Five reasons every company should strive to achieve high performance

摘要

The list of reasons why companies and executives shy away from pursuing high performance is long. Accenture's extensive research into the characteristics of high performers, however, has revealed a number of powerful and counterintuitive arguments for going for it anyway. This article is one in a series excerpted from Outlook, our journal of high-performance business. The content derives from our groundbreaking research, initiated in 2003, to empirically determine the characteristics that enable high-performance businesses to consistently outperform their peers over the long term. Thus far, over 6,000 companies have been studied, including more than 500 that meet our criteria as high performers.