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Lynda Gratton (born February 1955) a British
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of Management Practice at
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known for her work on organisational behaviour.


Biography

Born in
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England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...
, the oldest of four children, Gratton took a degree in
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degree followed by a
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Liverpool University , mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning , established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 200 ...
. After graduation, Gratton started her career at
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, where she was Chief
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. In 1982 she moved to the management consultancy firm
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, where she became
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. In 1989 she started her academic career as assistant professor at
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. In 2004 she was appointed Senior Fellow of the UK's Advanced Institute of Management Practice. In 2006 she became the founding director of the Lehman Centre for Women in Business at the London Business School. In 2005 she founde
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a specialist research and consulting team that bridges academia and business. In October 2009 HSM Advisory launched the Future of Work Research Consortium, spearheading an experiment in co-creation among management, academics and executives. To date, the Future of Work Research Consortium has brought together executives from more than 110 global companies in
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. Gratton is a Fellow of the
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and has chaired the WEF Council on Leadership. She chairs the Drucker prize panel and is on the governing body of London Business School. She continues to work with many of the world's biggest companies, including
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. She was for many years the judging panel of the
Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award ''Financial Times'' Business Book of the Year Award is an annual award given to the best business book of the year as determined by the ''Financial Times''. It aims to find the book that has 'the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern ...
. Her book ''
The 100-Year Life ''The 100-Year Life'' is a 2016 self-help book by Lynda Gratton, professor of management practice at London Business School London Business School (LBS) is a business school and a constituent college of the federal University of London. LBS ...
: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity'' was shortlisted for the 2016
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Work

In 2000 she published ''Living Strategy: Putting People at the Heart of Corporate Purpose'', which has since been translated into more than 15
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s. It looks at how to place employees in the context of a business with all its competing attractions, and how organisations should understand and empower staff. It includes case studies from
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and Graxo Wellcome. In 2002, Gratton's article "Integrating the Enterprise" which examined cooperative strategies, was awarded the
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Sloan Management Review best article of the year. In 2003 she published ''The Democratic Enterprise: Liberating your Business with Freedom, Flexibility and Commitment'', which was described by
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as a work of important scholarship and has provided a fascinating insight into how companies will change over the coming decades. Her 2005 case study with S. Ghoshal, of BP's peer assist integration practices called "BP: Organisational Transformation" won the ECCH Best Strategy Case of the year award and went on to win the best case of the year. In 2007 her book ''Hot Spots: Why Some Companies Buzz with Energy and Innovation – and Others Don't'' was rated by the Financial Times as one of the most important business books of 2007. It has since been translated into more than 10 languages. Her 2009 book ''Glow: how to bring energy and innovation to your life'' gave practical exercises to enable people to become more innovative, collaborative and better connected. In 2009, Lynda Gratton founded the Future of Work Research Consortium, which is a collaborative research project that creates insights into what the future of work will look like, and how organisations can prepare. In 2011, Gratton published ''The Shift: The Future of Work is Already Here'', which looks at the future of work and was supported by the innovative research carried out in the Future of Work Research Consortium, and in 2014 ''The Key – How Corporations Succeed by Solving the World's Toughest Problems''.


Awards and recognition

In 2008 ''
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'' selected her as the business thinker most likely to make a real difference over the next decade. In 2011 she was ranked by
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as one of the top 15 Business Thinkers in the world today. And in 2011 she was ranked number one in Human Resources Magazine's "Top 25 HR Most Influential UK Thinkers 2011" poll. In 2012 ''The Shift'' received the business book of the year award in Japan and has been translated into more than 15 languages. In 2013 she was awarded the Life Time Achievement Award by HR Magazine and equally in 2013 she was amongst the 15 top thought leaders in the Thinkers50 ranking. In 2015 ''The Key'' won the CMI Management Book of the Year. This book looks at the impact of the changing world on corporate practices and processes and on leadership. In 2016, Lynda Gratton and co-author Professor Andrew Scott, published ''The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity'', which, translated into many languages, continues to generate significant interest across the world, also in Japan, where it quickly became a bestseller. It was shortlisted for the FT Business Book of the Year award. Lynda's work has been acknowledged globally – she has won the Tata prize in India; in the US she has been named as the annual Fellow of NAHR and won the CCL prize; whilst in Australia she has won the HR prize. In 2017, Lynda became an Advisor for @GoogleOrg’s initiative to help people prepare for the changing nature of work and was also, as the only foreigner, invited by
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of Japan to join a new advisory council “Council for designing the 100-year-life society”.


Selected publications

Lynda Gratton has written several books and academic articles on organisational behaviour. Books, a selection: * Gratton, Lynda (1999) ''Strategic Human Resource Management: Corporate Rhetoric and Human Reality'', Oxford University Press, May 1999. * Gratton, Lynda (2000) ''Living Strategy: Putting People at the Heart of Corporate Purpose'', Financial Times/Prentice Hall, April 2000. * Gratton, Lynda (2004) ''The Democratic Enterprise: Liberating your Business with Freedom, Flexibility and Commitment'', Financial Times/Prentice Hall, 2004. * Gratton, Lynda (2007) ''Hot Spots: Why Some Teams, Workplaces, and Organisations Buzz with Energy and Others Don't'', Financial Times/Prentice Hall, 2007. * Gratton, Lynda (2009) ''Glow: How you can radiate energy, innovation and success'', Financial Times/Prentice Hall, 2009. * Gratton, Lynda (2011) ''The Shift: The Future of Work is Already Here'', HarperCollins Business, 2011. * Gratton, Lynda (2014) ''The Key: How Corporations Succeed by Solving the World's Toughest Problems'', McGraw-Hill Education, 2014. * Gratton, Lynda & Scott, Andrew (2016) ''100-year life: living and working in an age of longevity'', Bloomsbury 2016. * Gratton, Lynda & Scott, Andrew (2021) ''The New Long Life: A Framework for Flourishing in a Changing World'', Bloomsbury 2021. * Gratton, Lynda (2022) ''Redesigning Work: How to Transform Your Organisation and Make Hybrid Work for Everyone'', Penguin Business 2022. Articles, a selection: *The Challenge of Scaling Soft Skills by Lynda Gratton in the MIT Sloan Management Review 2018 *How Leaders Face the Future of Work by Lynda Gratton in the MIT Sloan Management Review 2018 *The Long Journey to Understanding Intangible Assets by Lynda Gratton in the MIT Sloan Management Review 2018 *Corporate Implications of Longer Lives by Lynda Gratton & Andrew Scott in the MIT Sloan Management Review 2017 Spring Vol 58:3 p 63-70 * Rethinking the Manager's Role by Lynda Gratton in the MIT Sloan Management Review 2016 Fall Vol 58:1 p 24-27 * Gender role self-concept, categorical gender, and transactional-transformational leadership: Implications for perceived workgroup performance by Lynda Gratton and J H Wolfram in the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies 2014 Vol 21:4 p 338-353 * The Third Wave of Virtual Work By Lynda Gratton & Tammy Johns Published in the Harvard Business Review: January 2013 * End of the Middle Manager By Lynda Gratton Published in the Harvard Business Review: January 2011 * Lynda Gratton investigates the Future of Work By Lynda Gratton Published in the Business Strategy Review: Autumn 2010 * Eight Ways to Build Collaborative Teams By Lynda Gratton & Tammy Erickson Published in the Harvard Business Review: November 2007 * Bridging Faultlines in Diverse Teams By Lynda Gratton, Andreas Voigt and Tammy Erickson Published in MIT Sloan Management Review: Summer 2007 * Truss, Catherine, and Lynda Gratton. "Strategic human resource management: A conceptual approach." International Journal of Human Resource Management 5.3 (1994): 663–686. * Truss, C., Gratton, L., Hope‐Hailey, V., McGovern, P., & Stiles, P. (1997). Soft and hard models of human resource management: a reappraisal. Journal of Management Studies, 34(1), 53–73. * McGovern, P., Gratton, L., Hope‐Hailey, V., Stiles, P., & Truss, C. (1997). Human resource management on the line?. Human Resource Management Journal, 7(4), 12–29. * Gratton, L., Hope‐Hailey, V., Stiles, P., & Truss, C. (1999). Linking individual performance to business strategy: The people process model. Human Resource Management, 38(1), 17–31. * Ghoshal, Sumantra, and Lynda Gratton. "Integrating the enterprise." Sumantra Ghoshal On Management: A Force For Good (2005): 313.


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External links


Lynda Gratton faculty profile at London Business SchoolLynda Gratton personal websiteFuture of Work blogInterview to Lynda Gratton on RAI EconomiaLynda Gratton on BBC Radio 4RSA SpeechHSM Advisory
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