Foreword by Stephen Covey Draws on firsthand experience at implementing and developing hundreds off-diredirected work teams and horizontal initiatives within such corporate revolutionaries as GE, The Walt Disney Company, ITT, and Litton Industries. Offers a strategic and unique guide for those involved in the frontline action of this revolution. Takes a candid and realistic look at the ongoing challenges and ultimate benefits of reengineering organizations through teams.The Horizontal Revolution documents the radical shift in workplace roles, goals, and souls and presents a step-by-step approach to creating horizontal operations through high-involvement teaming and coaching. It guides readers through the four stages of change: pioneering through reactive and proactive processes, settling-in by rewriting the work contract, tilting the organizational structure toward interdependence, and transforming and exploring new tools for continuous improvement.
Filled with hands-on prescriptions, insights, and proven techniques for redistributing ownership and responsibility, and minimizing us versus them conditions, the book delivers a practical approach to making the workplace the center of learning and leadership.
- ISBN10 078790046X
- ISBN13 9780787900465
- Publish Date 8 November 1994
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 23 September 2006
- Publish Country US
- Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Imprint Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Language English