Exceptional Manager

Making the Difference

By: Rick Delbridge, Lynda Gratton, Gerry Johnson, The AIM Fellows

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Hardcover | 30 March 2006

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288 Pages

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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.

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`Conventional wisdom suggests that economic competitiveness is assured simply through deregulation and getting government out of the economy. The evidence suggests, however, that what organizational leaders do matters a great deal for both countries and companies. This book speaks to the necessary mind set and activities of managers who want to see their organizations thrive in a world of increasing global competition around innovation and ideas. ' Jeffrey Pfeffer, Professor, Stanford Business School and co-author of Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management `Clarity and good sense are surprisingly rare qualities in a book on corporate management. This book combines both, and will help managers to think more clearly about what they are trying to achieve, and policy-makers to understand better why some companies thrive and others fail.' Frances Cairncross, Chair, Economic and Social Research Council and Rector, Exeter College, Oxford `Managers make less difference to businesses than they - or the public - think. This book explains why - and what can be done about it.' John Kay, author of The Foundations of Corporate Success `'The book is a lucid and powerful exposition of how the exceptional manager of its title should go about this task.'' Robert Bruce, Accountancy `packed with constructive ideas' Director

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