A Bias for Action

How Effective Managers Harness Their Willpower to Achieve Results

Heike Bruch, Sumantra Ghoshal

212 pages, parution le 14/05/2004

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Résumé

What makes real leaders truly effective?

The answer is deceptively simple: willpower. If you think you have it, then think again, because you're probably among the 90 percent of managers who don't. After all, when was the last time you actually created real value for your company? Can you even remember? Have you had chances to make a difference but found yourself floundering, or did you give up as soon as you hit a wall? Do you find yourself attending regular run-of-the-mill meetings or doing routine paperwork all the time?

Let's face it: Only 10 percent of managers take decisive steps to achieve important goals. The rest of us are distracted all the time, paralyzed by insecurity, or emotionally detached. We simply cannot harness our own willpower, and so we fail to follow through as we should. Why? This book addresses that question and more: What differentiates the 10 percent of managers who take purposeful action from the 90 percent who don't? How can you leap from the unproductive majority into the highly productive minority?

How can you improve your personal capacity for taking action? How can you use your time and energy to do what counts? How can you replace your counterproductive tendencies with task-oriented behaviors?

As a leader, what can you do to help your employees take purposeful action? What kind of organization must you build? How can you embed a bias for action into your business unit's or your whole company's values and culture?

Through a range of real-life stories and in-depth assessments, this book will help you to identify what works against you every day and what you can do to overcome it. Nothing-especially not you-should come between you and your goals. A Bias for Action will help you find your willpower and develop a way to use it.

L'auteur - Sumantra Ghoshal

Sumantra Choshal held the Chair of Strategic Leadership at the London Business School until his untimely death in 2004. He received doctoral degrees in International Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management and in Business Policy at Harvard Business School. He was a recognized leader in the study of strategic and organizational challenges facing large, complex organizations. He was the author of 12 books and many articles which appeared in a wide range of scholarly journals. The Financial Times described him as, "arguably the most influential academic working in the field of international business."

Sommaire

Harnessing your willpower to achieve results
Management is the art of doing and getting done
Distinguishing purposeful action from active nonaction
Marshaling energy and developing focus
Moving beyond motivation to willpower
Crossing the rubicon
Overcoming the three traps of nonaction
Cultivating a company of action-takers
Developing purposeful managers: the organization's responsibility
Unleashing organizational energy for collective action
Freeing your people to act: a mandate for leaders
Appendix: how we studied willpower

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Éditeur(s)	Harvard Business School Press (HBS)
Auteur(s)	Heike Bruch, Sumantra Ghoshal
Parution	14/05/2004
Nb. de pages	212
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	495g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781591394082
ISBN13	978-1-59139-408-2