Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling For Less - Hardcover

Sutton, Robert I.; Rao, Huggy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0307363422 ISBN 13: 9780307363428

Publisher: Random House Canada, 2014

Synopsis

In Scaling Up Excellence, bestselling author Robert Sutton and Stanford colleague Huggy Rao tackle a challenge that determines every organization’s success: scaling up farther, faster, and more effectively as a program or an organization creates a larger footprint. Sutton and Rao have devoted much of the last decade to uncovering what it takes to build and uncover pockets of exemplary performance, to help spread them, and to keep recharging organizations with ever better work practices. Drawing on inside accounts and case studies and academic research from a wealth of industries – including start-ups, pharmaceuticals, airlines, retail, financial services, high-tech, education, non-profits, government, and healthcare -- Sutton and Rao identify the key scaling challenges that confront every organization. They tackle the difficult trade-offs that organizations must make between “Buddhism” versus “Catholicism” -- whether to encourage individualized approaches tailored to local needs or to replicate the same practices and customs as an organization or program expands. They reveal how the best leaders and teams develop, spread, and instill the right mindsets in their people -- rather than ruining or watering down the very things that have fueled successful growth in the past. They unpack the principles that help to cascade excellence throughout an organization, as well as show how to eliminate destructive beliefs and behaviors that will hold them back.

Scaling Up Excellence is the first major business book devoted to this universal and vexing challenge. It is destined to become the standard bearer in the field.

About this title

About the Author

ROBERT I. SUTTON is an organizational pyschologist at Stanford University and the author of the bestselling The No Asshole Rule and Good Boss, Bad Boss, among other books. HUGGY RAO is the Atholl McBean Professor of Organizational Behavior and the Morgan Stanley Director of the Center of Leadership Development and Research at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. They are co-teaching a class on scaling up to Stanford MBA students.

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House Canada
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0307363422
• ISBN 13: 9780307363428
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304