realize there are hundreds of similar and much-needed fixes in every workplace.
Peak Performance is an audiobook that will help public sector leaders replicate the Peak model. It's an audiobook for government managers to listen to and talk about with their teams. But most importantly, it's an audiobook for anyone working in government at any level - about the power of good ideas to improve the way government works.
Members Reviews:
Five Stars
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Peak Performance
Amazing book and great information on implementing lean
With great support from Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock, The Dever Peak Academy was founded in 2011.
Challenged with budget shortfalls and economical mayhem from the recent 2007-2011 financial crisis, Peak Performance founders Brian Elms, Brendan Hanlon, David Edinger and Scotty Martin discovered an interesting phenomenonâgive your front-line the power to innovate.
With great support from Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock, The Denver Peak Academy was founded in 2011. PEAK Performance: How Denverâs Peak Academy is saving millions of dollars, boosting moral and just maybe changing the world. (And how you can, too!) is an engaging book depicting a collection of innovative stories that leads the reader to understand some of the trials and tributes that the Peak team have endured.
If you are looking for a âDummiesâ book on how to start your own Peak Academy, this is not it. Those books work great for teaching us how to perform math equations or drive a car. Nevertheless, creating a culture for innovation is not as simple as putting your car in gear and driving away into the sunsetâeven then can that activity be blinding.
