| The Challenge Culture Lib/E: Why the Most Successful Organizations Run on Pushback Contributor(s): Travis, Nigel (Author), Malcolm, Graeme (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1549146327 ISBN-13: 9781549146329 Publisher: Public Affairs OUR PRICE: $81.89 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: September 2018 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Workplace Culture - Business & Economics | Organizational Behavior - Biography & Autobiography | Business |
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| Publisher Description: The charismatic, accessible, and down-to-earth CEO of Dunkin' Brands (Dunkin' Donuts, Baskin-Robbins) shows how positive pushback-the discipline of questioning everything without trashing anyone-provides a unique results-oriented way to lead an organization to prosperity. We live in a world where the move from success to failure can happen in a flash. Customers, competition, changing societal mores, and technology can bring on existential crisis. But as Dunkin' Brands Chairman and CEO Nigel Travis shows in The Challenge Culture, businesses can cope with change and go on to thrive by instituting a culture that supports positive pushback: questioning everything without trashing anything or anyone. The ability to get colleagues to break out of conformity-especially when it means upending a culture of fear and authoritarianism-is a rare skill, one Nigel (everyone calls him Nigel) has been developing for decades. In a distinct, authentic, and authoritative voice, Nigel draws from a wide range of personal experiences-including the way Blockbuster dawdled in the face of the Netflix challenge, his early days at Dunkin' Donuts, and his recent foray into owning a UK soccer team-to show how a challenge culture is necessary to provide a human-oriented, results-driven blueprint for building a prosperous future. To keep up with the times and grow, people need to be allowed to speak up and question the status quo, talk in a civil way about difficult issues, debate across disciplines, disagree about strategies and tactics in order to successfully move forward together. |
Contributor Bio(s): Malcolm, Graeme: - Graeme Malcolm is an actor and Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator. He has performed on Broadway as Pharaoh in Aida and as Sir Edward Ramsay in The King and I. His television appearances include Law & Order, Follow the River, and Mr. Halpern and Mr. Johnson (with Laurence Olivier). His film credits include A Further Gesture, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, and Reunion. Travis, Nigel: -Nigel Travis was named Chief Executive Officer of Dunkin' Brands in January 2009 and appointed to the additional role of Chairman of the Board in May 2013. In 2017 he became the owner of Leyton Orient Football, a troubled professional soccer team that presents a unique opportunity to implement his challenge culture strategy. |