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Clever: Leading Your Smartest, Most Creative People
Rob Goffee
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Description for Clever: Leading Your Smartest, Most Creative People
Hardback. Leading clever people can be enormously challenging, yet doing so effectively is the key to your organization's sustained success. This book offers ideas, practices, and examples that you need to create an environment where your most brilliant people can flourish. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: KJMB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 22. Weight in Grams: 462.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
420g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781422122969
SKU
V9781422122969
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Rob Goffee
Rob Goffee is Professor of Organizational Behavior at London Business School, where he teaches in the world-renowned Senior Executive Programme. Gareth Jones is a Fellow of the Centre for Management Development at London Business School and a visiting professor at INSEAD, the international business school in Fontainebleau, France.
Reviews for Clever: Leading Your Smartest, Most Creative People
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 ... Read more