J C Spender: 3 books
Strategic Conversations
Creating and Directing the Entrepreneurial Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Most organizations fail to take full advantage of their employees' knowledge, initiative, and imagination. In this accessible and practical book, J.-C. Spender and Bruce Strong provide a guide for building entrepreneurial workforces through carefully designed conversations between management and employees....
Business Strategy
Managing Uncertainty, Opportunity, and Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
What is strategy? For many it is the application of a theory, model or framework. In this book Spender develops a different creative approach. Emphasizing that firms face uncertainties and unknowns (knowledge gaps) he argues that the core of strategic thinking and processes rests on the organization's...
Confronting Managerialism
How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
Confronting Managerialism offers a scathing critique of the influence of neoclassical economics and modern finance on business school teaching and management practice. Locke and Spender show that responsible management has given way to ‘managerialism’, whereby an elite caste of businessmen disconnected...