Scaling Up Excellence

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Scaling up excellence is the key to creating a great organisation It's how a small enterprise expands without losing focus It's how a brilliant new idea or plan developed by the few goes on to be adopted by the many & in hard times & tough situations it's how pockets of smart new thinking overcome cultures of indifference or negativity An organisation that doesn't know how to scale up what is best within it won't achieve long-term success Bestselling author Robert Sutton & his Stanford colleague Huggy Rao have devoted nearly a decade to uncovering what it takes to create & spread outstanding performance & in Scaling Up Excellence they share the fruits of their research Drawing on case studies that range from Silicon Valley enterprises to non-profit organisations they provide crucial insights into corporate cultures both good & bad & offer a road map for establishing & stimulating excellence In the process they show how to use premortems' when making big decisions about change They reveal why seven is so often the magic number when it comes to team size They examine successful & unsuccessful quests for improvement
- in hospitals schools & elsewhere & they discuss when a single corporate mindset is best (Catholicism') & when local variation is preferable (Buddhism') Scaling Up Excellence is the first management book devoted to what is
- or should be
- a core priority for every organisation As such it is destined to become the standard bearer