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Start Me Up And Keep Me Growing - Management Learnings From The Rolling Stones

Start Me Up and Keep Me Growing - Management Learnings from the Rolling Stones" is a short, fun and thoughtful book published by @Anthem Press that looks at the incredible success of the world's greatest rock band from a professional services firm point of view. The overarching question is: How did the Stones get it right over sixty years - taking tough decisions about hiring and firing, investing and spending, disrupting and adjusting, resuscitating and surviving. Creating not only financial wealth, working opportunities for thousands, but also an absolutely remarkable unrivalled musical legacy. And - last but not least - working together for six decades despite strong interpersonal tensions. Professional firms operating in more classic industries face issues that are fundamentally similar and to a certain extent transposable. Looking at the Rolling Stones' success story also allows to reflect on one's own firm in terms of management and governance. Teachers in business and management schools, coaches and talent managers can use this book as a working tool to develop its many micronarratives.