Scaling up excellence : getting to more without settling for less

✍ Scribed by Sutton, Robert I.; Rao, Hayagreeva

• Publisher: Crown Business
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 346
• Edition: First edition.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"In Scaling Up Excellence, bestselling author Bob Sutton and Stanford colleague Huggy Rao tackle the topic that obsesses businesses large and small, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies--how to scale up their businesses and spread excellence throughout the organizational culture"--

✦ Table of Contents

Preface: The problem of more --
Setting the stage: It's a ground war, not just an air war : going slower to scale faster (and better) later
Buddhism versus Catholicism : choosing a path --
Scaling principles: Hot causes, cool solutions : stoking the scaling engine
Cut cognitive load : but deal with necessary complexity
The people who propel scaling : build organizations where "I own the place and the place owns me"
Connect people and cascade excellence : using social bonds to spread the right mindset
Bad is stronger than good : clearing the way for excellence --
Parting points: Did this, not that : imagine you've already succeeded (or failed)
Teach us more, learn more --
Appendix: The seven-year conversation : how we developed these ideas.