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Under New Management shines a light on the companies that are experimenting with new and different models and policies for leading teams and managing people.
David Burkus is the author of The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas. David is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and Forbes. His work has been featured in Fast Company, Inc., the Financial Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, and on CBS This Morning.
Is your company ready for a radical departure from 20th-century
management standards and a bold move into a new approach? In UNDER
NEW MANAGEMENT, David Burkus has collected the stories of dozens of
companies that are making this journey. They're standing the old
rules on their heads and running their businesses with refreshing
amounts of transparency and autonomy. Even better, Burkus shows how
you can do it, too. -- Daniel H. Pink, bestselling author of
Drive and To Sell Is Human
David Burkus challenges established management principles and
reveals the counterintuitive practices that really drive
organizational performance. Under New Management makes a
provocative case that you should put customers second, close open
offices, and ditch performance appraisals. -- Adam Grant, Wharton
professor and New York Times bestselling author of Give
and Take and Originals
There are so many new ideas in management, it can seem pointless to
try and keep up. Burkus's book provides a whistlestop tour of fresh
ideas that work, from salary transparency to collaborate hiring via
alumni networks (McKinsey, he says, goes further by encouraging its
clients to hire its former staff). Readers of the business press
will find little new here, but it is concise, fun and jargon-free.
* People Management *
In Under New Management, Burkus hauls 20th-century
management ideas to the scrap heap while revealing counterintuitive
practices that will drive organizational performance in the back
half of the 21st century. And like any good manager, he
under-promises, and over-delivers. Under New Management is a
lively, provocative, must read. -- Whitney Johnson, Thinkers50,
World's Most Influential Management Thinkers, author of Disrupt
Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to
Work
Far from oozing theory written by those that have never done it,
this is an account of how successful and substantial businesses
adopted some revolutionary methods of addressing some
long-established challenges and ways of doing business with
outstanding results. The test cases are big companies but the
methods are as easily applicable to much smaller entities . . . How
to overthrow decades-old management practices and enjoy a
revolutionary insight into the 21st century working environment?
Read this book, it will stimulate any manager into examining how
they might do things better. -- Bob Lefroy * Business Money *
I can't stop raving about Under New Management to friends
and colleagues. If you are going to read one book on being a better
manager in the next year, start here. David Burkus has assembled
the most practical research and provocative ideas into an
incredibly quick read. -- Tom Rath, bestselling author of
Strengths Finder 2.0
Under New Management dares us to rethink some of our most
closely held assumptions about management - should we fire
managers? Pay people to quit? Celebrate departures? Burkus
masterfully questions so-called "best practices" and illustrates
how today's leading companies are unleashing human talent. If you
want to stay ahead in the new game of work, read this book! -- Liz
Wiseman, bestselling author of Multipliers and Rookie
Smarts
On Seinfeld, perpetual screw-up George Constanza eventually
realized that since every impulse he had turned out to be wrong, if
he simply did the opposite he would succeed. In David Burkus'
brilliant follow-up to the Myths of Creativity, he proves
(with data!) just how well that same bit of logic applies to modern
management. Get rid of your email, open offices, and performance
reviews. Let people take vacation whenever they want, and pay them
to quit. If what you're doing isn't working, Burkus will show you
what does. -- Heidi Grant Halvorson, bestselling author of No
One Understand You and What To Do About It
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