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As David A. Nadler and Michael L. Tushman show, the last remaining source of truly sustainable competitive advantage lies in "organizational capabilities": the unique ways each organization structures its work, builds its cultures, and motivates its people to achieve clearly articulated aspirations and strategic objectives.
A member of the AWL OD Series! This book is about the use of data as a tool for organizational change. It attempts to bring together some of what we know from experience and research and to translate that knowledge into useful insights for those people who are thinking about using data- based methods in organizations.
Business has long struggled with the notion of "human capital," but do companies really know the value of their people? All too frequently, companies lay off thousands of workers to boost share price while, at the same time, their annual reports promise that "people are our greatest asset!" Now, for the first time, human capital experts Brian Friedman, James Hatch, and David M. Walker show how companies can deliver on this promise. They reveal how Arthur Andersen's breakthrough five-stage framework, "Human Capital Appraisal," enables managers to measure, manage, and leverage their companies' investment in people. The authors describe specifically how managers can evaluate the current effecti...
Praise for Building Better Boards "Building Better Boards bridges the gap between talk and action. A must-read for board members, CEOs, governance experts - really for anyone who cares about the future of the corporation." Anne M. Mulcahy, chairman and CEO, Xerox Corporation "Building Better Boards covers all the key issues facing boards in the post-Sarbanes-Oxley era. It provides practical advice based on the authors' wide-ranging experience with major companies that have built successful boards." Marty Lipton, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen Roger W. Raber, president and CEO, National Association of Corporate Directors "This book provides a comprehensive review and effective guide to making any bo...
The inside story of how a group of Xerox executives completely revolutionized the company's internal structure and saved it from the Japanese competition ; by the former CEO of Xerox.
Chicken Coop CEO offers a unique blend of autobiography and an instructor’s manual for succeeding as a leader. Readers will trace the life of Roy Seidler and learn how he was able to overcome extreme poverty and a broken home in his youth to being selected for important formal leadership positions later in life. Because Seidler steadfastly believes that we can all “make our own little corner of the world a better place from having traveled through it,” he shares the lessons he learned along his personal and professional journeys and employs those lessons to develop a manual that will prove invaluable to those wishing to improve the institutions and organizations they lead in their own neck of the woods. The book is a living manifestation of Seidler’s lifelong mantra of “Learn-Grow-Share.” Humble, humorous, practical, and extremely wise, Chicken Coop CEO will, alternately, have readers sharing its stories and taking copious notes.
New Tools for Challengng the Status Quo Immensely readable, this work bolts together the image or theory and the reality of what is required to change the performance of an enterprise. Whether the challenge is renewal or fundamental change, this book delivers real-life depictions that will help all who invest the time. --Richard A. McGinn, president and COO, Lucent Technologies, Inc. Stand on the front lines of innovation with today's top business leaders. Throughout this page-turner, archconsultant David Nadler leverages twenty years of work with many of the world's most acclaimed CEOs to provide a detailed, inside account of how they've led the most difficult and significant change efforts of our times. Case examples include initiatives undertaken at Sun Microsystems, Lucent Technologies, Xerox, Corning, AT&T and Kaiser Permanente. Engaging and inspiring, it offers leaders and managers at every level a new, field-tested repertoire of concepts, tools and techniques for understanding the dynamics of change and managing it effectively.
In today's globalised era, e-commerce, outsourcing and telecommuting have become the new paradigm for organizational functioning. Co-workers, located at different places/countries, are connected with each other through internet. This book is written in the context of these emerging workplace realities and seeks to present a realistic view of people working in organizations. A consistent theme throughout the book is that the effective management of organizations requires an understanding of theory, research and practice. To engage the students in the modern world of organizations, this book incorporates a number of distinctive, time-tested and interesting features such as Corporate Insights, ...
This fifth Missional Church Series volume seeks to bring historical clarity, biblical and theological substance, and practical guidance to church planting. The nine contributors -- many of them experienced church-planting pastors -- offer diverse yet cohesive perspectives on the Spirit's missional church planting in our time. Section One presents three essays which address missional church planting as a theological practice, with particular attention given to the activity of the Holy Spirit within the context of God's Trinitarian life. Section Two grounds church planting initiatives in the generative soil of story. The two essays in this section narrate how specific congregations provide gli...