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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824852003321

Autore

Delbridge Rick

Titolo

The exceptional manager : making the difference / / Rick Delbridge, Lynda Gratton, and Gerry Johnson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2006

ISBN

1-383-04388-4

1-280-75630-6

0-19-155891-5

1-4237-5735-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 264 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

658.4

Soggetti

Management by exception

Executive ability

Strategic planning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Making a difference -- Building on the national context -- Transforming strategy -- Managing employment relations -- Innovating beyond the steady state -- Measuring performance in innovative firms -- Adopting promising practices -- Learning in organizations -- Making intelligent decisions -- Cooperating across boundaries -- Overcoming busyness -- Taking the first steps.

Sommario/riassunto

Most businesses face the choice of either competing on the 'low road' of cost, or the 'high road' of innovation and value. Much the same goes for national economies and the UK is no exception. But how do businesses - and the people who manage them - go beyond the policy prescription and the easy exhortation to make that shift, to manage change and go well beyond business as usual? This ground-breaking book - the combined insight of some of the best minds in management, grouped together in the Advanced Institute of Management Research - does just that. It presents a clear and crisp analysis of the context and the challenge; and offers managers a range of ideas on how to develop the competences, practices and values that can make a difference. It is essential reading for policy makers,



analysts, academics, and managers to be who want to make a different future.