Energise Your Enterprise [Paperback]

In this new book Peter Wickens gets to the very core of what makes a successful and dynamic enterprise. Building upon his earlier work in, The Ascendant Organisation and slaying a number of business fads and sacred cows along the way, he shows how to energise the enterprise in key areas such as leadership, teamworking and innovation. With the use of many examples and cases and building upon considerable experience he shows the way forward for companies to achieve a sense of purpose and to energise their organisations. If you are tired of the latest business fad then this will be the book for you.Prologue: The Business Fad Cycle The Ascendant Organisation Energising Leadership The Leader as Strategist The Heart of Leadership Values First A Sense of Purpose Real Teamworking Innovation Organising the Energised Enterprise Energised Change

'Brilliant! The questioning of conventional wisdom and the original thinking of Energise Your Enterprise has had a profound effect on me. On top of this, its sheer practicality will ensure that we can respond positively to its many ideas and challenges.' - Reg Hankey, Managing Director, Pittards plc

'Peter Wickens has that rare if not unique mixture of having done it, the ability to think about it and to explain it. A book with the ideas to help us change our businesses, and the guidance on how to implement and measure progress.' - Sir Ian Gibson CBE, Vice-President, Nissan Europe

'Authoritative, accessible and entertaining! Peter Wickens' constant challenges to think anew strike a real chord. His down-to-earth style will enable all executives and managers in all businesses to energise their own enterprise and to excel.' - Simon Lebus, Chairman and Chief Executive, Kitchen Range Foods

'This no-nonsense book shows how to release the creativity, ingenuity, imagination and energy of every person in every enterprise. It has a world-wide market.' - Sir Geoffrey Holland KCB, Vicls