WIE Managing for Excellence: The Guide to Developing High Performance in Contemporary Organizations - Softcover

Bradford, David L.; Cohen, Allan R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471858072 ISBN 13: 9780471858072

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1987

Synopsis

"Managing for Excellence is above all usable. Its helpful, down–to–earth advice can transform any leader from merely good to positively outstanding. These are the ideas managers can not only admire but act on as well–the highest compliment for a manager′s guidebook." –Rosabeth Moss Kanter Author of The Change Masters

The bestseller that revolutionized management′s vision of itself

In the mid–1980s, the notion that the most successful managers are no longer heroic, but share power and responsibility, was so revolutionary that it bordered on heresy. But the ideas championed by David Bradford and Allan Cohen in Managing for Excellence proved so effective that, virtually overnight, thousands of skeptical upper–level managers became true believers.

Managing for Excellence isn′t just for CEOs, presidents, and veeps–the battle–tested methods laid out in this book help middle managers turn the strategic designs of upper management into reality. Bradford and Cohen reveal how great managers succeed by bringing out the best in their employees. They show managers how to:
∗ Develop a cohesive team that jointly owns critical management issues
∗ Deal with difficult problems head–on and make core decisions through consensus
∗ Encourage healthy competition against objective standards of excellence
∗ Be decisive leaders while encouraging input from team members
∗ Manage daily procedures, adapt to change, and maintain a vision of the future simultaneously

About this title

Synopsis

"Managing for Excellence" is a new approach to managing people that enables you to raise performance from merely good to positively outstanding. Bradford and Cohen's "Manager as Developer" concept has proved itself in many companies, both small and large. Demonstrating a fundamental shift in the roles of superiors and subordinates, "Managing for Excellence" shows managers how to get their staffs to share responsibility for managing a unit. Subordinates then feel the same responsibility as the manager for the way the unit works. This is not soft management, but a tough, pragmatic way to get commitment, build high performance and develop people for greater responsibility. The "Manager as Developer" concept has been quietly changing the way managers do their jobs and making organizations more competitive and profitable.

About the Author

DAVID L. BRADFORD is Senior Lecturer at Stanford University′s Graduate School of Business and an active management consultant. ALLAN R. COHEN is Academic Vice President and Dean of Faculty at Babson College. He is the editor of The Portable MBA in Management, also available from Wiley. Professors Bradford and Cohen are the authors of Influence Without Authority.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471858072
• ISBN 13: 9780471858072
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320