Job Crafting: Management on the Cutting Edge
MIT Press, 2024
Job Crafting: Management on the Cutting Edge
MIT Press, 2024
Job Crafting is a practical and timely guide that empowers employees to shape their roles and helps leaders build organizations that support this transformation. Rooted in rigorous research it presents a modern approach to job redesign, where workers proactively align their tasks with their skills and aspirations while executives foster environments that encourage growth. Drawing on data from thousands of global business leaders and employees, the book introduces a clear, four-step framework for maximizing engagement and productivity by enabling employees to exercise control over tasks, redefine their work’s meaning, and shape their social context. As traditional leadership models give way to principles of stewardship, authenticity, and empowerment, Job Crafting offers a compelling solution to workforce challenges, making it essential reading for managers, executives, and anyone seeking greater autonomy and fulfillment at work.
“The art of job crafting is not new—yet it is more important than ever in the era of AI and hybrid working. This fascinating book revisits one of the most important human levers in organization and explores its crucial ramifications.”
“Global research at McKinsey Health Institute has shown there is a strong business case for organizations to integrate true care for employee health and well-being into their organizational operating models. Leveraging job crafting is an important way of making that integration happen in a sustainable way. In this book, the authors describe the what and why of job crafting as an intervention that matters. An interesting and recommended read!”
“Job Crafting offers a groundbreaking perspective that would be crucial especially in this era of artificial intelligence and associated transformations. I strongly recommend this landmark book and convey heartfelt gratitude to the authors for sharing this invaluable knowledge with the world.”
“Job crafting is a powerful new approach to engaging your employees, and this book lays out the key ideas behind it, and how to implement it in your firm. An essential read for today’s leaders.”
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Closing the Service Gap
How to connect customers, employees and organisations
Financial Times, 2023
Closing the Service Gap
How to connect customers, employees and organisations
Financial Times, 2023
Closing the Service Gap explores how businesses can thrive in an era of rising customer expectations by forging stronger connections between customers, employees, and the organization. Drawing inspiration from the world’s most successful companies, this book introduces the RenDanHeyi model—a transformative approach that aligns employee actions with customer needs through technology-driven strategies. With practical steps, case studies, and actionable insights, it provides a roadmap for building a connected organization that delivers sustainable value, enhances workforce planning, and drives scalable growth. By shifting leadership from delegation to empowerment, Closing the Service Gap equips businesses with the tools to create a culture of continuous innovation and success.
“The challenge of leading an organisation while creating sustainable businesses that create economic prosperity and achieve societal good is one that few businesses can conquer. Closing The Service Gap pushes readers to reconsider traditional management models and power structures in the name of the engagement model of tomorrow, which will be key as businesses navigate a hybrid, post-pandemic world. A must read for anyone taking on these challenges with customers and employees.”
“Post Covid where the world as a whole and even more the business world is learning how to re-adapt post pandemic and the importance of understanding the whole value chain of customers-employees-organizations and how they are interconnected. The interdependencies, the role of culture and technology in this work-related transformation. Organizations, managers and employees who will fail to understand the roles of engagement and the importance of interconnections will fail to emerge on the other side of these world challenges. This book is a good starting point to understand this important lesson and build a new engagement blueprint around it.”
“Closing The Service Gap provides a worthy reflection on the advancement of economic prosperity ― promoting a fundamental reconsideration regarding how businesses interact with consumers. The subsequent lessons for law and policymakers, as articulated by the authors, are sizeable.”
“In a world where customer obsession is an often used phrase in business, this book challenges traditional corporate principles and provides alternative, applicable suggestions on how leaders should re-think their organisation, employee and customer ecosystem. Through real life case studies, the authors’ insights into organisation’s application of technology are particularly relevant in succeeding in the hybrid working world we now live in.”
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Too Proud to Lead: How Hubris Can Destroy Effective Leadership and What to Do About It
Bloomsbury, 2021
Too Proud to Lead: How Hubris Can Destroy Effective Leadership and What to Do About It
Bloomsbury, 2021
Too Proud to Lead is a fascinating investigation into how leaders’ confidence can spiral into hubris, with devastating consequences for both individuals and entire organizations. While confidence is essential for success, it can easily tip into arrogant overconfidence, leading to catastrophic failures—much like Icarus flying too close to the sun. The book explores the economic and psychological costs of hubris, exposes its dangers through compelling case studies, and offers a revolutionary approach to leadership. Equipping readers with the tools to identify, anticipate, and combat hubris in themselves and their workplaces, Too Proud to Lead is a powerful antidote to the leadership crisis of today.
“Through incredibly engaging stories and compelling evidence, Too Proud to Lead clarifies the risks, costs, and enablers of hubris, which is paramount if leaders are to demonstrate more significant levels of collaboration, inventiveness, and trust in their careers.”
“A worthy reflection, particularly in light of the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic that has tested leaders globally.”
“As businesses face unprecedented uncertainty, leaders must work hard to build greater collaboration, inventiveness, and trust. Too Proud to Lead explains why, and in doing so, teaches leaders how to demonstrate empathy, vulnerability, and authenticity.”
“Punctuated with research on why hubris happens at the top of organisations and practical solutions to help those with the power to do so to try to stop it happening.”
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Elgar Encyclopedia of Leadership
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025
Elgar Encyclopedia of Leadership
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025
The Elgar Encyclopedia of Leadership is a definitive resource that explores the complexities of leadership across cultures, industries, and disciplines. Featuring 138 entries—from Adaptive Leadership to Zero-Tolerance Leadership—it offers in-depth insights into both classic and contemporary leadership theories, models, and ethical considerations. With contributions from 50 leading scholars and practitioners, the encyclopedia provides a global, interdisciplinary perspective, drawing from psychology, management, sociology, and ethics. Designed for scholars, students, and professionals alike, it bridges theory and practice, equipping readers with the knowledge to navigate leadership challenges and excel in an evolving world.
“Throughout history the call has been for leaders to take the helm, but what we truly need is a broader understanding of leadership. The Elgar Encyclopedia of Leadership provides us with 138 concise entries on leadership from classical to contemporary perspectives in management, psychology, sociology, and ethics by 50 engaged scholars. Such an impressive collection of the “the good, the bad, and the ugly” of leadership inspires further reading. The Encyclopedia is a highly recommended resource for scholars, students, and practitioners.”
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Advanced Strategic Management: A Dynamic Approach to Competition
Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
Advanced Strategic Management: A Dynamic Approach to Competition
Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
Advanced Strategic Management offers a groundbreaking evolutionary perspective on competitive dynamics, integrating industry life cycles, environmental trends, and the transformative impact of the digital revolution. Going beyond traditional strategy frameworks, it explores the role of regulations, taxes, and adaptive leadership in shaping firm performance. With advanced models for strategic evaluation, formulation, and implementation, this comprehensive resource equips future business leaders with a deep understanding of competition and organizational strategy. Rich with international case studies, statistical data, and practical insights, Advanced Strategic Management bridges theory and application, making it an essential guide for students, educators, and practitioners navigating today’s complex business landscape.
“Advanced Strategic Management: A Dynamic Approach to Competition does the seemingly impossible. It manages to be deeply rooted in theory, strongly informed by empirical evidence, and eminently practical — all at once. It makes the art of strategic management realistic by presenting issues from the vantage point of a strategic leader, without trivializing the firm as a “black box” in which critical decisions and people issues are assumed away or just happen magically. And if that weren’t enough, this book provides a truly global perspective in which national context and macroeconomic fluctuations really matter. That the authors managed to string all those essential threads together is remarkable. I expect this to become one of the definitive textbooks on business strategy.”
“Advanced Strategic Management: A Dynamic Approach to Competition provides fresh view of strategizing that is very welcome both for its practical insights as well as for its intellectual ambition and originality. The authors pooled their multi-disciplinary intellectual background and their consulting and entrepreneurial experience to provide a very compelling and clear account of how the competitive efforts of the firm benefit from a blend of dynamic strategic analysis and diagnosis, sound and varied leadership skills and a well-crafted organizational architecture. This book will help managers and entrepreneurs to think more comprehensively about competition and, thus, act more effectively as strategic leaders of their firms. It will also help graduate students to start the thrilling journey to the world of business strategy on very sound footing.”
“Strategic management and leadership are often treated as distinct activities, requiring different skill sets grounded in divergent disciplines. Advanced Strategic Management upends this perception, offering a rich and deeply persuasive examination of how strategy and leadership are interwoven and interdependent. With insights that are both conceptually novel and practically actionable, this exceptional book is a must-read for all students of strategy, leadership, and management.”
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