Freedom Inc: Free Your Employees and Let Them Lead Your Business to Higher Productivity, Profits, and Growth - Hardcover

Carney, Brian M.; Getz, Isaac

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0307409384 ISBN 13: 9780307409386

Publisher: Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House Inc, 2009

Synopsis

Makes recommendations for safeguarding financial interests in today's troubled economic market and in the future, outlining the coauthor's program for maximizing employee initiative and potential while sharing the success stories of such companies as Gore and Harley-Davidson.

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Review

"When do you do your best work? When told how to do your job, or when you know - and embrace-the reason why you are working? We all know the answer. Carney and Getz help you apply this fundamental insight to liberate your company, your employees, and your life. This thrilling book has the cure for what ails most companies, and perhaps even most economies." -Jonathan Haidt, New York University Stern School of Business, author of the Righteous Mind "Carney and Getz show that organizations that spend the time, money, and eort on the 'so' stu of organization's culture end up with truly empowered workforces." -Strategy + Business "Messrs. Carney and Getz offer portraits of chief executives who guided their businesses to prosperity by freeing up talent." -Wall Street Journal "Carney and Getz book's central point: If you give your workers maximum freedom they will lead your business to higher productivity, pro ts, and growth." -New York Times "Brian Carney and Isaac Getz take us into companies that have made freedom their lifeblood - companies that trust their employees and liberate them, counting on those employees to act in the best interests of the company, and taking advantage of that passion to achieve enviable corporate nancial results." -Globe and Mail

About the Author

BRIAN M. CARNEY is a London-based member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal and the editorial page editor of theWall Street Journal Europe. In 2009 he won the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary, and in 2003 he won the Bastiat Prize for Journalism for his writings on business and economic affairs. After majoring in philosophy at Yale, he earned a master’s degree in philosophy from Boston University and worked at the Innovations in American Government program at Harvard University before joining theWall Street Journal in 2000.

ISAAC GETZ is a professor at the top-ranked ESCP Europe Business School and holds Ph.D.s in psychology and management. He has been a visiting professor at Cornell, Stanford, and the University of Massachusetts. Dr. Getz conducts and publishes research on innovation, leadership, and corporate transformation for excellence and growth and speaks on these topics. His work has been featured in theWall Street Journal, Financial Times, and many other media.

About this edition

• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0307409384
• ISBN 13: 9780307409386
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336