A Hot Spot is a moment when people are working together in exceptionally creative and collaborative ways. Hot spots occur when the energy within and between people flares. Ideas become contagious and new possibilities appear. Hot spots flare through the spontaneous combustion of three elements and the multiplier effect...
The Idea in Brief To execute major initiatives in your organization--integrating a newly acquired firm, overhauling an IT system--you need complex teams. Such teams' defining characteristics--large, virtual, diverse, and specialized--are crucial for handling daunting projects. Yet these very characteristics can also...
Hot Spots Lynda Gratton Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., (2007) 205 pages, Softcover, $24.95 Reviewed by: Les Carter, St. Edward's University With hot Spots, Lynda Gratton completes her trilogy of work focused on understanding why and how energy is created and dissipated in the workplace. Her analysis of the capacity...
MY WAY Lynda Gratton gives her tips on succeeding at work Lynda Gratton is one of the world's top business thinkers. She is Professor of Management Practice at London Business School and her latest book is Hot Spots (www.hotspotsmovement.com) What...
For all the grand debates in the boardroom, the strategy retreats, the visions, what CEOs strive for is the crackle of imagination in pursuit of corporate goals--hot spots. Hot spots are when our energy and excitement are inflamed by an igniting question or vision of the future....
Why do the halls of companies like Nokia, BP and Goldman Sachs buzz with energy? For all the grand debates in the boardroom, the strategy retreats, the visions, what CEOs strive for is the crackle of imagination in pursuit of corporate goals- hot spots. Hot spots are...
For all the grand debates in the boardroom, the strategy retreats, the visions, what CEOs strive for is the crackle of imagination in pursuit of corporate goals--hot spots. Hot spots are when our energy and excitement are inflamed by an igniting question or vision of the future. They are times...
EVERY ORGANIZATION SHOULD strive to create cooperative relationships, because cooperation can be a boon to the bottom line. In a study my team conducted of top-performing companies, all of them nurtured cooperation over competitiveness. Those companies that fail to develop a cooperative mind-set do so because...
Byline: Mike Hanley Jun 08, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review Boss - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Lynda Gratton, a professor of Management Practice at London Business School, focuses on innovation in her research. She writes in her book, titled "Hot Spots: Why Some...
Hot Spots: Why Some Teams, Workplaces, and Organizations Buzz with Energy--And Others Don't Author: Lynda Gratton Publisher: San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007 ISBN: 1576754189 Hot Spots is the third volume in the trilogy published by Lynda Gratton, professor of...
Hot Spots: Why Some Teams, Workplaces, and Organizations Buzz with Energy - And Others Don't Author: Lynda Gratton Publisher: San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007 ISBN: 1576754189 hot Spots is the third volume in the trilogy published by Lynda Gratton, professor of management practice at London Business School and global authority...
Byline: Stephen Philips Oct 11, 2006 (Human Resources - ABIX via COMTEX) -- There is a growing number of high profile human resources HR experts, many of whom are US academics. Author and HR guru Dave Ulrich admits he reaps "obscene" fees...
Byline: Dianne Jacobs Jun 01, 2006 (Human Resources - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The global executive officer GEO is a new type of leader. GEOs need to be attuned to changes in the global business environment and to lead their organisations through...
`THE DEMOCRATIC ENTERPRISE' By: Lynda Gratton Publisher: Prentice Hall/Pearson Education Pages: 254 Price: RM71.80 THE freedom of speech and choice - the certainty that we have a forum for our opinions and...
The Democratic Enterprise by Lynda Gratton. Financial Times Prentice Hall, November 2003, ISBN: 0273675281 272 pages [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Democratic Enterprise is concerned with grasping the organisational possibilities which...
Even more than politicians, companies always claim to be something they are not. They say they are innovative when they are stuffy and old- fashioned; they claim to be flexible when - in spite of years of delayering, downsizing, re-engineering and the rest - they are still too formally structured;...
Human resources departments face extinction unless they can both create shareholder value by achieving high levels of short-term performance and assist chief executives in planning ahead, according to a leading academic. Lynda Gratton, associate professor of organisational behaviour at London Business School, made her warning at the...
