Scaling up Excellence - Softcover

Scaling up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 368 pages. In Scaling Up Excellence, bestselling author Robert Sutton and Stanford colle ague Huggy Rao tackle a challenge that determines every organization?s success : scaling up farther, faster, and more effectively as a program or an organizati on creates a larger footprint. Sutton and Rao have devoted much of the last deca de to uncovering what it takes to build and uncover pockets of exemplary perform ance, to help spread them, and to keep recharging organizations with ever better work practices. Drawing on inside accounts and case studies and academic resear ch from a wealth of industries ? including start-ups, pharmaceuticals, airline s, retail, financial services, high-tech, education, non-profits, government, an d healthcare -- Sutton and Rao identify the key scaling challenges that confront every organization. They tackle the difficult trade-offs that organizations mus t make between ?Buddhism? versus ?Catholicism? -- whether to encourage i ndividualized approaches tailored to local needs or to replicate the same practi ces and customs as an organization or program expands. They reveal how the best leaders and teams develop, spread, and instill the right mindsets in their peopl e -- rather than ruining or watering down the very things that have fueled succe ssful growth in the past. They unpack the principles that help to cascade excell ence throughout an organization, as well as show how to eliminate destructive be liefs and behaviors that will hold them back.Scaling Up Excellence is the first major business book devoted to this universal and vexing challenge. It is destined to become the standard bearer in the field. Artikel-Nr. 6491ai

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