Under New Management: How Leading Organizations Are Upending Business as Usual - Softcover

Burkus, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 132878164X ISBN 13: 9781328781642

Publisher: Harper Business, 2017

Synopsis

“Makes a provocative case that you should put customers second, close open offices, and ditch performance appraisals.”—Adam Grant, best-selling author of Originals

“Under New Management is a lively, provocative must-read.”—Whitney Johnson, author of Disrupt Yourself.
 
Why accepted management practices don’t work—and how innovative companies are changing the rules
 
Should your employees know each other’s salaries? Is your vacation policy harming productivity? Does your hiring process undermine your team? David Burkus argues that the traditional management playbook is full of outdated, counterproductive practices, and he reveals how the alternative management revolution has already started at companies like Netflix, Zappos, Google, and others. Burkus investigates behind their office doors to show how these companies are reevaluating and reinventing the most basic management principles, like hiring, firing, vacation policy, and even office floor plan, and enhancing their business’s success as a result.
 
“Is your company ready for a radical departure from twentieth-century management standards? David Burkus has collected the stories of dozens of companies that are standing the old rules on their heads. Even better, Burkus shows how you can do it, too.”—Daniel H. Pink, best-selling author of Drive and To Sell Is Human

“If you are going to read one book on being a better manager in the next year, start here. David Burkus has assembled the most practical research and provocative ideas into an incredibly quick read.”—Tom Rath, best-selling author of StrengthsFinder 2.0

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From the Back Cover

IS YOUR COMPANY READY TO BE PLACED . . . UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT?
 
“Is your company ready for a radical departure from twentieth-century management standards and a bold new approach? In Under New Management, David Burkus has collected the stories of dozens of companies that are making this journey. They’re standing the old rules on their heads and running their businesses with refreshing amounts of transparency and autonomy. Even better, Burkus shows how you can do it too.”— Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive and To Sell Is Human

“I can’t stop raving about Under New Management to friends and colleagues. If you are going to read one book on being a better manager in the next year, start here. David Burkus has assembled the most practical research and provocative ideas into an incredibly quick read.” —Tom Rath, best-selling author of StrengthsFinder 2.0

“In Under New Management, Burkus hauls twentieth-century management ideas to the scrap heap while revealing counterintuitive practices that will drive organizational performance in the back half of the twenty-first century. And like any good manager, he under-promises and over-delivers. Under New Management is a lively, provocative must-read.” — Whitney Johnson, Thinkers50, World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers, and author of Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work

“David Burkus challenges established management principles and reveals the counterintuitive practices that really drive organizational performance. Under New Management makes a provocative case that you should put customers second, close open offices, and ditch performance appraisals.” — Adam Grant, Wharton professor and New York Times best-selling author of Give and Take and Originals

From the Inside Flap

A provocative work that challenges the traditional and widely accepted principles of business management—and proves that many of them are outdated, outmoded, or simply don’t work anymore.
 
Should employees know each other’s salaries?

Do open floor plans really work? Or is it all just about saving money?

Are there companies that truly put their employees’ welfare first . . . and their clients second?

Are annual performance reviews really necessary?  

In Under New Management, Dr. David Burkus, a highly regarded and increasingly influential business school professor, challenges many of the established principles of everyday business practices. Drawing upon the latest research in the field, Burkus has found that not only are many of our fundamental management practices wrong and misguided, but even worse, they can be downright counterproductive.   

These days, the best companies are breaking the old and tired rules. For example, in some firms, e-mail is now restricted to only certain hours, so that employees can work without distraction. Netflix no longer has a standard vacation policy of two to three weeks, but instructs employees to take time off when they feel they need it. And at Valve Software, there are no managers; the employees govern themselves. And this is just the beginning.
The revolutionary insights Burkus reveals here will convince companies to leave behind decades-old stale management approaches and to implement new ways that will thoroughly enhance employee productivity and morale.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Business
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 132878164X
• ISBN 13: 9781328781642
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256