Open-Book Management: The Coming Business Revolution

Case, John F

ISBN 10: 0887307086 / ISBN 13: 9780887307089

Edité par HarperCollins Publishers, 1995

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Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 199 p. Audience: General/trade. SIGNED BY AUTHOR! Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. HC 342 Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. N° de réf. du vendeur Alibris.0045154

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Titre : Open-Book Management: The Coming Business ...

Éditeur : HarperCollins Publishers

Date d'édition : 1995

Reliure : Hard cover

Etat de la jaquette : Jaquette

Signé : Signé par l'auteur

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Book by Case John

Présentation de l'éditeur:

"Read even the first chapter of this extraordinary book and you'll find yourself cheering, screaming, jumping up and down with excitement. The companies described in this book are decades ahead of the reengineers -- and you don't need to be a Bill Gates or a Jack Welch to put their ideas into practice today." -- George Gendron, editor in chief, Inc.

"Companies that practice open-book management seem to have captured some sort of lightning in a bottle." -- Chris Lee, Training

"This book should be required reading in corporate America." -- Chicago Tribune

"If you want to give your preconceived notions a good kick in the you-know-where, give Case the opportunity to articulate the merits of open-book management." -- Entrepreneur

Open-book management is not so much a technique as a way of thinking, a process that actively involves employees in the financial life of the company. Numerous companies have already found that employees who are informed and aware of the company's financial situation are motivated to seek solutions to problems and assume a greater degree of responsibility for its performance. John Case begins by examining the current competitive climate and the history of established management techniques. He shows how the traditional treatment of workers as "hired hands" with little involvement or responsibility beyond their own area is no longer effective in today's ever more competitive global environment.

Case clearly and carefully explains the principles of open-book management: timely sharing of crucial financial information with employees; educating the employees to understand and apply the information; empowering employees to apply the information to their own work; and offering employees a stake in the successful implementation of their ideas. Open-book management will take different forms at every company, Case notes, but he offers a wide range of suggestions and guidelines for implementing these principles. He concludes with a series of in-depth case studies, featuring companies of various sizes and financial situations that have successfully implemented open-book management. Open-Book Management is the indispensable guide to teaching employees how to think and act like owners.