Under new management : how leading organizations are upending business as usual

Burkus, David 1983- (Author).

Summary: Drawing on decades of research, challenges many of the established principles of business management, proving that they are outdated, outmoded, or simply don't work, and urges companies to implement new ways to enhance productivity and morale.

Record details

ISBN: 9780544630970
ISBN: 0544630971
ISBN: 9780544631601
ISBN: 9780544842151
ISBN: 0544842154
Physical Description: print
243 pages ; 22 cm
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2016]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-233) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: management needs new management -- Outlaw email -- Put customers second -- Lose the standard vacation policy -- Pay people to quit -- Make salaries transparent -- Ban non-competes -- Ditch performance appraisals -- Hire as a team -- Write the org chart in pencil -- Close open offices -- Take sabbaticals -- Fire the managers -- Celebrate departures -- Afterword: reinventing the management engine.