How does my company actually work? How do I become a better manager? How can I fit these pieces together to get ahead? The success of any business ultimately depends upon the performance of its managers. Built around an easy-to-understand visual framework, this book is a no-nonsense guide to understanding the business relationships within your organization, managing more effectively and putting yourself ahead of your peers. The author aims to teach readers how to recognize what their own organization does well and does badly, then provides the hands-on management tools for enhancing its...

Guiding readers through the various strategies that have abounded in the past decade, this book exposes the weaknesses in each and shows why today's businesses and staff must be re-inspired to enable them to grow again. A new champion cause for business, re-inspiration is an ethic, a positive step forward which seeks to promote collective creativity and belief by re-establishing the contract between employees and the firm. Drawing hidden lessons from the most successful and enduring organizations in history - the world's great religions - Scott explores what actually drives people to work...