Clever

Leading Your Smartest, Most Creative People

By: Rob Goffee, Gareth Jones

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Hardcover | 25 August 2009

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If your company is like most, it has a handful of people who generate disproportionate quantities of value: A researcher creates products that bankroll the entire organization for decades. A manager spots consumer-spending patterns no one else sees and defines new market categories your enterprise can serve. A strategist anticipates global changes and correctly interprets their business implications.

Companies'' competitiveness, even survival, increasingly hinge on such "clever people." But the truth is, clever people are as fiercely independent as they are clever-they don''t want to be led. So how do you corral these players in your organization and inspire them to achieve their highest potential?

In Clever, Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones offer potent insights drawn from their extensive research. The authors explain how to:

-Identify your clever people and their motivations

-Shelter your "clevers" from political distractions that can inhibit their productivity

-Help clevers generate even more value by creating clever teams

-Manage the unique tensions that can arise when clevers work together

Leading clever people can be enormously challenging, yet doing so effectively is the key to your organization''s sustained success. Lively and engaging, this book provides the ideas, practices, and examples you need to create an environment where your most brilliant people can flourish.

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Some big fibs have endured longer than any others. "The cheque's in the post," for example. Or: "No, darling, you look lovely in that." And finally: "Our people are our biggest asset." Here is a terrific new book that explodes the last item in that unholy trinity. The truth is that not every employee is such a huge asset, or "talent", to use the fashionable term. Only some of your people are your biggest asset. The point is to spot them, nurture them - and know when to leave them well alone... ...These are the people who, in your business, are going to make the difference between just getting by and excelling. They have vast potential. Handle with care. - The Financial Times, September 3, 2009

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Non-Fiction Business & Management Business Communication & Presentation Management & Management Techniques Leadership & Motivation for Management Office & Workplace

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xv
Leader and Led
Understanding Clever People	p. 3
What Can Leaders Do?	p. 35
Clever Teams	p. 67
The Anatomy of Clever Teams	p. 67
Breaking the Code of Clever Teams	p. 101
Clever Organizations
Contours of the Clever Organization	p. 121
The Future of Clever Organizations	p. 149
Notes	p. 169
Index	p. 173
About the Authors	p. 181
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Leading Your Smartest, Most Creative People

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