琳達·格拉頓是倫敦商學院的管理學教授，她曾主持過商學院的“企業高層計劃”、“變革中組織的人力資源策略”等項目。《人性管理黃金定律》、《什麼樣的公司纔叫好公司：民主化的公司是好公司》、《戰略性人力資源管理》的作者。兩次被倫敦泰晤士報評為世界頂級管理思想大師。

Bestselling author Lynda Gratton - a world-renowned authority on business strategy - takes an extensive look at "Hot Spots" -- places and times where cooperation flourishes, resulting in productivity and excitement. Now, these previously unexplained flares of ideas and innovation are thoroughly examined, as Gratton shows how to develop of "Hot Spots" within ones own environment.

What organization wouldn't want to encourage "places and times where cooperation flourishes, thus creating great energy, innovation, productivity and excitement"? This final volume in a trilogy of books on creating energy at work by London Business School professor Gratton (after Living Strategy and The Democratic Enterprise) attempts to analyze the ingredients of positive workplace energy. Gratton details ways to foster a cooperative mindset, remove boundaries between people, give them a sense of purpose and increase their productive capacity, drawing on examples from organizations like BP and Nokia. But despite her interesting and well-organized findings, some readers may find her intensive focus on scientific research too academic, particularly the complicated diagrams and formulae for workplace qualities that are difficult to quantify. (Feb.)

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