Managing by Values: Becoming a Fortunate 500 Organization - Hardcover

Blanchard, Ken; O′Connor, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1576750078 ISBN 13: 9781576750070

Publisher: Jossey Bass, 1996

Synopsis

Discover the untapped opportunity in your organization and its people. You′ve heard of Fortune 500 companies, but what about Fortunate 500 companies? Best–selling author Ken Blanchard explains that a Fortunate 500 company is defined not only by profitability, but by the quality of service it provides to customers and the quality of life it provides to its employees. Learn how to gain such benefits from the practical proven method known as Managing by Values.

About this title

About the Author

Ken Blanchard is chairman of Blanchard Training and Development, Inc., an international training company. He is the author or coauthor of thirteen books, including The One Minute Manager series, Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute., and Mission Possible. He is a visiting lecturer at Cornell University, where he also serves as Trustee Emeritus.
Michael O'Connor is the co-founder and director of the Center for Managing by Values. O'Connor is recognized as a "master" of behavioral research. With advanced degrees in the behavioral sciences and a Ph.D. in management, he specializes in the areas of strategy, behavior, and process-driven performance. The "Managing by Values" process is the culmination of his life's work consisting of over twenty-five years of research.

From the Back Cover

Today's business world is characterized by increasing change - technological, cultural, social, economic, and personal - the net effect of which is increasing anxiety, insecurity, and more pressure than perhaps ever before on today's employees, managers, and business owners. Managing By Values provides a practical, proven new solution for addressing these issues. Blanchard and O'Connor provide a framework for stability, continuity, and growth in the midst of these challenges. Written in the simple, direct story format that has become a trademark of Ken Blanchard's previous books, Managing By Values builds on the mass of diverse research, experiences, and literature on organizational, group, and individual performance and satisfaction. Based on the authors' research and applied real-world experience with client organizations, Managing By Values provides a practical, proven approach for how to give your organization the gift of a promising future while also discovering a way for all of its stakeholders to be satisfied in the process.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey Bass
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1576750078
• ISBN 13: 9781576750070
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 154