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Clive Gilson and Mike Pratt's long-term research into organization theory has revealed widespread cynicism and disenchantment in the workplace. Creative people have maximum mobility in the ideas economy. Organizations are dependent on them, not vice versa. To attract and retain the best is imperative, but to do so the organization must provide a setting which offers meaning, purpose and direction. Organizing for peak performance in such an environment requires a completely different mindset from the command and control hierarchy of the industrial era. "Breakthrough" aims to transform the theory and practice of leadership and organizational transformation in knowledge-based companies. Focusing on the advertising industry as archetypal of the information age, the authors carried out extensive initial research at Saatchi and Saatchi. They also carrried out related research at Procter and Gamble, Hewlett Packard and Visa International, among others, in order to develop a "Breakthrough" theory of inspirational leadership and organizational transformation for knowledge-based organizations.
Clive Gilson and Mike Pratt's long-term research into organization theory has revealed widespread cynicism and disenchantment in the workplace. Creative people have maximum mobility in the ideas economy. Organizations are dependent on them, not vice versa. To attract and retain the best is imperative, but to do so the organization must provide a setting which offers meaning, purpose and direction. Organizing for peak performance in such an environment requires a completely different mindset from the command and control hierarchy of the industrial era. "Breakthrough" aims to transform the theory and practice of leadership and organizational transformation in knowledge-based companies. Focusing on the advertising industry as archetypal of the information age, the authors carried out extensive initial research at Saatchi and Saatchi. They also carrried out related research at Procter and Gamble, Hewlett Packard and Visa International, among others, in order to develop a "Breakthrough" theory of inspirational leadership and organizational transformation for knowledge-based organizations.
Clive Gilson and Mike Pratt's long-term research into organization theory has revealed widespread cynicism and disenchantment in the workplace. Creative people have maximum mobility in the ideas economy. Organizations are dependent on them, not vice versa. To attract and retain the best is imperative, but to do so the organization must provide a setting which offers meaning, purpose and direction. Organizing for peak performance in such an environment requires a completely different mindset from the command and control hierarchy of the industrial era. "Breakthrough" aims to transform the theory and practice of leadership and organizational transformation in knowledge-based companies. Focusing on the advertising industry as archetypal of the information age, the authors carried out extensive initial research at Saatchi and Saatchi. They also carrried out related research at Procter and Gamble, Hewlett Packard and Visa International, among others, in order to develop a "Breakthrough" theory of inspirational leadership and organizational transformation for knowledge-based organizations.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 153 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-00-257218-7 (9780002572187)
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Professor Clive Gilson holds a chair in human resource management at the Waikato Management School and is Editor of the Electronic Journal of Radical Organization Theory. Professor Michael Pratt is dean of the Waikato Management School and a specialist in management accounting, auditing and leadership.
Professor Clive Gilson holds a chair in human resource management at the Waikato Management School and is Editor of the Electronic Journal of Radical Organization Theory. Professor Michael Pratt is dean of the Waikato Management School and a specialist in management accounting, auditing and leadership.
Professor Clive Gilson holds a chair in human resource management at the Waikato Management School and is Editor of the Electronic Journal of Radical Organization Theory. Professor Michael Pratt is dean of the Waikato Management School and a specialist in management accounting, auditing and leadership.