Under New Management
26 January 2017
Imprint: Pan
Synopsis
Nearly 70 per cent of employees in the UK aren't performing at their full potential. At the roots of this problem are the policies and systems built to 'manage' these employees, which were designed for a different era - the industrial economy.
In the tradition of Jim Collins' bestselling Good to Great, in Under New Management David Burkus, psychologist, professor...
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26 January 2017
256 pages
9781509801732
Imprint: Pan
Reviews
Is your company ready for a radical departure from 20th-century management standards and a bold move into a new approach? In Under New Management, David Burkus has collected the stories of dozens of companies that are making this journey. They're standing the old rules on their heads and running their businesses with refreshing amounts of transparency and autonomy. Even better, Burkus shows how you can do it, too.Daniel H. Pink, bestselling author of Drive and To Sell Is Human
I can't stop raving about Under New Management to friends and colleagues. If you are going to read one book on being a better manager in the next year, start here. David Burkus has assembled the most practical research and provocative ideas into an incredibly quick read.Tom Rath, bestselling author of Strengths Finder 2.0
In Under New Management, Burkus hauls 20th-century management ideas to the scrap heap while revealing counterintuitive practices that will drive organizational performance in the back half of the 21st century. And like any good manager, he under-promises, and over-delivers. Under New Management is a lively, provocative, must read.Whitney Johnson, Thinkers 50, World's Most Influential Management Thinkers, author of Disrupt Yourself: Putting The Power of Disruptive Innovation Into Your Work
David Burkus challenges established management principles and reveals the counterintuitive practices that really drive organizational performance. Under New Management makes a provocative case that you should put customers second, close open offices, and ditch performance appraisals.Adam Grant, Wharton professor and New York Times bestselling author Give And Take and Originals