Peak Performance
Subtitle: Aligning the Hearts and Minds of Your Employees
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Published: March 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780875849362
Subjects: Personnel & human resources management; Personnel And Human Resources Management; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Personnel management; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources & Personnel Management; Management; Human Resources; Employee motivation
First sentence: In my first meeting with Steve Messana, senior vice president of Human Resources at The Home Depot, he captured the power of frontline commitment in the following simple statement: We encourage all of our people to come up with their own ideas to capture the customer's attention, and to try them out-there's no need for approval here.
Description: "In Peak Performance, Jon Katzenbach draws from a study of twenty-five enterprises from a range of industries to show how the best organizations harness and maximize the positive emotional energy of their workforces.

Pointing to detailed case studies, he reveals that in spite of dramatic differences in business priorities, marketplace dynamics, and leadership philosophies, every company - whether airline, software producer, or restaurant chain - consistently pursued one or more of five distinct paths in building and sustaining exceptional levels of employee performance."--BOOK JACKET.