Too Good To Fail? by Jan Filochowski
Business leaders the world over are hardwired to focus on success. But what if understanding failure is the real secret behind enduring performance? In Too Good To Fail?, Jan Filochowski turns his twenty years’ experience as a CEO and turnaround specialist into practical advice for business managers."This book shows that failure is not such a frightening term after all and will help both established and aspiring managers to cope when things go wrong, as they will do, and to get out of troubleDrawing on first-hand experience and using real examples from many arenas it is a compelling read, full of wisdom and sound advice."
Developing Leaders Magazine"a practical manual and guidebook acting as a distillation of hard won wisdom in the NHS at a senior level." Roger Steer, NHS Managers.net "Having managed organisations in all states from failing to world-leading, Filochowski was inspired to write about the patterns he identified which occur when things were going wrong. If left unchecked, his book argues, simple problems can multiply until they result in total failure. Too Good to Fail? covers the full spectrum of failure from minor mistakes to complete systemic collapse." Sarah Johnson, Guardian Professional, August 2013
"Relevant, accessible and informed. The author’s experience and willingness to share is clear."
Nursing Times, November 2013
Jan Filochowski is the CEO of Great Ormond Street Hospital. He has spent over 35 years in healthcare-related management, the first 10 as a policymaker in government and the next 25 running large organisations – mainly hospitals – interspersed with periods in academia and as a turnaround specialist and trouble-shooter in the National Health Service.
As a trouble-shooter, he worked with 30 to 40 organisations who were in difficulty or in deep failure. He has helped diagnose the root causes of their problems and guided them back to organisational health and achievement.
During his practitioner career, Jan has also been a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University and an NHS University Fellow at Cambridge Judge Business School.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780273785231 |
| ISBN 10 | 0273785230 |
| Title | Too Good To Fail? |
| Author | Jan Filochowski |
| Series | Financial Times Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pearson Education Limited |
| Year published | 2013-05-23 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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