Corporate Punishment Smashing the Management Clichs for Leaders in a New World

by Adonis, James

• ISBN13: 9781742169866
• ISBN10: 1742169864
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-20
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Think there's no ls"I' in ls"team'? There is. Believe that together everyone achieves more? They don't. Asked to give it 110 per cent? You can't. Think employees are your greatest asset? They ain't. Got an open-door policy? For goodness sake -- shut it!Whether you're a perpetrator or a casualty of cringe-worthy corporate clicheacute;s (or both), Corporate Punishment will challenge the way you think about the world of business and the mind-numbing management mottos that have underpinned it for decades. From teams and leadership to workplace culture and customer service, James Adonis smashes to pieces some of the most deeply entrenched business philosophies, offering in their place a progressive new thought process that's light on rhetoric and boring theory, but heavy on practicality and imagination.This book is a protest, a movement, a changing of the management guard -- it is the breath of fresh air every modern business needs and a long overdue break from the hot air that most are forced to endure.

Author Biography

James Adonis is one of Australia's best-known people-management thinkers and is passionate about employee engagement. He lives in Sydney.

Table of Contents

About the author

Acknowledgements

Introduction: starting from scratch

full team ahead

There's no ‘I' in ‘team'

Together everyone achieves more

Singing from the same song/hymn sheet

strut your staff

Employees are our greatest asset

Management is not a popularity contest

Employees resist change

People don't leave jobs, they leave managers

My way or the highway

business as unusual

Work on the business, not in the business

It's nothing personal, just business

Success is a journey, not a destination

The glass ceiling

If you build it, they will come

Pick the low-hanging fruit

Hire slow, fi re fast

What gets measured gets done

all work and no say

If it ain't broke, don't fix it

Work smarter, not harder

Let's give it 110 per cent

Work/life balance

Failure is not an option

paying flip service

The customer is always right

Under-promise and over-deliver

teach for the stars

Knowledge is power

Every mistake is a learning experience

There's no such thing as a stupid question

hook, line and thinker

Think outside the box

Perception is reality

To assume makes an ass out of U and me

tickle the money bone

Time is money, money is time

Focus on the bottom line

There's no money in the budget

Do what you love and the money will follow

all's fair in love and work

It's not what you know, it's who you know

Treat people how you'd like to be treated

Coming up with a win-win solution

Having an open-door policy

end a helping hand

The hit list

Index

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