Hot Spots Why some companies buzz with energy and innovation - and others don't

Format:	Hardback (Visa alla format)
Förlag:	Financial Times/ Prentice Hall (2007)
Språk:	English
Artikelid:	9780273711469
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¿Just about the worst affliction a company can suffer from is sluggishness. In Hot Spots, Lynda Gratton prescribes the antidote. It¿s as energizing a book as the management actions it so convincingly recommends.¿

Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO, WPP

Why do some companies and teams buzz with energy, innovation and creativity? Why do these flares of activity occur in some companies and teams and not in others? How can you avoid the Big Freeze and instead encourage these centres of creativity, action and energy?

You always know when you are in a Hot Spot. You feel energized and vibrantly alive. The atmosphere is charged with a buzz of ideas and dynamic creativity. Hot Spots are the times and places in some companies and teams where unexpected cooperation and collaboration flourish, creating great energy, productivity and excitement.

This ground-breaking new book from management guru Lynda Gratton addresses just these questions. It is based on extensive research with industry leaders such as BP, Nokia, Adidas, Linux, Goldman Sachs, Ogilvy One, Unilever and Reuters. Gratton explores the conditions and environments that are conducive to the creation of Hot Spots and in doing so she offers you a range of invaluable tools for achieving higher levels of effectiveness and productivity than you ever thought possible.

¿A must-read for anyone keen to move from the 'Big Freeze' of inertia to the energy of Hot Spots.¿

Tom Glocer, CEO, Reuters Group PLC

¿¿ takes the conversation about the future of companies to a new level of debate.

Hallstein Moerk, Executive Vice President, Global HR, Nokia

'Our capacity to add real value depends on the way in which our talented people across the world work creatively with each other...in Hot Spots, Lynda Gratton has provided a critical blue print to guide executives in managing this complexity ¿ and ensuring that diversity is a real and lasting creator of value."  

Jeremy Isaacs, CEO, Europe & Asia, Lehman Brothers

 

 

(Pearson)

Dr Lynda Gratton is Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour at London Business School. She has been named the number 1 strategic thinker in the world in an article published in the periodical Strategic Human Resource Management and has also been named as one of the premier business and management thinkers in the world. The Financial Times (December 1, 2005) has published a list compiled every two years of the top 50 business thinkers in the world, and Lynda is number 34 on the list.

(Pearson)

CONTENTS

Publisher's Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction: Elements for Creating Hot Spots

1: Generating Extraordinary Energy

2: Hot Spots Burning Bright Across the World.

3: The First Element: A Cooperative Mindset

4: The Second Element: Boundary Spanning

5: The Third Element: Igniting Purpose

6: The Fourth Element: Productive Capacity

7: The Leader's role in Hot Spots

8: Designing for the Emergence of Hot Spots

Appendix A: Resources for Creating Hot Spots

Appendex B: Background to the Research on Hot Spots

Appendix C: Methodology of the Hot Spots Research

Notes

Index

About the author

(Pearson)

"...grappling with perhaps the biggest management challenge of our
times ...Gratton has written a succinct and utterly compelling book. She is
really a kind of one-woman hot spot herself." Stefan Stern, The Financial Times, February 2007

"...confirming [Gratton's] position as one of the few female management gurus globally " People Management February 2007 "Lynda Gratton is set to be catapulted to the very top of the tree as far as management gurus are concerned ... if we could just perfect the Dolly-the-sheep cloning tecnology and get a few more Grattons out there, we would really be in business." - Accounting & Business Magazine April 2007 "This stimulating book ... will bring her a keen readership among business leaders." Director April 2007

(Pearson)