Clever: Leading Your Smartest, Most Creative People

Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones

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If your company is like most, it has a handful of people who generate disproportionate quantities of value: A researcher creates products that bankroll the entire organization for decades. A manager spots consumer-spending patterns no one else sees and defines new market categories your enterprise can serve. A strategist anticipates global changes and correctly interprets their business implications. Companies' competitiveness, even survival, increasingly hinge on such 'clever people'. But the truth is, clever people are as fiercely independent as they are clever - they don't want to be led. So how do you corral these players in your organization and inspire them to achieve their highest potential?

In Clever, Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones offer potent insights drawn from their extensive research. Leading clever people can be enormously challenging, yet doing so effectively is the key to your organization's sustained success. Lively and engaging, this book provides the ideas, practices, and examples you need to create an environment where your most brilliant people can flourish.

Rob Goffee is Professor of Organizational Behavior at London Business School, where he teaches in the world-renowned Senior Executive Programme. Gareth Jones is a Fellow of the Centre for Management Development at London Business School and a visiting professor at INSEAD, the international business school in Fontainebleau, France.

	Introduction	xv
	Part 1 Leader and Led
1	Understanding Clever People	3
2	What Can Leaders Do?	35
	Part 2 Clever Teams
3	The Anatomy of Clever Teams	67
4	Breaking the Code of Clever Teams	101
	Part 3 Clever Organizations
5	Contours of the Clever Organization	121
6	The Future of Clever Organizations	149
	Notes	169
	Index	173

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