Robert Townsend Bücher
Robert C. Townsend war eine Führungspersönlichkeit, die Avis Rent-a-Car durch innovative Strategien wiederbelebte. Basierend auf seinem vielfältigen beruflichen Hintergrund erzielte er eine bemerkenswerte Wende für das Unternehmen, die durch den berühmten Slogan „We Try Harder“ verkörpert wurde. Townsend besaß die einzigartige Fähigkeit, Wandel zu inspirieren und Wachstum zu fördern, und hinterließ ein Erbe mutiger Führung. Seine Erkenntnisse über Wirtschaft und Management sind bis heute relevant.
Up the Organization
How to Stop the Company Stifling People and Strangling Profits
Although it was first published more than thirty-five years ago, Up the Organization continues to top the lists of best business books by groups as diverse as the American Management Association, Strategy + Business (Booz Allen Hamilton), and The Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management. 1-800-CEO-READ ranks Townsend’s bestseller first among eighty books that “every manager must read.” This commemorative edition offers a new generation the benefit of Robert Townsend’s timeless wisdom as well as reflections on his work and life by those who knew and worked with him. This groundbreaking book continues to remind us not to get mired in all those sacred organizational routines that stifle people and strangle both profits and profitability. He shows a way to humanize business and a way to have fun while making it all work better than it ever worked before.
