Beyond Measure by Margaret Heffernan
A powerful manifesto for CEOs and employees alike: Influential and award-winning business leader Margaret Heffernan reveals how organizations can build ideal workplace cultures and create seismic shifts by making deceptively small changes. By implementing sweeping changes, businesses often think it's possible to do better, to earn more, and have happier employees. So why does engagement prove so difficult and productivity so elusive? In Beyond Measure, Margaret Heffernan looks back over her decades spent overseeing different organizations and comes to a counterintuitive conclusion: it's the small shifts that have the greatest impact. Heffernan argues that building the strongest organization can be accelerated by implementing seemingly small changes, such as embracing conflict as a creative catalyst; using every mind on the team; celebrating mistakes; speaking up and listening more; and encouraging time off from work. Packed with incredible anecdotes and startling statistics, Beyond Measure takes us on a fascinating tour across the globe, highlighting disparate businesses and revealing how they've managed to change themselves in big ways through incremental shifts. How did the CIA revolutionize their intelligence gathering with one simple question? How did one organization increase their revenue by $15 million by instituting a short coffee break? How can a day-long hackathon change the culture of a company? Told with wry wit and knowing humor, Heffernan proves that it's often the small changes that make the greatest, most lasting impact.Margaret Heffernan is an entrepreneur, CEO, and author of Willful Blindness, a Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Best Business Book nominee. She produced award-winning programs for the BBC before returning to the United States to head multimedia technology companies. She was born in Texas, raised in Holland, and educated at Cambridge University. She consults with senior executives all over the world and contributes to Huffington Post, CBSMoneywatch, and Inc.com. Visit Margaret's website, mheffernan.com, or follow her on Twitter, @M_Heffernan.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781476784908 |
| ISBN 10 | 1476784906 |
| Title | Beyond Measure |
| Author | Margaret Heffernan |
| Series | Ted Books |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster/ Ted |
| Year published | 2015-05-05 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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