Bernie Haffey
About
Bernie Haffey started his professional career as a physics teacher and ice hockey coach at Delbarton School in Morristown, NJ. This early experience in teaching, science and team sports shaped much of his approach to business. Upon graduation from business school, he worked as a product manager in Hewlett-Packard’s Medical Products Group in Waltham, MA. He then moved to Mentor Corp., ascending from New England sales representative to Vice President of Sales and Marketing. From Mentor he moved to Summit Technology, Inc. where he assumed the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer through its $1 billion sale to Alcon Labs. Bernie held the same role, EVP and CCO, at Intralase Corp. through its $800 million sale to Advanced Medical Optics (now Johnson&Johnson). From there he successfully served as President and CEO of two venture-backed start-ups: NDO Surgical, Inc. and Nexis Vision. Bernie also previously served as a founding board member at WaveTec Vision, Inc. (acquired by Alcon Labs) and at Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. (NASDAQ: OCUL) and currently serves on the board of On Target Laboratories, Inc. Bernie now runs Haffey&Co., a management consulting firm that has supported more than fifty organizations. Bernie earned a BA from Colgate University and an MBA from Cornell University.
Cutting Through: Your Company's High Performance Management System
The financial health of your organization depends on it! Bernie Haffey’s Cutting Through is a comprehensive exploration into the nuances of the key high performance management systems that turn good companies into great ones!
SUCCESS BEGINS WITH A SYSTEM!
Doctors, mechanics, pilots…. What do all of these professionals have in common? Simple: each operates within the framework of an established set of principles that guides all they do. Just as you wouldn’t build a house by first tacking on a roof, you can’t expect your business to flourish without understanding the underlying mechanisms that drive it.
You need a foundation, an order, a system.
Cutting Through is the blueprint to discovering and optimizing that system. The ideological quicksand of leadership trial-by-fire is gone. The best businesses of tomorrow will need to be equipped with a robust management system that drives performance from the ground up! How do you get there? Here’s a hint: you can’t intuit it, it’s going to take some work.
Keep reading to:
Discover the Six Pillars of a High Performance Management System
Understand the methodology behind building an effective coalition of in-house ambassadors that will champion your management values and ideals
Ascertain the significance of “the first follower”
Define and direct your company culture within the framework of your larger HPMS
Discover the power of the subtraction, elimination and simplification
Understand how some of the world’s leading companies like Ford, Medtronic, Ritz Carlton, IBM, Amazon and many others implemented their own HPMS
Learn how to pinpoint the Vital Few while incorporating the remainder into a unified, cohesive system
Achieve world-class customer, employee and financial results
Cutting Through is the comprehensive answer to the question: Why is my business underperforming, and more importantly, what can I do about it?
Eliminate, simplify and optimize your internal processes to achieve breakthrough business results!