The Stillness Dividend

The book that introduced the ECI.

Move fast and keep it. The book makes the case, the ECI measures it.

Published 2026 by Rob Anderson and Alice Phillips. Cover line: “Coherence beats speed in the age of acceleration.”

Most companies do not fail on strategy. They fail on the distance between what was decided and what happened, and they find out from the P&L, months after it stopped being fixable.

Decisions made twice. Work sent back. Too much running at once. These are not morale problems. They are operating signals, and they can be counted long before they turn into financial ones.

The book sets out the instruments: the Execution Coherence Index, the Stillness Productivity Curve, and a pre-deal variant built for acquirers and investment committees. It is written for boards, chief executives and private equity operating partners.

This is a book about how to keep more of the speed you already have.

By Rob Anderson and Alice Phillips.