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A critical treatise which predicts life and business in the 1990s, this volume argues that in order to profit more from business in the late 20th century readers must overturn traditional ideas of education, career and management. It also conveys a vision of new discoveries and freedoms. Charles Handy also wrote "Gods of Management", "Taking Stock", "The Future of Work" and "Understanding Organisations".

In 1957, Lester Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize for creating the United Nations Emergency Force during the Suez crisis. The award launched Canada's enthusiasm and reputation for peacekeeping. Pearson's Peacekeepers explores the reality behind the rhetoric by offering a detailed account of the UNEF's decade-long effort to keep peace along the Egyptian-Israeli border. While the operation was a tremendous achievement, the UNEF also encountered formidable challenges and problems. This nuanced acco...

Midsized companies are often overlooked by Wall Street and mainstream media outlets, though they are an integral part of national economics. Thus it's important for national economic success to have a thriving midsized company sector. But that is not easy to do, largely because the factors that throttle growth of midsized companies can be quite different than those of their smaller and larger business brethren. Some of these factors are well known, but others can creep up on management teams and...

Moving beyond the process of change Why is change so hard? Because in order to make any transformation successful, you must change more than just the structure and operations of an organization--you need to change people's behavior. And that is never easy. The Heart of Change is your guide to helping people think and feel differently in order to meet your shared goals. According to bestselling author and renowned leadership expert John Kotter and coauthor Dan Cohen, this focus on connecting wi...

Change is the buzzword for today's business leaders. But unless prepared, massive changes in the marketplace can erode a company. This volume introduces a way to ride the first curve - a company's traditional business carried out in a familiar corporate climate - to the all-important second curve of the future: new consumers, new markets and new technologies, combined to bring about sweeping, irrevocable alterations in the way every industry functions. But the art is to know whether or not what...

Learn how to manage change while gaining acceptance and commitment from employees. This highly-praised book combines theory and practical application in such areas as incentive plans, personnel policies, production systems, job designs and organizational goals.

Business model innovation is the key to unlocking transformational growth--but few executives know how to apply it to their businesses. In Seizing the White Space, Mark Johnson gives them the playbook. Leaving the rhetoric to others, Johnson lays out an eminently practical framework that identifies the four fundamental building blocks that make business models work. In a series of in-depth case studies, he goes on to vividly illustrate how companies are using innovative business models to seize...

Sets out to provide a practical overview of how to achieve effective organizations. The book offers guidance and techniques for planning, implementing and reviewing major organizational changes and suggests how people and organizations can cope with the pressures involved.

* Offers access to www.technologybestpractices.com web site containing sample planning templates, contingency plans, policies, annual inventory worksheet, and Help Desk.* Includes strategic technology planning, and managing and training techniques* Shows how to apply technology tools to improve business.

This guide explains how to combine the forces of information technology, culture and strategies, to create an enterprise which constantly evolves, adapts to fast-changing demands, and continually learns at all levels. The book also: explains how to integrated the three critical aspects of an organization - culture, strategy and technology - into an "intimate partnership; and presents the author's approach - "enterprise engineering" - a sophisticated provess for creating a unique "family" of chan...

The context and environment of public services is becoming increasingly complex and the management of change and innovation is now a core task for the successful public manager. This text aims to provide its readers with the skills necessary to understand, manage and sustain change and innovation in public service organizations. Key features include: the use of figures, tables and boxes to highlight ideas and concepts of central importancea dedicated case study to serve as a focus for discussion...

Many CEOs who have restructured their companies have been disappointed with the results, according to "Fortune" Magazine. This book is about the 22 percent of companies that do successfully create and manage strategic change. It also raises the questions regarding the resistance or obstacles encountered, and what successful organizations do to overcome such obstacles and resistance. The behaviour of CEOs and their top management teams are also investigated, resolving what it takes to really fini...

Conscious is a deeply human approach to personal change Our world is changing faster than our ability to adapt. Ambushed by speed, complexity, and uncertainty, many of us are unprepared for this acceleration. We act on autopilot as new challenges confront us. We are too reactive to problems and miss out on opportunities. We get hijacked by conflicting values and polarizing relationships. We face uncertainty with fear and mistrust. Stress and burnout are pervasive as many of us do not perform up...