"Are you an authentic leader? Too many companies are managed not by leaders but by mere role players and faceless bureaucrats. What would it take to replace these empty suits with real leaders--men and women who are confident in who they are and what they stand for and who truly inspire people to achieve extraordinary results? Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones argue that leaders don't become great by aspiring to a list of universal character t ..."
" What does it mean to be yourself at work? As a leader, how do you strike the right balance between vulnerability and authority?This book explains the role of authenticity in emotionally intelligent leadership. You'll learn how to discover your authentic self, when emotional responses are appropriate, how conforming to specific standards can hurt you, and when you need to feel like a fake.This volume includes the work of:Bill GeorgeHerm ..."
"What It Takes to Be an Authentic Leader Rob Goffee, Gareth Jones. 10. Robert
Dick and Tim Dalmau, Values in Action: Applying the Ideas of Argyris and Schön
(Chapel Hill, Queensland, Australia: Interchange, 1990). 11. Jeffrey Pfeffer and ..."
"By Herminia Ibarra Authenticity has become the gold standard for leadership. But
a simplistic understanding of what it means can hinder your growth and limit your
impact. Consider Cynthia, a general manager in a health care organization. Her
promotion into that role increased her direct reports tenfold and expanded the
range of businesses she oversaw—and she felt a little shaky about making such
a big leap. A strong believer in tra ..."
Why Should Anyone Work Here? What It Takes to Create an Authentic Organization by GarethJones, RobGoffee 256 Pages, Published 2015 by Harvard Business Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-62527-510-3, ISBN: 1-62527-510-2
"... August 24, 2009; Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Setting the Pace with Toughness,” New
York Times, January 26, 2011. 8. C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination (
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1959). 1. Kathleen M. Eisenhardt and
Donald ..."
"Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatzis, Primal Leadership (Boston: Harvard
Business School Press, 2002). 4. This notion is central to classical social theory
as it emerged in the nineteenth century. The clearest expression is in the work of
Emile Durkheim, who, in both The Division of Labor in Society (New York: Free
Press, 1984) and Steven Lukes, ed., Durkheim: The Rules of Sociological
Method and Selected Texts on Sociology and Its ..."
"Book DescriptionLeading Minds and Landmark Ideas In An Easily Accessible FormatFrom the preeminent thinkers whose work has defined an entire field to the rising stars who will redefine the way we think about business, The Harvard Business Review Paperback Series delivers the fundamental information today's professionals need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world.From managing diversity to exploring alternative workplaces to debunki ..."
Clever Leading Your Smartest, Most Creative People by Robert Goffee, Gareth Lloyd Jones Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2009 by Harvard Business Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4221-2296-9, ISBN: 1-4221-2296-4
"If your company is like most, it has a handful of people who generate disproportionate quantities of value: A researcher creates products that bankroll the entire organization for decades. A manager spots consumer-spending patterns no one else sees and defines new market categories your enterprise can serve. A strategist anticipates global changes and correctly interprets their business implications. Companies' competitiveness, even sur ..."
"What It Takes to Be an Authentic LeaderBuch mit Leinen-EinbandAre you an authentic leader? Too many companies are managed not by leaders but by mere role players and faceless bureaucrats. What would it take to replace these empty suits with real leaders--men and women who are confident in who they are and what they stand for and who truly inspire people to achieve extraordinary results? Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones argue that leaders don ..."
"What It Takes to Create an Authentic OrganizationBuch mit Leinen-EinbandImagine designing the best company on earth to work for . . . What would that company be like? How would you build and sustain it? As a leader, you need to know. In the past, businesses made people conform to the organization's needs. But the old paradigm has shifted. Now leaders must transform their organizations so that they attract the right people, keep them, an ..."
The Character of a Corporation(Updated) How Your Company's Culture Can Make or Break Your Business by Robert Goffee, GarethJones Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2003 by Profile Books Import ISBN-13: 978-1-86197-639-0, ISBN: 1-86197-639-9
"Coca-Cola, Disney, Nike and Hewlett Packard all have it: a positive corporate culture that powerfully affects their bottom line. Yet despite its ability to make or break a business, corporate culture remains the most underutilized resource in business today. Internationally renowned academics and consultants Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones draw on fifteen years of research with high-profile companies such as Unilever, Polygram, Heineken and ..."
"Corporate culture is more than just a way to set the tone at work--it also affects the bottom line. That's why it's critical to understand your company's culture. Authors Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones argue that managers need to know if their business's culture helps or hurts, and how to change it, if necessary. Goffee and Jones know their stuff. As founders of the London-based consulting firm Creative Management Associates, they've ..."
"Too many companies are managed not by leaders, but by mere role players and faceless bureaucrats. What does it take to be a real leaderone who is confident in who she is and what she stands for, and who truly inspires people to achieve extraordinary results? Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones argue that leaders dont become great by aspiring to a list of universal character traits. Rather, effective leaders are authentic: they deploy indiv ..."
"Careers are changing-a simple linear development is now rare. People need to be creative about their careers, and society needs to generate creativity from its work arrangements. Many believe that the so-called creative industries (media, high-tech, IT, etc.) offer a model for likely working patterns and career development in the future. In this book leading experts from ten countries look at the dual meaning of Career Creativity to ex ..."
"CHAPTER 12 Career, Community, and Social Architecture: An Exploration of
Concepts Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones It is commonplace to assert that high
rates of change and uncertainty within the industrial economies have buried,
perhaps once and for all, the conventional notion of the career as an orderly,
cumulative trajectory, organizationally bounded and marked by measurable shifts
in status and social recognition. While some observ ..."
Clever Leading Your Smartest, Most Creative People by RobGoffee and GarethJones by GarethJones, RobGoffee 208 Pages, Published 2009 by Harvard Business Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4221-5268-3, ISBN: 1-4221-5268-5
"Clever, we hope, provides answers to the question of how clever people should,
and must, be led to maximize their potential, their personal, organizational, and
societal value. Our focus throughout is on clever individuals who work within ..."
"The phenomenon is not new; we discovered it initially in a survey of middle-level
managers in the mid-1980s. See Richard Scase ... Peter L. Berger and Thomas
Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality (New York: Anchor Books, 1966). 7
. ... Summarized in most standard organizational behavior textbooks; see, for
example, L. J. Mullins, Management and Organizational Behavior, 7th ed. (
London: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2004). 9. ..."