Jeremy Hope
Autore di Beyond Budgeting: How Managers Can Break Free from the Annual Performance Trap
Sull'Autore
Nota di disambiguazione:
(eng) Jeremy Hope who wrote Interlude in Norway, published in 1946, is most likely not the same author as Jeremy Hope who wrote the other books listed above
Opere di Jeremy Hope
Reinventing the CFO: How Financial Managers Can Transform Their Roles and Add Greater Value (2006) 36 copie
Beyond Performance Management: Why, When, and How to Use 40 Tools and Best Practices for Superior Business Performance (2012) 27 copie
The Leader's Dilemma: How to Build an Empowered and Adaptive Organization Without Losing Control (2011) 17 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- ukjent
- Nota di disambiguazione
- Jeremy Hope who wrote Interlude in Norway, published in 1946, is most likely not the same author as Jeremy Hope who wrote the other books listed above
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 7
- Utenti
- 170
- Popolarità
- #125,474
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 19
- Lingue
- 3
In this book, Hope and Player look at 40 of the most familiar management tools, and carefully examine their origins and purpose. And the heart of this examination are notes on how each can best be used in practice. The orientation turns on people-centered approach: "who is using the tool"?
So often, when a tool is not working, a manager will blame the tool. However, the authors suggest that it is often the case that the tool is simply not pushed or applied. For example, "open book management" relies on transparency, and its adoption across the company. It is easy to pay lip service to "sharing of knowledge". In practice, however, key managers may seek out and cling to a bottle-neck, preserving a fiefdom for themselves under the illusion of attaining privilege and security. Similarly, many managers reinforce a command-and-control mentality, which remains the dominant ethos in many workplaces in spite of talk about the benefits of a "free market". Managers seem to hold a belief about the robust productivity of individual freedom in a governmental setting, without seeing that the benefits accrue in any "corporate" setting. The authors note that "courage is in short supply".
The authors providing an unsparing critique of American business managers. The failure of executives and directors to appreciate the value of their own personnel is fatal to growth and business health. To this day, most businesses continue to sacrifice long-term profits for short-term cost-cutting without careful examination of the skills and relationships of the people--the power of a focused work force is etiolated by misdirected and blind greed in the Executive Suite.… (altro)