Never Mind the Bosses : Hastening the Death of Deference for Business Success.
Title:
Never Mind the Bosses : Hastening the Death of Deference for Business Success.
Author:
Ryde, Robin.
ISBN:
9781118474471
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (163 pages)
Contents:
Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: A New Dynamic for Modern Management -- Terms of deference -- A quick summary for busy people -- Starting the change process -- The SPEED model -- Symbols -- Psychological contract -- Executive powers -- Engagement -- Discourse -- A call to everyone and, in particular, a call to management -- Chapter 2: Make My Day, Punk! -- Swearing, blasphemy and other obscenities -- Stencils, spray cans and cut-outs -- Nietzsche would have been proud -- The DIY (do it yourself) ethic -- And the battle lines are drawn -- How did the establishment express its anger? -- The punk movement in the cold light of day -- And what of punk today? -- Chapter 3: The Deference Contract -- A brief examination of the deference dynamic -- It takes two to tango -- A comfortable dissonance between public and private spheres -- Taking the lid off the deference relationship -- And even though the deference contract lies on the floor with muddy boot prints on it . . . -- An unwillingness to cede power and privilege -- An unwillingness to take responsibility -- Efficiency in decision-making -- The allure of order -- An asymmetry of knowledge -- Time for a closer look -- Chapter 4: The Drag Effect -- The octopus: A metaphor for the modern operating environment -- Six ways in which deference is a drag on organisational success -- 1. The removal of responsibility -- 2. Putting the brakes on innovation -- 3. Consent and evade -- 4. Deference and the ethical deficit -- 5. An organisation divided -- 6. An astonishing waste of talent and resources -- Chapter 5: F**k You, I Won't Do What You Tell Me -- The fight for individualism -- Collective uprisings -- David and Goliath battles -- Enablers, catalysts and the means for change -- Right to information laws and the transparency agenda.
Social media, technology and the Internet -- Demographics, Generation Y and beyond -- Chapter 6: Creating a New Dynamic -- 1. Symbols -- 2. Psychological contract -- Understand what you are asking for -- Say what you mean, and mean what you say -- Show that you value what you are asking for -- 3. Executive powers -- 4. Engagement -- 5. Discourse -- How we talk and think together -- Direct, level, adult-adult conversation -- Like turkeys voting for Christmas? -- Index.
Abstract:
Over the last few decades, power, information and resources have moved from being concentrated in the hands of a few, to being disbursed across many. We need look no further than events on the world stage to see the heat signature of this - from the arrival of Wikileaks, the Arab Spring of 2011 and the Occupy movements, to the social media revolution and flashpoints such as the British Members of Parliament expenses scandal. All are examples of deep change occurring. This book is about what this means for the workplace and for management. The proposition offered here is that our organisations need to catch up, and that the "death of deference" that we are seeing elsewhere in society needs to be accelerated in the workplace. Systems of deference slow down organisational performance. Deference prevents organisations from learning. It stops them from being agile, innovative and ethical. Deference is the enemy of organisational success and it needs to be dismantled so that in its place we can build modern organisations with a new breed of managers and leaders. This book offers a solution to a problem that belongs in the last century, and a game plan for nothing short of a workplace revolution. "If deference is dead, this book is about the resurrection of the effective manager in a world where nothing is quite the way it used to be. Powerful and thought-provoking from start to finish." - Jeremy Vine, BBC Presenter and Author "Never Mind the Bosses is a refreshing type of management book, it advocates that deference to authority figures needs to go if we are to have engaged workforces." - Cary L. Cooper, CBE, Distinguished Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at Lancaster University Management School "An engaging and entertaining romp through the post punk world. By going beyond the boundaries of most business
books, Ryde gives us all food for thought about how organisations are, or are not, dealing with a rapidly changing society and workforce." - Jo Owen, bestselling author of 'How to Manage' and 'How to Lead' "If you are looking for a book that will shake up your thinking about how to improve your organization's performance - or worried that your competitors will find it first! - try this one." - Professor Dutch Leonard, Harvard Business School & Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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