Change to strange : create a great organization by building a strange workforce / Daniel M. Cable.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cable, Daniel M. (Daniel Merle)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational effectiveness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 184 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Wharton School Pub. ; Pearson Education, c2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"This book is about everything it takes to build a workforce that's strange and extraordinary enough to execute your most powerful strategies and your unique value proposition. It's about understanding exactly how your workforce needs to be different; creating an end-to-end Strange Workforce Value Chain; implementing workforce systems that support your unique goals; and establishing detailed metrics based on what makes you unique, using those metrics to drive clarity throughout your entire organization, and steer it toward success."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents:

Be strange. Be very strange

Shine a flashlight into the black box that exists between your workforce and beating your competition

Organizational outcomes: how do I know I am winning in the way I want to win

Performance drivers: what must customers notice about us so that we win

Strange workforce deliverables: what our workforce does to make customers notice and love us

Job-specific strangeness: different deliverables from different jobs

Strange workforce architecture: what systems will produce the deliverables I need from my workforce

Strange workforce architecture: breaking out from the pack

Strange workforce architecture: taking the next step

The magic of metrics: creating and implementing measurement systems.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

137284106