A Bias for Action: How Effective Managers Harness Their Willpower, Achieve Results, and Stop Wasting Time Heike Bruch, Sumantra Ghoshal
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
ISBN: 1591394082
Edition: Hardcover; 2004-05-01
Summary:
The Surprising Truth About Effective Managers Why do most managers
work so hard but accomplish so little? We have blamed everything from
a lack of motivation, time, and money to the overwhelming amount of
work and corporate bureaucracy that managers face. But a new study
suggests a different cause: how much willpower managers bring to
their jobs. In A Bias for Action, Sumantra Ghoshal and Heike Bruch
show that managers often confuse action with accomplishment, and
motivation with leading. Their research has revealed that 90% of
managers spin their wheels by procrastinating, detaching emotionally,
and distracting themselves with busywork-while only 10% act
purposefully to get truly important work done. Based on exclusive
research across several industries, and illustrated through stirring
personal stories, A Bias for Action shows that great managers produce
results not by motivating others, but by engaging their own willpower
through a powerful combination of energy and focus. Bruch and Ghoshal
provide simple strategies for bolstering your own willpower and
action-taking abilities, and explore ways to marshal the willpower of
others to encourage collective action. Upending conventional thinking
about the requirements for effective leadership, this book will help
CEOs and frontline managers alike to stop simply doing things-and
start getting things done.
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