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Lead for Speed

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Paperback: 9781917490610

Ebook: 9781917490627

Date: 22nd October 2026

Extent: 160 pages

Size: 234x156mm, portrait

Text: Black

Subject: Leadership

Rights available: Worldwide

Lead for Speed

How to build an organisation that delivers at pace

by Margaret Exley CBE

Description

Why do some organisations consistently deliver while others struggle?

It isn’t that they work harder.  It’s that they know how to turn decisions into action and ideas into results faster.

 

They’ve learned how to turn strategy and policy into delivery – quickly, consistently and at scale.

Yet many organisations aren’t designed to deliver. Projects stall, opportunities are missed and talented people spend more time navigating systems than delivering outcomes.

In a fast-changing world, the cost of slow delivery has never been higher. Whether it’s government policy or business strategy, those that succeed adapt quickly, make faster decisions and translate ambition into action.

Lead for Speed provides a practical blueprint for transforming organisational performance.

It shows leaders in government, public services or private companies how to remove the barriers that hold progress back and build an organisation capable of sustained delivery.

Drawing on more than forty years’ experience of advising governments, public bodies and private sector organisations, Margaret Exley CBE shares the principles and practices that make delivering at pace possible, without sacrificing quality, engagement or good judgement.

Inside, you’ll discover how to:

  • build a culture where delivery becomes everyone’s focus.

  • make better, faster decisions and execute with confidence.

  • align accountability, ownership and momentum across the organisation.

  • build lasting organisational capability that delivers results.

  • use communication to energise and mobilise.

 

Grounded in decades of real-world experience, Lead for Speed is a proven framework for leading organisations that don’t just make plans, but make things happen.

About the author

Margaret Exley CBE is a recognised authority on organisational effectiveness, leadership and transformational change, with more than four decades of experience helping senior leaders build organisations that deliver.

Having founded and led several successful consulting businesses, Margaret has advised boards, chief executives and government departments on organisation design, culture, strategy implementation and leadership. Her work spans both the public and private sectors, giving her a unique perspective on what enables large, complex organisations to translate ambition into action.

 

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