Перейти к содержанию сайта
Scaling Up Excellence
Book

Scaling Up Excellence

Getting to More Without Settling for Less

Crown, 2014 подробнее...

Read or listen offline

автоматическое преобразование текста в аудио
автоматическое преобразование текста в аудио

Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Applicable

Recommendation

Stanford professors Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao team up to address and help solve the difficulties of scaling up. Almost every business has departments or even random pockets of employees who excel. Problems arise when leaders try to spread that excellence to scale throughout a company or in an expansion. Most organizations – regardless of size or specialization – face similar difficulties in spreading best practices or scaling excellence as they grow. The authors use numerous engaging case studies, cite myriad academic papers and offer anecdotal evidence to codify five rules of effective scaling. Surprisingly, given the clean, concise structure of Sutton’s best-selling The No Asshole Rule, here he and Rao don’t always distinguish their revelatory ideas from commonplace notions, and they repeat several points. Even so, this is an accessible, valuable work. getAbstract recommends their perceptive, practical guide to leaders coping with the challenges of scaling.

Take-Aways

  • Whether you’re scaling a start-up or spreading excellence from one part of a firm to another, you will face similar barriers and challenges.
  • Duplicate your best practices and methods wherever possible, but remain flexible and make adjustments to be more effective in different places and conditions.
  • You can’t scale excellence from a perch. Get into the trenches and join the fight.

About the Authors

Professor Robert I. Sutton teaches management science and engineering at Stanford University, where professor Huggy Rao teaches organizational behavior in the Graduate School of Business.


Comment on this summary or Начать обсуждение

More on this topic

By the same authors

Learners who read this summary also read