RoadMap How to Understand, Diagnose, and Fix Your Organization

THIS BOOK WAS SUPERSEDED BY "How Organizations SHOULD Work"

People want to do a good job. But much too often, the organizational environment they work in gets in their way. At a minimum, this wastes people's talents and energies, and puts impossible loads on executives. At the worst, it induces people to perform poorly, work at cross purposes, fight with one another, and burn out.

Meanwhile, organizations are facing tough challenges from their competition and a volatile, complex business environment. If everyone in an organization isn't doing everything possible to assure its success, the organization is doomed to mediocrity or even failure.

This book describes a straightforward approach to building healthy organizations -- ones in which everybody's talents are fully engaged and their independent actions are well orchestrated.

It is a handbook for executives who are disappointed with quick fixes, jaded about management fads, and fed up with solving the same problems day after day...for leaders who are tired of fighting alligators and ready to drain the swamp.

N. Dean Meyer -- recognized as one of the foremost authorities on organizational transformation -- has made organizational health his life's work. He has been teaching, lecturing, and consulting since 1968. He founded NDMA Inc. in 1982 to focus exclusively on organizational issues.

Widely published, Meyer is coauthor of the book, The Information Edge, originally published by McGraw-Hill and now in its sixth printing. Meyer is also the author of the new paperback book, Structural Cybernetics: An Overview. His extensive original research and practical experiences are documented in two major studies: Structural Cybernetics, and The Internal Economy, A Market Approach.

Meyer is known for his systematic approaches to difficult leadership issues, and has implemented organizational transformations in dozens of diverse corporate and public-sector organizations throughout North America.