Review
"...grappling with perhaps the biggest management challenge of our
times ...Gratton has written a succinct and utterly compelling book. She is
really a kind of one-woman hot spot herself." Stefan Stern, The Financial Times, February 2007
"...confirming [Gratton's] position as one of the few female management gurus globally " People Management February 2007 "Lynda Gratton is set to be catapulted to the very top of the tree as far as management gurus are concerned ... if we could just perfect the Dolly-the-sheep cloning tecnology and get a few more Grattons out there, we would really be in business." - Accounting & Business Magazine April 2007 "This stimulating book ... will bring her a keen readership among business leaders." Director April 2007
"At last help is at hand with a book that engages the reader with real case studies and then delivers with a set of tools and techniques to help you take the first step - and the next, and the next" Human Resources April 2008
People Management, February 2007
management gurus globally
Accounting & Business Magazine April 2007
Director Magazine, April 2007
Yvette Borcia and Gerry Stern "Stern's Manage...
innovation. They exist when the creative enthusiasm emerges within and
between people. As a human phenomon that generates innovative results and
competitive advantage, there seems to be a nearly magical aura about their
reality, which the author fully succeeds in capturing in concrete terms,
showing what makes these groups so amazing.
Hot Spots can not be created, but must emerge; leadership, however, can
create the right circumstances to allow a Hot Spot to come to life,
focusing on practices, processes, norms, or behaviors; the book provides
maps and scenarios that reveal how such levers work.
A Hot Spot is a multiplicative blending of three elements:
1. a cooperative mindset (melding intellectual, social, and emotional
capital),
2. boundary spanning (the depth and extent of relationships), and
3. an igniting purpose which stems from energizing questions, visions or
tasks,
Hot Spots are sustained by a fourth element, productive capacity,
consisting of five productive practices: appreciating talent, making
commitments, resolving conflicts, synchronizing time, and establishing a
rhythm.
Based on extensive research, the author explores the dynamic nature and
elements of Hot Spots. The book's Appendix A provides diagnostic questions
and instruments for leaders to apply in practice. The concept of Hot Spots
is brought into sharp focus in this fascinating book. The author's insights
make for compelling reading. If innovation is important to you, this book
is MUST READING. Highly recommended
Anna Tavis
performing organizations, Dr. Gratton offers an alternative way to resolve
the endless pursuit of the right answers to the challenging questions of
business growth, employee engagement and enterprise sustainability.
Based
on her rigorous research and thoughtful reflection, Hot Spots deliver a
provocative message. The organizations that buzz with healthy energy and
draw talent to themselves produce innovative solutions and deliver results.
Those are the outcomes rather than goals. The innovative and sustainable
cultures cannot be engineered; they have to be nurtured and let the hot
spots "emerge." Dr. Gratton convincingly concludes that focusing on
the right things such as collaborative ways of working, cultivating
relationships, and motivating people through meaningful purpose, vision,
and goals is what really matters.
There is a new art of leadership that
is modelled in the study. It is the leadership that knows how to create the
environments that become magnets of diverse talent and paradigm changing
ideas.
The book is a must for those of us who want to stay relevant in
the evolving 21 century organizations.
Human Resources April 2008
Product Description
We've all heard about companies and teams that are buzzing with ideas, innovation and sheer trendiness - think Nokia, think Google, think Starbucks. Sometimes, without warning or explanation, there are condensed periods of growth and innovation within an organisation or culture. For a short time, new ideas flow freely and growth, co-operation and success are achieved at a level that exceeds all expectations. These are Hot Spots. But why do they occur in some companies and teams and not others? How can you avoid the Big Freeze and instead encourage these centres of creativity, action and energy?
Hot Spots presents this powerful new idea which holds enormous potential for increasing productivity, co-operation and innovation. Hot Spots can be found anywhere that ideas converge - workplaces, companies, industries, coffee shops, hallways, conferences. And distance is no barrier either: Hot Spots can thrive across different geographical locations and different time zones. Based on extensive research with industry leaders such as BP, Nokia, Adidas, Linux, Goldman Sachs, Ogilvy One, Unilever and Reuters, Hot Spots explores the conditions and environments that are conducive to the creation of Hot Spots.
With Hot Spots you can achieve higher levels of effectiveness and productivity than you ever thought possible.
From the Author
About the Author
Dr Lynda Gratton is Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour at London Business School. She has been named the number 1 strategic thinker in the world in an article published in the periodical Strategic Human Resource Management and has also been named as one of the premier business and management thinkers in the world. The Financial Times (December 1, 2005) has published a list compiled every two years of the top 50 business thinkers in the world, and Lynda is number 34 on the list.
