Change-Able Organization: Key Management Practices for Speed and Flexibility

Organization leaders at all levels in today’s fast-paced business world are searching for management skills to sustain consistent performance while they increase their speed and flexibility.

Based on participative control backed by a uniquely integrated and pragmatic system of five practices, Change-ABLE™ Organization has been practiced in large and small computer, consumer goods, government and telecommunications settings like Intel, Etec Systems, Genesco, and Motorola.

This book is the result of those experiences and includes key practices and values, the use of graphics and watercraft analogies to contrast highly adaptive and ineffective organizational cultures, warnings about consequences of becoming Change-ABLE, and an in-depth look at one medium-sized organization’s experience and success with the method.

For those investigating a complete system of management organization and to stop practices such as “Go with the Flow,” Working Alone...Together,” and “Autocratic Control,” Change-ABLE Organization guides the way.

Since 1973, William R. Daniels has helped managers, teams, and organizations develop the skills necessary to manage continuous change by addressing their most immediate and critical business needs. A senior partner and co-founder in 1979 of American Consulting & Training, Inc. (ACT), his mind for theory and his passion for the practical are combined with firsthand experience and empirical research. In addition to his consulting work, Daniels has designed all of ACT's simulations and workshops used by clients worldwide.

Daniel’s clients include Intel, Motorola, University of California, Etec Systems, and Bristol- Myers Squibb. He lives in Mill Valley, California, with his wife and business partner Lila Sparks-Daniels.

A senior consultant with Grinnell Scott & Associates, John G. Mathers has worked with executives at all levels to facilitate decision-making on issues of strategy, organization, marketing, and team performance. Throughout, Mathers has supported innovative, practical applications of the concept of “speed with quality” for clients.

Mather’s clients have included: BankAmerica, Plus Systems, PepsiCo, Nikkei Quick, and Levi Strauss & Co.