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How to Manage in a Flat World: Get connected to your team - wherever they are: Financial Times Series

Autor Susan Bloch, Philip Whiteley
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 aug 2007
Thanks to the internet and a globalising economy, businesses today are often stretched across different locations and different time zones, and increasingly communicate online rather than face-to-face. For a manager, it is very hard to manage and motivate a team that spans continents. Managing in a Flat World gives today's manager much-needed advice on how to communicate, manage and motivate in the flattened company and how to operate effectively in the flat world.
Within this book, authors Susan Bloch and Philip Whitely expose insights from in-depth interviews and research with managers and leaders in global businesses to show the successes, struggles and triumphs amid a constant battle for balance within a changing world, based on technology. You can learn from their experience how best to collaborate as teams and groups within the flat economy, how to equip yourself as a team leader or team member with fresh ideas on ways of working with your colleagues so as to make the most of the advantages that the networked world can offer.
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780273712459
ISBN-10: 0273712454
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Pearson Education
Colecția Financial Times/ Prentice Hall
Seria Financial Times Series

Locul publicării:Harlow, United Kingdom

Cuprins

 
INTRODUCTION Part 1: The Team
Chapter 1 ‘Flat’ teams need direction Chapter 2 The medium and the message
Chapter 3 Does culture still matter?Chapter 4 Engage leadership skills: Command and control doesn’t work Chapter 5: Teams are not self-assembly
 
 
Part 2: The Individual
 
Chapter 6 EQ is not enough: intelligence matters
 
Chapter 7 Keeping a life: questions of balance in the flat world
 
Chapter 8 Ten strategies for managing in a flat world
 
Conclusion
 
 

Recenzii

They write convincingly about how different cultures emerge within the same organisation... in a simple, succinct style that helped clarify my thinking in this very interesting area. - Human Resources, June 2008

Notă biografică

Susan Bloch. Over the past ten years Susan has assisted numerous organisations to build leadership capability and effective teams to ensure business success, coaching business leaders in manufacturing, financial services, construction, retailing and telecommunications. Clients include:  Reuters, Prudential, Shell, Unilever, Philips, Sony, BT, Barclays, Standard Chartered and Accenture.
She has an MA in Psychology from Colombia University, and is a chartered psychologist. Susan is a fellow of Ashoka, a global charity that supports social entrepreneurs.
Philip Whiteley is a freelance author and journalist, specialising in management, with a particular focus on the management of people. He is the author of numerous books including  Unshrink the People with Max Mckeown, and he and Susan are co-authors of Complete Leadership.
Philip contributes regularly to leading business titles, including Director, Personnel Today and Global HR and writes a weekly column in The Times on executive compensation, called Packages.

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Title How to Manage in a Flat World
Subtitle Get connected to your team – wherever they are
Authors Susan Bloch & Philip Whiteley
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[ BACK JACKET ]
 
 
‘A rare and refreshingly authentic perspective of working and managing in the multi-dimensional world.’
Dominic Price, Managing Director, Senior Country Officer, India and Sri Lanka, JP Morgan
 
‘Flat hierarchies and well rounded people sounds like square pegs and round holes. This well-researched book, rich in anecdote, shows how today's business leaders get the best from their teams against the real world constraints of budgets and time.’
Garry Watts, Chief Executive Officer, SSL International Plc
 
 
In the flat world you need new horizons
The world is now flat: the economy is global: the company is less hierarchical. Everything is more fluid. So what should you do about it? As a manager, are you equipped to manage teams that span offices, cities or even continents? Can you maintain a work-life balance when technology means you are always available? And now we have the internet do you ever need to meet anyone in person again? How to Manage in a Flat World brings you up to speed on the critical issues you can’t ignore and shows you how even in the flat world you can be a stand out manager.
 
[FRONT FLAP ]
 
In business today, you are always switched on. Your laptop is at hand, the web will answer your queries in a matter of seconds and your colleagues and friends are just a few clicks away, wherever they may be. Very convenient, yes. Lean and modern, yes. More productive and more efficient? Possibly. But only if you get it right. The flat world has both high levels of interconnectivity facilitated by technology and high levels of dispersion within teams and companies, with colleagues often working in different offices, or even in different parts of the world. This demands a new set of skills and behaviours of you as a manager.
 
How to Manage in a Flat World gives you the ten strategies  you need to be a high-performing manager. The key is to communicate well and collaborate closely with your team, even if you don’t see them in person very often. This practical yet well researched book draws on interviews with leading international executives and leaders from all over the world and will help you:
 
  • Make the best use of technology to stay in touch with your colleagues
  • Establish and maintain an acceptable work-life balance for yourself
  • Decide when you really need to travel to meet people face-to-face
  • Lead and motivate your team, wherever they are
  • Create a culture of trust and motivation that will lead to higher performance
  • Prepare for and adapt to change so that you are not left behind
 
LEARN HOW TO BE A STAND-OUT MANAGER IN A FLAT WORLD
 
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About the authors
 
Susan Bloch has coached top teams in many of the FTSE100 and Fortune 500 companies across the globe over the past twenty years. She has lived and worked in five countries; South Africa, North America, Israel, the United Kingdom and India.  Currently, she is on assignment as Chief Culture Officer for the Retail division of Reliance Industries; one of the few western women working in a senior role in an Indian company.  Prior to that she was Partner and Head of Thought Leadership at Whitehead Mann where she was operating as an executive coach, working with executive teams and conducting board effectiveness reviews. Previously she was global head of executive coaching for the Hay Group. A Chartered Psychologist, with an MA from Columbia University in NY, Susan has co-authored Employability and Complete Leadership, and has produced a number of research publications.
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Philip Whiteley is an author and journalist, specializing in management, particularly the areas of leadership, motivation and strategic people management. He has written numerous articles for The Times, Personnel Today and Coaching at Work  amongst other titles, and has appeared on BBC Newsnight discussing the portrayal of the workplace in the media. He is author of People Express, Motivation, Unshrink the People and Complete Leadership and his books have been translated into six languages. Now based in the UK, Philip has previously worked in Latin America.