The Organization of the Future - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787903035 ISBN 13: 9780787903039

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1996

Synopsis

Join the best minds on business as they envision the future
The Drucker Foundation
This much anticipated second title in the Drucker Foundation Future Series imagines tomorrow's organization.
Bringing together such heavy hitters as James Champy, C.K. Prahalad, Charles Handy, Lewis Platt (CEO of Hewlett Packard), and Jay Galbraith, this second volume in the Drucker Foundation Future Series is poised to be the business book of the year.
In these 40 new, never-before-published essays, best-selling authors, top-notch consultants, Fortune 500 CEO?s, and revered management scholars expound on the challenges we face in building the organization of tomorrow. Fresh perspectives and challenging observations will enlighten business people from all industries on how to keep their organizations healthy and competitive well into the 21st century.
Supported by two giants--Peter Drucker opens the book, and Charles Handy closes it--the authors within provide their own perspectives on tomorrow, in thoughtful, to-the-point chapters. Together they underscore where, when, and how organizations and their leaders must evolve, not only to survive but also to prosper.
The contributors show how to:
* prepare for breakdowns and create the nimble, change-adept company
* navigate generational riptides among employees by meeting their preferences in leadership style
* attract, motivate, and retain the best employees
* achieve a winning culture of high performance and high self-esteem
* support work-life balance and provide flexibility to knowledge workers
Today's and tomorrow's leaders everywhere will find practical advice in these essays to help them reshape their own organizations of the future.

About this title

About the Author

FRANCES HESSELBEIN is chairman of the board of governors of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management and editor-in-chief of Leader to Leader. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in 1998. MARSHALL GOLDSMITH has been rated by the Wall Street Journal as one of the top ten consultants in executive development. He lives in San Diego, California. RICHARD BECKHARD is a former professor at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. Author of six books, he is an organization development consultant living in New York City.

From the Back Cover

This much anticipated second title in the Drucker Foundation Future Series imagines tomorrow's organization.Bringing together such heavy hitters as James Champy, C.K. Prahalad, Charles Handy, Lewis Platt (CEO of Hewlett Packard), and Jay Galbraith, this second volume in the Drucker Foundation Future Series is poised to be the business book of the year.In these 40 new, never-before-published essays, best-selling authors, top-notch consultants, Fortune 500 CEO's, and revered management scholars expound on the challenges we face in building the organization of tomorrow. These fresh perspectives and challenging observations will enlighten business people from all industries on how to keep their organizations healthy and competitive well into the 21st century.

From the Inside Flap

With this book, the Drucker Foundation Future Series adds to the success of its best-selling first volume, The Leader of the Future. This unique compAndium of original essays, written by some of the world's top authors, consultants, and leaders in the field of organization and management, offers a self-led seminar on the organization of the future. The Organization of the Future presents the latest and best thinking of acclaimed visionaries and practitioners who ponder the future of human enterprise everywhere -- in government, business, and community.Supported by two giants -- Peter Drucker opens the book, and Charles Handy closes it -- the authors within provide their own perspectives on tomorrow, in thoughtful, to-the-point chapters. Together they underscore where, when, and how organizations and their leaders must evolve, not only to survive but also to prosper. In The Organization of the Future, the contributors show:
* How to prepare for "breakdowns" and create the nimble, change-adept company
* How to navigate generational riptides among employees by meeting their preferences in leadership style
* How big companies can flourish by "acting small" for customers, and "feeling small" to employees
* How organizations build "know-how" and "know-who" to develop successful teams
* How to attract, motivate, and retain the best employees
* How seven basic policies can help an organization achieve a winning culture of high performance and high self-esteem
* How to apply new concepts of "tempo and timing" to lead a company's intellectual capital into the future
* How organizations need to support work-life balance and provide flexibility to knowledge workers
Today's and tomorrow's leaders everywhere will find practical advice in these essays to help them reshape their own organizations of the future.

Reviews

The 49 contributors to this collection?an eclectic mix of executives, academics, management experts and consultants?offer highly accessible, often conversationally written essays intended as thought-provoking goads to action or change in today's business environment. The emphasis is on creating flexible organizational structures that can respond effectively to global competition, information technology, innovation and customers' changing habits. Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter explores the difficulties of motivating people to work in the downsized, high-pressure corporation. Futurist Joel Barker examines the Mondragon Cooperative, a complex of more than 100 worker-owned enterprises in Spain's Basque Provinces, as a model of entrepreneurship, job creation and worker democracy. James Champy, guru of company reengineering, argues that the larger the scale of a program for change, the more likely it is to succeed. Avoiding platitudes, these wide-ranging essays provide a wealth of innovative thinking on leadership and management strategy. Hesselbein is president of the Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management; Goldsmith runs a San Diego corporate consulting firm; organizational consultant Beckhard is a former management professor at MIT.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

The Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management was founded in 1990 to provide assistance to the "social sector." Hesselbein is the foundation's president and a former CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA. Last year Hesselbein edited the inaugural book in the Drucker Foundation Future series, The Leader of the Future. This second book analyzes the internal and external challenges facing organizations today and in the future. In original material written for this collection, 49 managerial experts, including Michael Hammer, James Champy, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Chris Argyris, and Philip Kotler, offer their views on how facing those challenges might change the role and the structure of "the organization." Peter Drucker and Charles Handy, respectively, provide the introduction and the "last word." Such an assemblage makes this book a rarity and a "must" addition to library collections. David Rouse

In this second in a series sponsored by the Drucker Foundation (The Leader of the Future, Jossey-Bass, 1996), 48 distinguished managers, academics, and writers have contributed highly readable articles on modernizing organizational structures and hierarchies. A unifying theme is that the way managers have divided up work and assigned tasks and resources in organizations must be examined through the lens of customer satisfaction and employee empowerment. Of the many excellent contributions, some that stand out include Joel A. Barker's description of the Mondragon Cooperative in Spain as an example of workplace democracy; Rosabeth Moss Kanter's exhortation to managers to place employees at the heart of any organization design; and Jeffery Pfeffer's review of how America's managers organized in the past. The somewhat academic tone should not prevent the book from being read by those at the helm of today's organizations. Strongly recommended.?Andrea C. Dragon, Coll. of St. Elizabeth, Convent Station, N.J.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787903035
• ISBN 13: 9780787903039
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 399
• Editor: Frances Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith, Richard Beckhard