Steven W Floyd, Bill Wooldridge

The Strategic Middle Manager

How to Create and Sustain Competitive Advantage

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A must-read for training professionals, managers, and top executives, Floyd and Wooldridge's work will radically redesign - and drastically improve - your organization's effectiveness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 433g
• ISBN-13: 9780787902087
• ISBN-10: 078790208X
• Artikelnr.: 21502071

Autorenporträt

STEVEN W. FLOYD is associate professor of strategic management at the University of Connecticut. BILL WOOLDRIDGE is associate professor of strategic management at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: The New Middle Management Imperative.

1. Leadership from the Middle: The Changing Demands of MiddleManagement Work.

2. Competing on Capabilities: The Middle Manager's Role inLeveraging Knowledge and Skills.

3. Realigning Resources and Talent: The Challenge ofOrganizational Restructuring.

Part Two: The New Strategic Roles for Middle Managers.

4. Strategy from the Middle Out.

5. Championing: The Discovery and Proposal of InnovativeInitiatives.

6. Synthesizing: Advancing Shared Strategic Understanding.

7. Facilitating: Nurturing Adaptability and Setting the Stagefor Renewal.

8. Implementing: Inducing the Vision and Making It Real.

Part Three: Unleashing the Power in the Middle.

9. The Challenge of Executive Leadership.

10. Becoming a Strategic Middle Manager.

Resources: The Strategic Consensus Questionnaire; A Self-Test ofMiddle Management Strategic Involvement.

Rezensionen

"The best thing that could happen to a middle manager is to havehis or her boss read this book." --Francis Guiliano, retired CEO,Ampad Corporation

"An exceptional job of refocusing the middle manager's role?a mustread for practitioners and educators alike." --Jack Viega, editor,The Academy of Management Executives