Adding Value: A Blueprint for Learning to Manage and Lead (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series) - Tapa dura

"Gerry has helped us understand that the creative, strategic process necessary to successful business is systematic in nature. Gerry's approach to business management is not made up of off-the-shelf, take-it-or-leave-it concepts and tools--it is a living method that can be put into the perspective of each business." --from the foreword by Bernard F. Brennan, chairman and CEO, Montgomery Ward

Presenting a way of looking at a company's real business needs - including strategy, leadership, structure, human resources and organizational culture - this book sets out to provide managers with the basic skills required to move beyond their own idea of management and to add real value to the business as a whole. Gerard Egan offers theoretical constructs and three practical, integrated models designed to show managers how to design, facilitate and assess business and organizational processes; initiate and manage innovation and change; and deal effectively with an organization's politics and culture. Egan also wrote "The Skilled Helper".