Designing Your Organization: Using the STAR Model to Solve 5 Critical Design Challenges
“Jay Galbraith and Amy Kates provide the compass, charts, essential tools and supplies for the journey to organization effectiveness in dynamic times.Designing Your Organization, brought forth at a time of major challenges to global business and national priorities, brings contemporary organization decisions into focus and provides clear advice to achieve business performance today and tomorrow.”--John D. Hofmeister, president and U.S. country chair, Shell Oil Company “Should be used by every leader seeking to give their organization a competitive advantage. Galbraith offers a practical framework to align a corporation’s organizational structure with its business strategy.”--Thomas J. Falk, chairman and CEO, Kimberly-Clark Corporation “Starting several decades ago, Jay Galbraith wrote a series of books that essentially defined the field of modern organization design. Now, with deceptive simplicity, compelling logic, and immense practicality, he and Amy Kates have summarized in a single place what every manager needs to know about this vitally important subject.”--Thomas W. Malone, Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management; director, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Sloan School of Management; and author,The Future of Work