How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People

Produced

• 2001

Key Features

Video type: VHS
Length: 52 mins. (2001)

a Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Briefing

Featuring:
Charles O'Reilly III
Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Program Highlights:

• Common assumptions about workers that are totally wrong.
• Why money is a terrible motivator.
• People-centered practices that can double productivity.
Challenging the prevailing wisdom that companies must chase and acquire outside talent in order to remain successful, Dr. O'Reilly argues instead that the source of sustained competitive advantage already exists within every organization. O'Reilly's prescription for an overheated labor market: abandon the obsession with hiring high-priced stars and instead, motivate ordinary people to build a great company and achieve extraordinary results.

Charles O'Reilly III is the Stanford University Graduate School of Business Frank E. Buck Professor of Human Resources Management and Organizational Behavior. Last year, he was a visiting professor at the Harvard Business School. He holds a BS in chemistry from the University of Texas, as well as an MBA in information systems and a PhD in organizational behavior, both from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. O'Reilly is the author of Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People.