琳达·格拉顿是伦敦商学院的管理学教授，她曾主持过商学院的“企业高层计划”、“变革中组织的人力资源策略”等项目。《人性管理黄金定律》、《什么样的公司才叫好公司：民主化的公司是好公司》、《战略性人力资源管理》的作者。两次被伦敦泰晤士报评为世界顶级管理思想大师。

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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