Lean Organisations need F.A.T People.

Bay Jordan has proven himself as a manager and a leader in Southern Africa, Canada, and the UK. He attributes his career successes to an ability to help people recognise what needs to be done and then allowing them to get on and do it as they see best.

Early in his management career he was surprised when his manager fed back as a negative the comment that, "Your people are better than you!" Having personally recruited and retained his team, Bay considered this to be a great compliment. In fact, after learning that he shared his philosophy with Andrew Carnegie who wanted to put on his gravestone,"Here lies a man who knew how to put into his service more able men than he was himself," he still considers the compliment to be one of the greatest he has received.

Unfortunately, even today, his former manager's attitude prevails and is symptomatic of a prescriptive management style that inhibits performance and effective teamwork in most organisations. In this book he explains the problem and shares ideas about creating the co-operation that will make any organisation more effective

ISBN: 0-9768447-4-5

Cover Price - Ł9.99/$18.50
Binding type - Perfect
Page Count - 144
Publication Date - June 2005
Trim Size - 6.14" x 9.21"
Swanstone Wynot Publishers

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‘Lean Organisations Need FAT People, How to Grow your Human Assets - 2nd Edition’ Copyright 2005, Bay Jordan.

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"An interesting book that I thoroughly enjoyed. How often we hear the statement that people are an organisation's greatest asset, yet in this book the author debunks the glibness of the statement whilst showing the real truth that underpins it. With a light, easy-to-read style, he argues the case for people being the ultimate critical success factor and the need for organisations to recognise this fact. He depicts organisations as ultimately being teams and builds on this to make the point that optimising performance is thus dependent on aligning personal and organisational goals. While there is nothing revolutionary in that, his ideas for developing the requisite teamwork might well be, and are even more striking for their sheer simplicity and logic. I would not hesitate to recommend this book to any corporate leader, HR Manager or change agent looking to create an empowered, entrepreneurial organisation. " Tia Griffiths - Amazon Review

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