Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-247) and index.
Concrete slippers or helium high tops : the management secrets behind wildly successfuly initiatives -- Locked in Lima : an oil refinery at risk creates a new future -- Secret #1: reach beyond your grasp -- The connected revenue agency: Stansylvania's tax administration learns to love change -- Secret #2: make space -- The bigger dig: unconventional scientists break new ground in underwater mining -- Secret #3: get it right -- AIRNow : EPA mavericks show that good air quality has grass roots -- Secret #4: energize people -- Coplink : unconventional collaboration revolutionizes law enforcement -- Secret #5: spiral up -- Working wonders : putting the pieces together.
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"Have you ever wondered why a so-called "best management practice" produces mediocre results? What if a team wanted to do something truly spectacular? What if it wanted to make a real impact?" "Stunning accomplishments never come from following the management cookbook, no matter how much care and discipline we use in sticking to the recipe. If you want to work wonders, you've got to abandon the accepted, linear, day-by-day management mindset and step into the real world. It's anything but mechanical." "Spiral Up encourages you to think backwards, or more accurately, upside down. Based on a study of more than forty incredibly successful initiatives, the book shows not how to lay a project out step-by-step, but how to let it develop a life of its own."--Jacket.