[Re]Create the Organization You Really Want!: Leadership and Organization Design for Sustainable Excellence. - Softcover

Latham, John R

Softcover

ISBN 10: 099814911X ISBN 13: 9780998149110

Publisher: Organization Design Studio, Ltd., 2016

Synopsis

Become the Architect of Your Ideal Organization! Are you spending your most of your time putting out “fires” and treating symptoms that reignite again and again? Are you frustrated trying to meet the demands of multiple stakeholders - customers, employees, investors, etc.?

What if you could develop your own custom leadership system and collaborative leadership style to leverage the forces of change to transform your organization’s systems and culture? What if you could increase the odds of successful strategy deployment by using a flexible design framework to [re]design your organization systems and processes? What if you could create ever-improving value for multiple stakeholders including customers, workforce, investors, suppliers and partners, society, and the natural environment?

Here is The Blueprint! This book combines over 25 years of experience with research that resulted in two award-winning, peer-reviewed frameworks. The Leadership and Design Frameworks are integrated into a 14-step Blueprint for leading the journey to sustainable excellence. These steps are covered in the 14 chapters from leveraging the forces for change to the nine components of the leadership system to a collaborative leadership style and culture of service.

Learn how to:

1. Identify and leverage the Forces for Change
2. Apply the nine key components of an effective Leadership System
3. Develop your own Collaborative Leadership Style
4. Develop a Culture of Service
5. Identify your own Individual Characteristics that support your leadership approach
6. Leverage the Facilitators of Change to lead a successful [re]design and transformation and... Create Sustainable Value for Multiple Stakeholders!

Whether you are transforming an enterprise organization or just redesigning and rebuilding a part of the organization this book will help you get started on a solid foundation!

About this title

From the Back Cover

The path to sustainable excellence is challenging and often unpredictable, this book provides a "blueprint" to help you prepare and lead the journey with confidence. The flexible frameworks help you develop a solid foundation and plan for the organization you really want. Key components covered include the forces and facilitators of change, the leadership system, a collaborative leadership style, individual leader characteristics, and a culture of service. This blueprint is based on over 25 years of experience and research with award-winning organizations and CEOs. While this book presents the 14 blueprint components in a sequence, you can enter and exit at any point depending on your situation.

About the Author

Dr. John Latham helps leaders design and build organizations that create sustainable value for multiple stakeholders - customers, employees, suppliers and partners, investors, society, and the natural environment. During the last 35+ years, he has enjoyed a wide variety of experiences working in and with commercial, non-profit, and government organizations from Asia to Europe. His experiences have ranged from his first adult job with the U.S. Air Force to Vice President for a $1.3 billion in vitro diagnostics manufacturer with operations in 40 countries to an international consultant on leadership and design for sustainable excellence.

Edition details

• Publisher: Organization Design Studio, Ltd.
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 099814911X
• ISBN 13: 9780998149110
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 352