Powerhouse
Subtitle: insider accounts into the world's top high-performance organizations
By: Brian MacNeice and James Bowen
Contributors: Bowen, James, 1967- author
Publisher: Kogan Page
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780749478315
Subjects: Performance; Corporate culture; Organizational effectiveness; Success in business
Description: To understand what makes these organizations great, MacNeice and Bowen have conducted immersive and personal research; investigating their culture, interviewing their leaders and observing their everyday practice. Despite this diverse range of seemingly contrasting industries - business, sport, technology, finance, the arts - each of these successful institutions share a common bond: they are world-class industry leaders and have repeatedly outperformed their competition.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Grameen Bank : the bank of the villages; title: Médecins sand frontiéres : Témoignage; title: bearing witness to conflict and disaster; title: Southwest Airlines : without a heart, it's just a machine; title: US Marine Corps : Semper fidelis; title: always faithful; title: Curtis Institute of music; title: The Finnish state school education system : candles of the nation; title: Tata group : nation builders; title: St Louis Cardinals : the birds on the bat; title: Inside the Mariinsky; title: the Kirov; title: New Zealand rugby : better people make better all Blacks; title: Mayo Clinic : the three shields of health; title: Toyota Motor Corporation : everybody wins; title: Conclusion : becoming a performance powerhouse.