Hot Spots by Lynda Gratton
We've all heard about companies and teams that are buzzing with ideas, innovation and sheer trendiness - think Nokia, think Google, think Starbucks. Sometimes, without warning or explanation, there are condensed periods of growth and innovation within an organisation or culture. For a short time, new ideas flow freely and growth, co-operation and success are achieved at a level that exceeds all expectations. These are Hot Spots. But why do they occur in some companies and teams and not others? How can you avoid the Big Freeze and instead encourage these centres of creativity, action and energy? Hot Spots presents this powerful new idea which holds enormous potential for increasing productivity, co-operation and innovation. Hot Spots can be found anywhere that ideas converge - workplaces, companies, industries, coffee shops, hallways, conferences. And distance is no barrier either: Hot Spots can thrive across different geographical locations and different time zones. Based on extensive research with industry leaders such as BP, Nokia, Adidas, Linux, Goldman Sachs, Ogilvy One, Unilever and Reuters, Hot Spots explores the conditions and environments that are conducive to the creation of Hot Spots. With Hot Spots you can achieve higher levels of effectiveness and productivity than you ever thought possible."..grappling with perhaps the biggest management challenge of our
times ...Gratton has written a succinct and utterly compelling book. She is
really a kind of one-woman hot spot herself." Stefan Stern, The Financial Times, February 2007
"...confirming [Gratton's] position as one of the few female management gurus globally " People Management February 2007 "Lynda Gratton is set to be catapulted to the very top of the tree as far as management gurus are concerned ... if we could just perfect the Dolly-the-sheep cloning tecnology and get a few more Grattons out there, we would really be in business." - Accounting & Business Magazine April 2007 "This stimulating book ... will bring her a keen readership among business leaders." Director April 2007
"At last help is at hand with a book that engages the reader with real case studies and then delivers with a set of tools and techniques to help you take the first step - and the next, and the next" Human Resources April 2008
Dr Lynda Gratton is Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour at London Business School. She has been named the number 1 strategic thinker in the world in an article published in the periodical Strategic Human Resource Management and has also been named as one of the premier business and management thinkers in the world. The Financial Times (December 1, 2005) has published a list compiled every two years of the top 50 business thinkers in the world, and Lynda is number 34 on the list.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780273711469 |
| ISBN 10 | 0273711466 |
| Title | Hot Spots |
| Author | Lynda Gratton |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Pearson Education Limited |
| Year published | 2007-04-18 |
| Number of pages | 232 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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