- Published: 6 February 2014
- ISBN: 9781448149827
- Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 368
Scaling up Excellence
- Published: 6 February 2014
- ISBN: 9781448149827
- Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 368
This insightful book shares the methods and strategies that successful leaders rely on to spread the beliefs and behaviors that can accelerate an organization's growth while simultaneously improving its processes.
Reid Hoffman, co-founder/Chairman of LinkedIn and co-author of the bestselling The Start-up of You
Innovation at scale and speed is our goal. Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao show us how to do it more often and better, knowing that scale matters.
Beth Comstock, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Office, General Electric
Maintaining excellence while growing is full of pitfalls and pain … Scaling Up Excellence gives us a well-crafted framework for thinking about and addressing the nitty-gritty problems on the ground without getting derailed by lofty goals.
Ed Catmull, President of Pixar Animation and Disney Animation Studios
An important book for corporations and entrepreneurs alike.
Eric Ries, author of the bestselling The Lean Startup
A great read that provides real, practical advice whether you're a team of 5 or 50,000. Sutton and Rao find just the right stories to show how almost any team can get bigger and better.
Laszlo Bock, Senior Vice President of People Operations, Google
They do not shy away from the messiness and difficulties of the task of expanding an organisation. Stanford professors Huggy Rao and Robert Sutton point out that too many growth plans are launched with fanfare by grandstanding chief executives who then turn out not to have the "grit required for a prolonged ground war".
Financial Times
The pair’s eagerness drips from every page and it would be a hard-hearted reader who left Scaling Up Excellence anything less than thoroughly energised about the potential for positive change... Very good indeed.
Robert Jeffery, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
Practical and spiced with entertaining case studies. They do not shy away, either, from pointing out that it may sometimes make sense to stay small.
Financial Times
Explains how a brilliant idea or plan developed by a few people can be effectively adopted by the whole workforce.
Director