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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 CEOs, 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.

Table of Contents:
Peter F. Drucker - Introduction - Toward the New Organization; SHAPING TOMORROW'S ORGANIZATIONS; James A. Champy - Preparing for Organizational Change; Jay A. Conger - How Generational Shifts Will Transform Organizational Life; Michael Hammer - The Soul of the New Organization; Ric Duques, Paul Gaske - The "Big" Organization of the Future; Jeffrey Pfeffer - Will the Organization of the Future Make the Mistakes of the Past; Orit Gadesh, Scott Olivet - Designing for Implementability; Iain Somerville, John Edwin Mroz - New Competencies for a New World; NEW MODELS FOR WORKING AND ORGANIZING; Frances Hesselbein - The Circular Organization; Jay R. Galbraith - The Reconfigurable Organization; Ron Ashkenas - The Organization's New Clothes; Joel A. Barker - The Mondragon Model - A New Pathway for the Twenty-First Century; Doug Miller - The Future Organization - A Chameleon in All Its Glory; Glenn R. Jones - Creating a Leadership Organization with a Learning Mission; ORGANIZING FOR STRATEGIC ADVANTAGE; Rosabeth Moss Kanter - Restoring People to the Heart of the Organization of the Future; Philip Kotler - Competitiveness and Civil Character; C. K. Prahalad - The Work of New Age Managers in the Emerging Competitive Landscape; Martin E. Hanaka, Bill Hawkins - Organizing for Endless Winning; Stephanie Pace Marshall - Creating Sustainable Learning; Dave Ulrich - Organizing Around Capabilities; WORKING AND ORGANIZING IN A WIRED WORLD; Anthony F. Smith, Tim Kelly - Human Capital in the Digital Economy; Edward D. Miller - Shock Waves from the Communications Revolution; Nathaniel Branden - Self-Esteem in the Information Age; Deepak Sethi - The Seven R's of Self-Esteem; Frederick G. Harmon - Future Present; LEADING PEOPLE IN THE ORGANIZATION OF THE FUTURE; James G. Brocksmith Jr. - Passing the Baton - Preparing Tomorrow's Leaders; Marshall Goldsmith - Retaining Your Top Performers; Paul Hersey, Dewey E. Johnson - Situational Leadership in the Multicultural Organization; Pierre J. Everaert - Emotions, Tempo, and Timing in Managing People; John Alexander, Meena S. Wilson - Leading Across Cultures - Five Vital Capabilities; Diana Chapman Walsh - Cultivating Inner Resources for Leadership; Robert H. Rosen - Learning to Lead; NEW DEFINITIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL HEALTH; Lewis E. Platt - Employee Work-Life Balance - The Competitive Advantage; Richard Beckhard - The Healthy Organization - A Profile; R. Roosevelt Thomas Jr. - Diversity and Organizations of the Future; Greg Parston - Producing Social Results; John R. Seffrin - The Voluntary Health Organization - A Profile; A. W. Dahlberg, David W. Connell, Jennifer Landrum - Building a Healthy Company - for the Long Term; Chris Argyris - The Next Challenge; Charles Handy - Unimagined Futures.

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.

Review :
"It is an anthology of some of the most farsighted business writers around." "Reading Organization of the Future is like browsing full a shelf full of best-selling management books." (Across the Board, July/August 1997)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780787903039
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: The Drucker Foundation future
  • Weight: 680 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0787903035
  • Publisher Date: 20 Dec 1996
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 235 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: The Organization of the Future
  • Width: 160 mm


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