"David Stroh has produced an elegant and cogent guide to what works. Research with early learners is showing that children are natural systems thinkers. This book will help to resuscitate these intuitive capabilities and strengthen them in the fire of facing our toughest problems."-Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline Concrete guidance on how to incorporate systems thinking in problem solving, decision making, and strategic planning-for everyone! Donors, leaders of nonprofits, and publ...
Competition or Cooperation?
by Jesper Rosenberg Hansen and Christian Botcher Jacobsen
Seven Deadly Sins of Organizational Culture (Internal Audit and IT Audit)
by Linh San Truong
This book is about the primary symptoms present in a dysfunctional culture that could have devastating outcomes for any organization. The book outlines each of the seven sins in each chapter. Each of the first seven chapters (Chapters 1–7) starts with a famous quote related to each of the sins and then immediately recounts stories ripped from the headlines describing well-known corporate failures but with a personal touch from former employees who experienced those stories from inside the compa...
Communities of Practice at the World Bank
Illustrated by the experience of the World Bank, this book explains how knowledge management, traditionally viewed as being about information systems and processes, can play a fundamental corporate role by creating a competitive edge for organizations, increasing team performance, and fostering effective, large-scale organizational change. Rich and powerful stories, told by economic development practitioners and knowledge management specialists throughout the World Bank, describe the strategies,...
Action learning is one of the most prominent individual and organisational development approaches used in all parts of the world, including in over 70 member states of the United Nations. From its early beginnings in the 1970s, it has been adopted in private, public and third-sector organisations and has produced several variations. Used for leadership and management development, to support teamwork and problem-solving, and to encourage creative thinking, it can help to develop and enhance the l...
Industrial transformation is a research and teaching field with a focus on the phenomenon and mechanisms of industrial development and renewal. It concerns changes in economic activities caused by innovation, competition and collaboration, and has a rich heritage of evolutionary economics, institutional economics, industrial dynamics, technology history and innovation studies. It borrows concepts and models from the social sciences (sociology, history, political sciences, business/management, ec...
Capitalism is in crisis and, according to some, on the verge of collapse. Will this dying system give way to a commons-centric society as many scholars and activists predict? Will leadership become an antedated function, no longer needed in the self-organized, collaborative commons? These questions inspired the author of Proleptic Leadership on the Commons: Ushering in a New Global Order to explore the history of the commons movement, the recent systems frameworks that carve out a transform...
Strategy is an essential part of business, but strategizing often gets ignored or left behind. In this exciting new work, Eric J. Bolland introduces strategizing as a key component of strategy development and execution, showing strategizing as a way to aid organizations with their futures. To strategize successfully, businesses need a set of well-developed tools to help them perform specific actions continuously. Starting by tracing the origin and evolution of strategy and strategic planning, th...
A leader's blueprint to building a high-performing organization What distinguishes the most successful organizations? What do the leaders and managers in these top organizations actually do? In this fascinating book, entrepreneur and business consultant Eric Douglas draws on his work with corporations, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations to paint a clear picture of what happens inside high-performing organizations. He reveals a simple but profound equation: Trust Spark = Leadershi...
Organisation Design and Capability Building (HR Toolkits)
by James A Cannon, Rita McGee, and Naomi Stanford
The Organisation Design and Capability Building toolkit is an out-of-the-box solution for HR professionals seeking expert knowledge on how to create and manage an organisation design (OD) and capability building process from start to finish. The toolkit includes checklists and other resources to help build a compelling business case to secure buy-in from stakeholders, develop a roadmap, identify roles and actions that add value to the OD process, assess the organisation, design the organisation,...
Featuring a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Despite decades of research and evidence, there is still extreme scepticism that businesses can combine a more humane style of management with superior shareholder returns, or that busy managers can be guided effectively by both their heads and their hearts. Vlatka Hlupic has spent 20 years investigating this paradox, developing an insightful critique of why such strong evidence has had limited impact and providing an alternative, practical a...
The global economic landscape is 'tilting': countries such as China, India and Brazil are racing forward while established American and European companies struggle to keep up. To survive in this new climate, CEOs need to respond quickly and effectively, and in "Global Tilt", best selling coauthor of "Execution" Ram Charan shows how. His advice includes: unlearn old lessons; get ready for strategic bets; fight the short-term beast; and, change your psychology. In this age of rapid economic change...
A critical area of competitive advantage is the ability of organizations to lead rather than follow changes in the market. This means having the ability to roll out the right changes quickly and reliably in a way that delivers a return on investment. Managing Organizational Change brings together all the different roles and functions within an organization that a leader has to manage effectively to ensure successful and sustainable organizational change. Centred around the Cycle of Change Model,...
Can a magnetic culture elevate you to unparalleled performance? ! And your journey to a magnetic culture starts by recognizing that good culture simply isn’t enough to drive top performance. With uncertainty swirling around every corner in the world today, team members are re-evaluating their workplaces and walking out as they look past hollow promises and perks that are a mere temporary bandage. People are searching for teams with purpose, a compelling vision, and a sense of belonging where the...
Time has become a precious commodity, so business leaders who can save their customers' time more effectively than competitors do will win their loyalty. This book shows how it's done. Business survival requires valuing what customers value--and in our overworked and distraction-rich era, customers value their time above all else. Real-time companies beat their rivals by being faster and more responsive in meeting customer needs. To become a real-time company, as top scholars Jerry Power an...
Gesch�ftsprozessmanagement als Managementmethode ist in aller Munde. Wollen auch Sie Ihre Abl�ufe richtig auf Vordermann bringen und so jede Menge Zeit und Geld sparen? Thilo Knuppertz vom Kompetenzzentrum f�r Gesch�ftsprozessmanagement spannt in diesem Buch den Bogen von einer ersten Analyse Ihrer Prozesse zur Ermittlung von Effizienzchancen bis hin zur Einf�hrung von neuen Prozessen. Doch er zeigt auch, das die Einf�hrung neuer Abl�ufe und die Verteilung der Verantwortlichkeite...