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Business leaders know that the key to competitive success is smart management of scarce resources. That's why companies allocate their financial capital so carefully. But capital today is cheap and abundant, no longer a source of advantage. The truly scarce resources now are the time, the talent, and the energy of the people in your organization - resources that are too often squandered. There's plenty of advice about how to manage them, but most of it focuses on individual actions. What's really needed are organizational solutions that can unleash a company's full productive power and enable it to outpace competitors.Building off of the popular Harvard Business Review article, "Your Scarcest Resource," Michael Mankins and Eric Garton, Bain & Company experts in organizational design and effectiveness, present new research into how you can liberate people's time, talent, and energy and unleash your organization's productive power.
About the Author
Michael Mankins is a partner in Bain's San Francisco office and head of the firm's organization practice in the Americas. He is coauthor of "Time, Talent, Energy: Overcome Organizational Drag and Unleash Your Team's Productive Power" (Harvard Business Review Press, 2017) , "Decide & Deliver: Five Steps to Breakthrough Performance in Your Organization" (Harvard Business Review Press, 2010) , and "The Value Imperative: Managing for Superior Shareholder Returns" (Free Press, 1994) . His writings and ideas have appeared in numerous Harvard Business Review articles as well as in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, and many other publications. He has also been a featured speaker at conferences conducted by Harvard Business Review, Business Week, CFO Magazine, Directors & Boards, and other organizations. In 2006, Consulting magazine named Michael one of the year's "Top 25 most influential consultants."
