Adding Value: A Systematic Guide to Business-Driven Management and Leadership (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series) - Hardcover

Egan, Gerard

9781555425425: Adding Value: A Systematic Guide to Business-Driven Management and Leadership (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555425429 ISBN 13: 9781555425425

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1993

Presents a wholistic approach that presents managers with a basic survival course that shows how to add value to an entire business, not just manage one's own department.

Offers not just theoretical constructs but three practical, usable models. Model A examines the design, facilitation, and assessment of basic business and organizational processes. Model B explains how to initiate and manage innovation and change. Model C tells how to manage the shadow side of an institution: organizational politics, individual idiosyncracies, and corporate culture.

Shows how to integrate these models into a system that managers can use to identify, organize, and implement the best ideas emerging from today's business and organization potential movement.

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About the Author:

GERARD EGAN is professor of organization studies and psychology at Loyola University of Chicago. He consults to a variety of organizations worldwide including The World Bank, British Airways, and Amoco Corporation and is the author of numerous books, including the best-selling The Skilled Helper (4th edition, 1990).

Review:

"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

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