The Critical Path Manifesto: How "knowing-what-to-do" separates winners from losers

About this book

In my previous research on star performers, I only got the answer to on-going high performance half-right. It is not just how the stars do their jobs that separates them from their average peers. What I’ve learned in the following years is that the stars also distinguish themselves by what they work on. They identify what makes a difference for the company’s economic success, i.e the critical path, and then they apply their star work strategies to those tasks. By not getting on the critical path, too many employees make themselves average and dispensable. In contrast, stars align with and add value to the critical path, thus making themselves indispensable.