Accountability Leadership

Gerald Kraines

• 01 augustus 2001
• 9781564145512

Samenvatting:

Today's conventional wisdom about management says that hierarchy is inherently bad. Throughout the literature about management and organizational behavior, we read constantly that organizations are excessively layered and autocratically layered. We reflexively believe that within such structures, individual motivation, creativity, and group initiative are stifled.


In Accountability Leadership, Gerald Kraines presents a radical and revisionist point of view in support of hierarchy and accountability as tools to boost organizational productivity.


In his work consulting for major corporations throughout the country, Greald Kraines consistently hears that 60% to 70% of any organization's potential effectiveness goes unrealized. If everyone in the organization were doing exactly what they were suppose to do and did so at full potential, imagine how much more effective companies could be!


Accountability Leadership promises no such simple miracle, but it points to the solution that awaits companies bold enough to take the risk. By reviving lost but once-effective traditional principles of management and mating them with turn-of-the-millennium managerial advancements, Accountability Leadership effectively makes one plus one equal three.


Gerald Kraines does not advocate that we simply push the delete key on all the management advances and progressive thinking of the past 25 years. Instead, he ushers in a fresh, creative new process that retains many successful principles developed during recent business history while embedding them in effective, lost principles from days gone by.


Business leaders who employ the principles put forth in Accountability Leadership stand to multiply theirchance of success and market leadership. Managers and their companies who have implemented this approach report such achievements as:
-- Cross-functional team aligned, flexible, and adaptive -- but also focused, disciplined, and accountable.
-- Clear direction and boundaries for employees, as well as an openness by management to new ideas and creative approaches.
-- Improved, free-flowing, and value-adding employee-manager communication.
-- Accurate development of each employee's full potential.
-- Ability to manage for reality by ensuring that ambitious targets are matched by the requisite authorities and resources.


Gerald Kraines believes that organizations that enact his approach will find their managers and subordinates more motivated and more empowered than they were under the so-called empowerment models they now maybe. They find themselves far more effective than their nearest competitor, blending the best of old and new and never looking back.