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Elizabeth Jayanti, Ph.D. is an expert on leadership and organizational science and is the Founder and CEO of Shrewd Analytics (http://www.shrewdX.com). Her PhD research received accolades from the European Foundation for Management Development and UCWHRE, and ultimately culminated in this book. The Galileo Moment asks the reader to leave behind industrial-era management practices and step into the present-day knowledge economy. In her consulting work, she has helped clients in Aerospace, Med Tech, and Consumer Goods Manufacturing industries to use scientific and data-driven methods for their people operations, leadership selection, and talent pipeline planning activities, generating potential savings of over $350 million over a 3-year period.
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Elizabeth Jayanti Ph.D. believes that businesses today are still being conducted on premises that have long become irrelevant. In The Galileo Moment, she argues that all new research is based on old models that are no longer true or effective, and therefore are of no use. She observes that the research and models created in the industrial age were based on the work habits of that time. Based on extensive surveys and interviews with employees and chiefs of current businesses, she realized that people do not really work the way these models assume. Therefore, most of the solutions based on these shaky assumptions become irrelevant.
In this 200-page book, the author looks at how things truly work in the real world. Elizabeth Jayanti Ph.D. asks readers to look inside the organization instead of at the market or external forces. For example, in the chapter Doing: Who Is It All For, she shows how the change of focus internally changes the company culture and hence the final outcomes for businesses. The Galileo Moment gives readers a new lens to look at how their businesses work. At the end of each chapter, the author encourages readers to ask themselves some tough questions that help in clarifying the business focus or what they really want. She argues that innovation does not necessarily occur with new information, but can happen just by looking at existing information from a different perspective. Using short case studies, insights from the industry captains, and a synthesis of the way successful businesses work today, The Galileo Moment looks at old management practices in a new light.
