If your company is like most, it has a handful of people who generate disproportionate quantities of value: Companies' competitiveness, even survival, increasingly hinge on such "clever people." But the truth is, clever people are as fiercely independent as they are clever-they don't want to be led. So how do you corral these players in your organisation and inspire them to achieve their highest potential?
In Clever, Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones offer potent insights drawn from their extensive research.
Leading clever people can be enormously challenging, yet doing so effectively is the key to your organisation's sustained success. Lively and engaging, this book provides the ideas, practices, and examples you need to create an environment where your most brilliant people can flourish.
The authors explain how to: - Identify your clever people and their motivations
- Shelter your "clevers" from political distractions that can inhibit their productivity
- Help clevers generate even more value by creating clever teams
- Manage the unique tensions that can arise when clevers work together
“A practical and insightful must-read. This book is for any leader who wants to fully understand and harness the power of high-performance ‘clever’ people and teams in their companies get extraordinary results.” Paul Polman, CEO Unilever
“I love this original and important book, one that should be on the book shelf of anyone who cares about how leaders and their ‘clever’ people can make their organization hum with excitement.” Waren Bennis, University Professor, University of California; author, On Becoming a Leader
“Talent management today is synonymous with leading ‘clevers’. Goffee and Jones have demystified and captured all the nuances of ‘clevers’ in this must-read book for managers at any level who aspire to be powerful leaders.” Kamlesh Pande, Vice President (Innovation and R&D), Thermax, India
“Could it be that a failure to lead some of our most talented and creative- or ‘clever’ – people was one of the causes of the global financial crisis? In this timely and accessible book, Goffee and Jones describe the challenges in leading the clever individuals and teams that can make the difference between corporate success and failure.” Laura Tyson, S.K. and Angela Chan Chair of Global Management, Hass School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
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