Новинки Сидни Финкельштейна

A fascinating exploration of the world’s most effective bosses—and how they motivate, inspire, and enable others to advance their companies and shape entire industries, by the author of How Smart Executives Fail . A must-read for anyone interested in leadership and building an enduring pipeline of talent.

What do football coach Bill Walsh, restauranteur Alice Waters, television executive Lorne Michaels, technol­ogy CEO Larry Ellison, and fashion pioneer Ralph Lauren have in common? On the surface, not much, other than consistent success in their fields. But below the surface, they share a common approach to finding, nurturing, leading, and even letting go of great people. The way they deal with talent makes them not merely success stories, not merely organization builders, but what Sydney Finkelstein calls superbosses .

After ten years of research and more than two hundred interviews, Finkelstein—an acclaimed professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, speaker, and executive coach and consultant—discovered that superbosses exist in nearly every industry. If you study the top fifty leaders in any field, as many as one-third will have once worked for a superboss.

While superbosses differ in their personal styles, they all focus on identifying promising newcomers, inspiring their best work, and launching them into highly successful careers—while also expanding their own networks and building stronger companies. Among the practices that distinguish

They Create Master-Apprentice Relationships.
Superbosses customize their coaching to what each protégé really needs, and also are constant founts of practical wisdom. Advertising legend Jay Chiat not only worked closely with each of his employees but would sometimes extend their discussions into the night.

They Rely on the Cohort Effect.
Superbosses strongly encourage collegiality even as they simultaneously drive internal competition. At Lorne Michaels’s Saturday Night Live, writers and performers are judged by how much of their material actually gets on the air, but they can’t get anything on the air without the support of their coworkers.

They Say Good-Bye on Good Terms .
Nobody likes it when great employees quit, but super­bosses don’t respond with anger or resentment. They know that former direct reports can become highly valuable members of their network, especially as they rise to major new roles elsewhere. Julian Robertson, the billionaire hedge fund manager, continued to work with and invest in his former employees who started their own funds.

By sharing the fascinating stories of superbosses and their protégés, Finkelstein explores a phenomenon that never had a name before. And he shows how each of us can emulate the best tactics of superbosses to create our own powerful networks of extraordinary talent.

Superbosses explained how industry legends like football coach Bill Walsh, television executive Lorne Michaels, restaurateur Alice Waters, and fashion pioneer Ralph Lauren find, nurture, and lead employees. Now, The Superbosses Playbook shows readers how to apply the tactics of these "superbosses" in their own organizations.The Superbosses Playbook features assessments, case studies, and exercises designed to help anyone recruit talent, lead performance, inspire teams, and even part with great people like a true superboss. For instance, Finkelstein includes assessments of your superboss score and templates for interviewing and evaluating new hires.This workbook will help you learn and apply the secrets of iconic business leaders.

Перед вами секрет успеха лучших CEO со всего мира, которые сделали свои команды и компании первыми на рынке. Эта книга о мотивации, творческом и лидерском потенциале, прочитав которую вы узнаете, как, будучи профессионалом, стать блестящим руководителем, способствовать беспрецедентной креативности и максимально эффективно реализовать поставленные задачи.

Why do smart and experienced leaders make flawed, even catastrophic, decisions? Why do people keep believing they have made the right choice, even with the disastrous result staring them in the face? And how can you be sure you're making the right decision–without the benefit of hindsight?Sydney Finkelstein, Jo Whitehead, and Andrew Campbell show how the usually beneficial processes of the human mind can become traps when we face big decisions. The authors show how the shortcuts our brains have learned to take over millennia of evolution can derail our decision making. Think Again offers a powerful model for making better decisions, describing the key red flags to watch for and detailing the decision-making safeguards we need.Using examples from business, politics, and history, Think Again deconstructs bad decisions, as they unfolded in real time, to show how you can avoid the same fate.

Основанная на пятилетних исследованиях и испытанная на практике "Стратегия прорыва" дает стратегическое видение, способное привести вашу компанию к невероятному росту и значительному расширению доли рынка. Именно тщательно продуманная, но при этом простая по своей сути и, главное, реализованная стратегия является основным подспорьем руководителя и предпринимателя в развитии его бизнеса. Авторы предлагают пять ключевых инструментов, которые заставят вашу стратегию работать.
Книга демонстрирует, как различные компании достигали прорывных результатов, в том числе на примерах JetBlue, Google, Harley-Davidson, Starbucks, Samsung, IKEA, Toyota. Здесь также раскрываются причины, по которым некогда сильные компании потерпели поражение на поле конкурентной борьбы.

Книга знакомит с результатами исследовательского проекта, посвященного изучению управленческих ошибок. Цель этого исследования заключалась в том, чтобы разобраться в истинных причинах неудач и понять, что за люди стояли у истоков самых известных бизнес-катастроф. Проведенные изыскания позволили автору книги сделать удивительный вывод: компании, не имеющие, на первый взгляд, ничего общего, терпят поражение по одним и тем же причинам.

В представленном читателю исследовании собраны уникальные сведения об ошибках, которые способны привести на грань катастрофы даже самую мощную организацию, такую, например, как GM, Mattel, Motorola, Rite Aid, Quaker, Saatchi and Saatchi или Webvan.

Вы познакомитесь с увлекательными историями, героями которых являются не только известнейшие компании, но и их первые лица. В этой книге многие менеджеры и руководители крупнейших корпораций впервые открыто говорят о том, как в действительности принимались решения, предопределившие судьбу их компаний, и о том, что они сделали бы по-другому, если бы время можно было повернуть вспять.

Книга рассчитана на менеджеров, предпринимателей, а также студентов и преподавателей экономических вузов.

Книга знакомит с результатами исследовательского проекта, посвященного изучению управленческих ошибок. Цель этого исследования заключалась в том, чтобы разобраться в истинных причинах неудач и понять, что за люди стояли у истоков самых известных бизнес-катастроф.

Bob Pittman and AOL Time Warner. Jean Marie Messier and Vivendi. Jill Barad and Mattel. Dennis Kozlowski and Tyco. It's an all too common scenario. A great company breaks from the pack; the analysts are in love; the smiling CEO appears on the cover of Fortune.

Two years later, the company is in flames, the pension plan is bleeding, the stock is worthless. What goes wrong in these cases? Usually it seems that top management made some incredibly stupid mistakes. But the people responsible are almost always remarkably intelligent and usually have terrific track records. Just as puzzling as the fact that brilliant managers can make bad mistakes is the way they so often magnify the damage. Once a company has made a serious mis-step, it often seems as though it can't do anything right. How does this happen? Instead of rectifying their mistakes, why do business leaders regularly make them worse?

To answer these questions, Sydney Finkelstein has carried out the largest research project ever devoted to corporate mistakes and failures. In WHY SMART EXECUTIVES FAIL, he and his research team uncover-with startling clarity and unassailable documentation-the causes regularly responsible for major business breakdowns. He relates the stories of great business disasters and demonstrates that there are specific, identifiable ways in which many businesses regularly make themselves vulnerable to failure. The result is a truly indispensable, practical, must-read book that explains the mechanics of business failure, how to avoid them, and what to do if they happen.

Identifies companies that made critical business mistakes that resulted in their downfalls soon after receiving recognition as successful empires, inviting corporate leaders to learn from the examples of others in order to avoid common vulnerabilities.

Creating, adapting to, and exploiting change is inherently entrepreneurial. To survive and prosper under conditions of change, firms must develop the “dynamic capabilities” to create, extend, and modify the ways in which they operate. The capacity of an organization to create, extend, or modify its resource base is vital. Since the concept of dynamic capabilities was first introduced, much research has elaborated the initial idea. This important book by Constance Helfat and her team of leading scholars provides a timely focus on in-depth examples of corporate dynamic capabilities. Examining these in the different contexts of alliances, acquisitions, and management, the book gives students and researchers a succinct, up-to-date definition of dynamic capabilities and the strategic management theories around them.