Ideas are Free (EasyRead Large Bold Edition): How the Idea Revolution is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations - Softcover

Robinson, Alan G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1442962313 ISBN 13: 9781442962316

Verlag: Readhowyouwant, 2009

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Performance expectations for managers keep going up. Managers are continually asked to do more, but to do it with less. For top management, the standard response to flagging profits and increasing competition has become budget cuts and layoffs. Middle managers and supervisors suffer the consequences, as they are left with too few resources and people to do the work. They are forced to operate in survival mode, putting in long hours to deal with an endless stream of urgent problems. Almost never do they have the time to think beyond this month's results. In addition, they are under constant scrutiny, and their jobs are not secure. Ironically, help is closer than they realize - in the people who work for them. They are the ones who do the work, and they see many things their managers don't. On a daily basis, they see what is frustrating customers, causing waste, or generally holding the organization back. Employees often know how to improve performance and reduce costs more intelligently than their bosses do. Yet they are rarely given a chance to do anything about it. No one asks them for their ideas. Over the last century, many managers have recognized the huge potential in employee ideas and tried to tap it. But few have been truly successful. Those few found that they had fundamentally changed their organizations and helped them reach extraordinary levels of performance. Today, most managers either don't realize the full power of employee ideas or have never learned how to deal with them effectively. That is why we wrote Ideas Are Free.We hope that you enjoy Ideas Are Free and that it makes you a better leader. ----Preface

Biografía del autor

Alan G. Robinson is an award-winning author, an educator, and a consultant. He is co-author of Corporate Creativity, which was a finalist for the Financial Times/Booz Allen & Hamilton Global Best Business Book Award, and was named ''Book of the Year'' by the Academy of Human Resource Management. He has a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University and a B.A./M.A. from the University of Cambridge. He teaches at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Dr. Robinson has advised more than a hundred companies and government agencies in eleven countries.

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• Verlag: Readhowyouwant
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1442962313
• ISBN 13: 9781442962316
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 308