Lynda Gratton
Lynda Gratton is Professor of Management Practices at London Business School. She is considered one of the world’s authorities on human resources strategy and actively advises companies across the world. Professor Gratton’s book “Living Strategy”, originally published in 2000, has been translated into more than 15 languages and was rated by US CEOs as one of the most important books of the year.
A more recent book, "The Democratic Enterprise", was described by the Financial Times as a work of important scholarship. Her article Integrating the Enterprise, which examines cooperative strategies, was awarded the MIT Sloan Management Review best article of the year in 2002 and her case study of BP’s peer assist integration practices won the 2005 ECC best strategy case of the year award.
In 2008, she was listed as one of the top 20 thinkers in the The Times’ “The Thinkers 50” - a global rankings of the most important and influential business thinkers. In 2007 Lynda published “Hot Spots”; why some places and teams buzz w th energy and innovation and others don’t , and in 2009 Lynda published “Glow: how you radiate energy, innovation and success”.
Expertise
Issues of human resources, social capital and innovation. In 'Hot Spots' - published in early 2007 - she examines how innovative energy is created and maintained. Consultant to a number of major multi-national companies on their human resource strategy.
Publications include
Bridging Faultlines in Diverse Teams, Sloan Management Review (2007); Eight ways to build collaborative teams, Harvard Business Review (2007); Hot Spots (Berritt-Koehler, 2007); The Exceptional Manager (with R Delbridge and G Johnson) Oxford University Press (2006); Beyond Best Practice, Sloan Management Review (2006); The Democratic Enterprise (FT, Prentice Hall, 2003); Integrating the Enterprise, Sloan Management Review (2003); Living Strategy: Putting People at the Heart of Corporate Purpose (FT, Prentice Hall, 2000); Human Resource Strategy; Organizational Rhetoric and Individual Reality (with V Hope-Hailey, P Stiles and C Truss, Oxford University Press, 1999).
Research interest
Person-job interaction, corporate culture, human resource management strategy, organisational change, strategic management, organisational learning, innovation.
Other activities
Board Member, American Human Resource Planning Society, Advisory Board member, Concours Group and Exult: Academic Board member, America Organizational Development Network.
Formerly
Chief Psychologist, British Airways; Director, Human Resources Division, PA Consulting Group