Grass Roots Management: How to grow initiative and responsibility in all your people - Softcover

Browning, Guy

 
9780273662990: Grass Roots Management: How to grow initiative and responsibility in all your people

Synopsis

Everybody talks about an empowered workforce but no one has one. Managers constantly complain that their people are more empowered than they think they are. They’ve told them they’re empowered, so why don’t their people act like it?

Firstly, it's not enough to just tell people they are empowered - you have to show them. And secondly, because from the beginning empowerment has been driven by consultants. It’s been delivered by high-cost, low-impact, top-down initiatives.

Now people in business are waking up to the fact that you can’t deliver empowerment with hit and run consultants. If you want your people to be engaged in and continually improving the business, they’ve got to be doing it for themselves.

The answer is Grass Roots Management. Give people the plans, tools, time, money and permission, and watch them build your business.

Available as a book or in dramatised audio book form on CD and cassette.

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About the Author

Guy Browning is a much admired business consultant and writer. The man behind the 'Office Politics' column in the Guardian for four years, he then moved on to the 'How To' column, showing how business principles can be applied to home life. He also writes 'Under the Seatbelt' for British Airways Business Life magazine, and 'Weak at the Top' for Management Today. In his spare time he runs a very successful innovation consultancy, Smokehouse.

From the Back Cover

Imagine your in-tray full of solutions not problems. Think of your team empowered and actually using its power. Visualise the whole workforce energised from the bottom up. You can make this happen. It's called Grass Roots Management How to get your people to take the initiative, take responsibility and take the business forward. Fast.

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