Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits (J-B Warren Bennis, #144) (J-B US non-Franchise Leadership, #144)

by Robert C. Townsend and Warren Bennis

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Although it was first published more than thirty-five years ago, Up the Organization continues to top the lists of best business books by groups as diverse as the American Management Association, Strategy + Business (Booz Allen Hamilton), and The Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management. 1-800-CEO-READ ranks Townsend's bestseller first among eighty books that "every manager must read." This commemorative edition offers a new generation the benefit of Robert Townsend's timeless wisdom as well as reflections on his work and life by those who knew and worked with him. This groundbreaking book continues to remind us not to get mired in all those sacred organizational routines that stifle people and strangle both profits and profitability. He shows a way to humanize business and a way to have fun while making it all work better than it ever worked before.
  • ISBN10 1118898826
  • ISBN13 9781118898826
  • Publish Date 21 May 2007 (first published 1 March 1970)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Edition Commemorative ed.
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 208
  • Language English