Never Mind the Bosses (PDF)

Over the last few decades, power, information and resources have
moved from being concentrated in the hands of a few, to being
disbursed across many. We need look no further than events on the
world stage to see the heat signature of this - from the
arrival of Wikileaks, the Arab Spring of 2011 and the Occupy
movements, to the social media revolution and flashpoints such as
the British Members of Parliament expenses scandal. All are
examples of deep change occurring.

This book is about what this means for the workplace and for
management. The proposition offered here is that our
organisations need to catch up, and that the "death of
deference" that we are seeing elsewhere in society needs to
be accelerated in the workplace.

Systems of deference slow down organisational performance.
Deference prevents organisations from learning. It stops them
from being agile, innovative and ethical. Deference is the
enemy of organisational success and it needs to be dismantled so
that in its place we can build modern organisations with a new
breed of managers and leaders. This book offers a solution to
a problem that belongs in the last century, and a game plan for
nothing short of a workplace revolution.

"If deference is dead, this book is about the resurrection of
the effective manager in a world where nothing is quite the way it
used to be. Powerful and thought-provoking from start to
finish."

- Jeremy
Vine, BBC Presenter and Author

"Never Mind the Bosses is a refreshing type of
management book, it advocates that deference to authority figures
needs to go if we are to have engaged workforces."

- Cary L.
Cooper, CBE, Distinguished Professor of Organizational Psychology
and Health at Lancaster University Management School

"An engaging and entertaining romp through the post punk world.
By going beyond the boundaries of most business books, Ryde gives
us all food for thought about how organisations are, or are not,
dealing with a rapidly changing society and workforce."

- Jo Owen,
bestselling author of 'How to Manage' and 'How to
Lead'

"If you are looking for a book that will shake up your
thinking about how to improve your organization's performance
- or worried that your competitors will find it first!
- try this one."

-
Professor Dutch Leonard, Harvard Business School & Harvard
University's John F. Kennedy School of Government