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.
*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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