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Hot Spots: Why Some Teams, Workplaces, and Organizations Buzz with Energy--And Others Don't.

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Hot Spots: Why Some Teams, Workplaces, and Organizations Buzz with Energy--And Others Don't

Author: Lynda Gratton Publisher: San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007 ISBN: 1576754189

Hot Spots is the third volume in the trilogy published by Lynda Gratton, professor of management practice at London Business School and global authority on the people implications of strategy. This study has something to offer to the most diverse business audience from the executives to every employee and HR professional. It presents an optimistic (appreciative) view of the future business organizations based on facts and research, not only on an academic aspiration. The study calls for those of us in business to re-examine our assumptions of what makes successful organizations and to redesign existing business and HR systems to facilitate that change.

Gratton's first volume, Living Strategy: Putting People at the Heart of Corporate Purpose (2000), starts thought-provoking conversation on the fundamental changes in the psychological contract between employees and the 21st century corporation. Gratton's basic argument is that organizations can improve their performance by placing their human resources at the center of their corporate strategy.

Her second volume, The Democratic Enterprise, Liberating Your Business with Freedom, Flexibility and Commitment (2004), fleshes out the...