Maximum Performance
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MAXIMUM
PERFORMANCE
This book is dedicated to the visionary pioneers who created the world we now live in; and to those who are creating the world we will inhabit in the future.
MAXIMUM
PERFORMANCE
A practical guide to leading and managing people at work
Nick Forster
Professor at The Graduate School of Management, University of
Western Australia
Edward Elgar
Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA
© Nick Forster 2005
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical or photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher.
Published by
Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Glensanda House
Montpellier Parade
Cheltenham
Glos GL50 1UA
UK
Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc.
136 West Street
Suite 202
Northampton
Massachusetts 01060
USA
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 1 84542 000 4 (cased)
Typeset by Cambrian Typesetters, Frimley, Surrey
Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall
Acclaim for Maximum Performance
‘In my experience a major shortcoming of most “how to” books on leadership and management is that they purport to offer “Silver Bullets” – magical solutions that, once revealed, will enrich and transform the reader and his or her organisation. Regrettably, business life is not that simple. Rather, it is characterised by uncertainty and lack of precedent and complicated by the different wants, needs and motivations of people. Nick Forster’s practical book, grounded in many years of leadership and management development and
MBA education, recognises this complexity and the folly of
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MAXIMUM
PERFORMANCE
This book is dedicated to the visionary pioneers who created the world we now live in; and to those who are creating the world we will inhabit in the future.
MAXIMUM
PERFORMANCE
A practical guide to leading and managing people at work
Nick Forster
Professor at The Graduate School of Management, University of
Western Australia
Edward Elgar
Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA
© Nick Forster 2005
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical or photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher.
Published by
Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Glensanda House
Montpellier Parade
Cheltenham
Glos GL50 1UA
UK
Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc.
136 West Street
Suite 202
Northampton
Massachusetts 01060
USA
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 1 84542 000 4 (cased)
Typeset by Cambrian Typesetters, Frimley, Surrey
Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall
Acclaim for Maximum Performance
‘In my experience a major shortcoming of most “how to” books on leadership and management is that they purport to offer “Silver Bullets” – magical solutions that, once revealed, will enrich and transform the reader and his or her organisation. Regrettably, business life is not that simple. Rather, it is characterised by uncertainty and lack of precedent and complicated by the different wants, needs and motivations of people. Nick Forster’s practical book, grounded in many years of leadership and management development and
MBA education, recognises this complexity and the folly of
Bibliography: (Maxim Gorky, 1970) If you want people to be motivated to do a good job, give them a good job (Frederick Herzberg, 1968) If work were so great, the rich would have hogged it long ago. (Mark Twain, 1890) The complex nature of motivation (Charles O’Reilly and Jeffrey Pfeffer, Hidden Value, 2000) Motivation is one of the most written about, complex, contradictory within the context of the decentralization of the Imperial Roman Civil Service (George, 1972)