Under New Management: How Leading Organisations Are Upending Business as Usual

Nearly 70 per cent of employees in the UK aren't performing at their full potential. At the roots of this problem are the policies and systems built to 'manage' these employees, which were designed for a different era - the industrial economy. In the tradition of Jim Collins' bestselling Good to Great, in Under New Management David Burkus, psychologist, professor of management at the College of Business at Oral Roberts University and author of The Myth of Creativity, shines a light on the companies that are experimenting with new and different models and policies for leading teams and managing people. From Amazon to Virgin, Volkswagen to Whole Foods, these companies have developed a new set of best practices that may look counter-intuitive, but have become an integral part of what makes them so high-performing, and that have established employee engagement and customer loyalty. The purpose of this book and its research is to challenge you and your company on whether the time has come to re-examine some of the most fundamental concepts in management today. The business of business is all about change and keeping up with the latest trends. Here's your chance to see for yourself what kinds of management changes you should be thinking of.

Table of Contents:
Introduction - i: Management Needs New Management Chapter - 1: Outlaw Email Chapter - 2: Put Customers Second Chapter - 3: Lose The Standard Vacation Policy Chapter - 4: Pay People To Quit Chapter - 5: Make Salaries Transparent Chapter - 6: Ban Noncompetes Chapter - 7: Ditch Performance Appraisals Chapter - 8: Hire A Team Chapter - 9: Write The Org Chart In Pencil Chapter - 10: Close Open Offices Chapter - 11: Take Sabbaticals Chapter - 12: Fire The Managers Chapter - 13: Celebrate Departures Section - ii: Afterword: Reinventing the Management Engine Section - iii: Next Steps Acknowledgements - iv: Acknowledgements Section - v: Notes Index - vi: Index Section - vii: About The Author

About the Author :
David Burkus is the author of The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas. David is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and Forbes. His work has been featured in Fast Company, Inc., the Financial Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, and on CBS This Morning.

Review :
Is your company ready for a radical departure from 20th-century management standards and a bold move into a new approach? In Under New Management, David Burkus has collected the stories of dozens of companies that are making this journey. They're standing the old rules on their heads and running their businesses with refreshing amounts of transparency and autonomy. Even better, Burkus shows how you can do it, too. I can't stop raving about Under New Management to friends and colleagues. If you are going to read one book on being a better manager in the next year, start here. David Burkus has assembled the most practical research and provocative ideas into an incredibly quick read. In Under New Management, Burkus hauls 20th-century management ideas to the scrap heap while revealing counterintuitive practices that will drive organizational performance in the back half of the 21st century. And like any good manager, he under-promises, and over-delivers. Under New Management is a lively, provocative, must read. David Burkus challenges established management principles and reveals the counterintuitive practices that really drive organizational performance. Under New Management makes a provocative case that you should put customers second, close open offices, and ditch performance appraisals. Under New Management dares us to rethink some of our most closely held assumptions about management - should we fire managers? Pay people to quit? Celebrate departures? Burkus masterfully questions so-called "best practices" and illustrates how today's leading companies are unleashing human talent. If you want to stay ahead in the new game of work, read this book! On Seinfeld, perpetual screw-up George Constanza eventually realized that since every impulse he had turned out to be wrong, if he simply did the opposite he would succeed. In David Burkus' brilliant follow-up to the Myths of Creativity, he proves (with data!) just how well that same bit of logic applies to modern management. Get rid of your email, open offices, and performance reviews. Let people take vacation whenever they want, and pay them to quit. If what you're doing isn't working, Burkus will show you what does.