Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Business & Finance, International Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction, Adult
ISBN: 9781847941008
Published: September 2016
Page Extent: 368
Format: Paperback
RRP 275.00

Scaling up Excellence

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Scaling up excellence is the key to creating a great organisation. It's how a small enterprise expands without losing focus. It's how a brilliant new idea or plan developed by the few goes on to be adopted by the many. And, in hard times and tough situations, it's how pockets of smart new thinking overcome cultures of indifference or negativity. An organisation that doesn't know how to scale up what is best within it won't achieve long-term success.

Bestselling author Robert Sutton and his Stanford colleague Huggy Rao have devoted nearly a decade to uncovering what it takes to create and spread outstanding performance, and in Scaling Up Excellence they share the fruits of their research. Drawing on case studies that range from Silicon Valley...

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Hayagreeva Rao

Hayagreeva Rao

Hayagreeva Rao is the Atholl McBean Professor of Organizational Behavior and the Morgan Stanley Director for the Center for Leadership Development and Research at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. Rao is a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Science, the Sociological Research Association and the Academy of Management. He was the editor of the Administrative Science Quarterly, the most prestigious peer reviewed organizational theory journal. He also has served as Consulting Editor for American Journal of Sociology, Senior Editor of Organizational Science, and Guest Editor of Academy of Management Review. He will be on the editorial board of American Sociological Review.

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Robert I. Sutton

Robert I Sutton

Robert Sutton is the bestselling author of The No Asshole Rule which has sold 800,000 copies globally, as well as Good Boss, Bad Boss and Scaling Up Excellence. He is Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford, a fellow at IDEO and has published over 150 articles through outlets such as the Harvard Business Review and the Financial Times.

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