The Management Shift: How to Harness the Power of People and Transform Your Organization for Sustainable Success

Research shows that corporate life expectancy and performance have declined 75% in the last 50 years - organizations need a different approach if they are to survive, let alone thrive. While people are often stated as a company’s greatest asset, few businesses have a clear model of leadership that improves engagement, removes barriers to innovation, and uncovers hidden strengths in people and the organization. This book addresses that need and, more importantly, demonstrates HOW organizations can make The Management Shift to a new way of thinking and working. Professor Hlupic argues that organizations now need to adopt a leadership style that focuses on people, purpose and knowledge sharing, creating new types of value and ultimately improving innovation and engagement - leading to improved business. Based on leading-edge research supported by numerous case studies, which demonstrate the power and impact of change, The Management Shift offers managers a practical and systemic approach to diagnose leadership issues in their organization. It then provides an implementation process to shift their mindset and organizational culture to the new level of thinking, performance, and ultimately business success.

Vlatka Hlupic is a Professor of Business and Management at the University of Westminster, an Adjunct Faculty at London Business School and founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Drucker Society, London. She is a renowned event speaker, presenting regularly at major conferences worldwide and has published more than 160 academic articles, including the award winning ’To be a Better Leader, Give up Authority’, Harvard Business Review. Professor Hlupic is a respected leadership and management consultant and has advised major international organizations including the House of Commons, GlaxoSmithKline, BP, Learndirect, Brand Velocity USA, the Drucker Institute USA, Croatian Government and the Hungarian National Bank. A sought-after thought leader, she has a growing media platform and her expert commentaries and interviews have appeared in the national press including The Times, Sunday Telegraph, Independent and Guardian as well as leading industry publications such as Edge Magazine, Marketing Magazine, Business Executive, HR Magazine, Strategy Magazine, New Europe and the Training Journal. She has led the development of four Management 2.0 ’hacks’ within Gary Hamel’s Management Innovation Exchange Management 2.0 Hackathon, and as a result of this was invited to give a TEDx talk in Oslo in 2012.