The Visionary's Handbook
The Visionary's Handbook
Watts Wacker and Jim Taylor with Howard MeansCapstoneISBN 1-84112-115-0£15.99Keywords Management, Management development
Management can be a bit like Christmas. Each year a different toy finds favour and everyone clamours for it. With management, it's the latest technique or approach and just like the latest toy fad, they're here today and invariably gone tomorrow. These new techniques and approaches fail because of people; they lack the willingness and/or ability to understand and commit to the new way of working or the patience to allow the techniques and approaches to make an impact.
The Visionary's Handbook, subtitled Nine Paradoxes That Will Shape The Future of Your Business, is designed for those who do have the willingness, the ability, the commitment and the ongoing drive to respond to its challenge.
The book starts from the paradox that because life has never been easier it has never been more difficult. It then suggests that we should rethink our approaches to managing the complexity of modern life. The other paradoxes then introduced are designed to show that we often tackle problems in old,established ways governed by our restricted, conventional thinking.
Exercises are used to encourage readers to contextualise the points made and to draw us into a journey of discovery that will help us shape our own future and that of the organisation in which we operate.
