Judgment on the Front Line: How Smart Companies Win by Trusting Their People

Judgment on the Front Line: How Smart Companies Win by Trusting Their People

By Chris DeRose and Noel M Tichy

Front-line employees can be the greatest asset--here's how to tap their rich vein of insight and leadership. Management experts DeRose and Tichy explain that most organizations don't know how to evaluate the risk of giving employees more autonomy.

READ FULL DESCRIPTION

Quantity Price Discount
List Price $26.95  
1 - 24 $22.91 15%
25 - 99 $16.71 38%
100 - 249 $16.17 40%
250 - 499 $15.63 42%
500 + $15.36 43%

Quick Quote

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit

Non-returnable discount pricing

$26.95


Book Information

Publisher: Portfolio
Publish Date: 10/11/2012
Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781591843887
ISBN-10: 159184388X
Language: English

What We're Saying

December 11, 2012

Over the course of this week, we will be posting the shortlist selections for our 8 business book categories: General Business, Leadership, Management, Innovation/Creativity, Small Business/Entrepreneurship, Marketing/Sales, Personal Development, Finance. Then on Monday, December 17th, we'll announce the category winners, and, on Wednesday, December 19th, we'll celebrate the overall winner of the 2012 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards! Stay tuned. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

Full Description

Front-line employees who deal directly with customers are the face of any organization. Not only do they have the most impact on how a brand is perceived, but they are also the most valuable source of insight into what customers want and how to give it to them. Unfortunately, as management experts Chris DeRose and Noel M. Tichy explain, most organizations don't know how to evaluate the risk of giving employees more autonomy. Many of those who are willing to try haven't even invested resources in ensuring that-once the shackles are off-front-line employees make good judgments. Tichy and DeRose offer powerful examples of front-line leadership, such as: How Zappos trusts its people to do anything in service of a customer, including providing free product or reimbursing for mistakes How Mayo Clinic of Arizona enabled its nurses to challenge the hierarchy in order to improve patient care

About the Authors

Chris DeRose is the New York Times Bestselling Author of Founding Rivals: Madison vs. Monroe, the Bill of Rights, and the Election that Saved a Nation, and The Presidents' War: Six American Presidents and the Civil War That Divided Them. He w

Learn More


Noel M. Tichy is a professor at the University of Michigan Business School, director of the school's Global Leadership Partnership, and former head of GE's Crotonville Leadership Development Center. He is the author of the best seller Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will (with Stratford Sherman).

Learn More

We have updated our privacy policy. Click here to read our full policy.