Organization 21C: Someday All Organizations Will Lead This Way
Building tomorrow's winning organization: breakthrough ideas, practical solutions.InOrganization 21C: Someday All Organizations Will Lead This Way, leading management thinker Subir Chowdhury brings together 28 of the world's leading management thinkers, covering all four key drivers of organizational success: leadership, process, people, and organizational design. You'll find breakthrough ideas and practical solutions for virtually every management and leadership challenge you face-tactical and strategic.These renowned leaders in business thought are from every continent, from James A. Champy and Gareth Jones to Manfred F. R. Kets De Vries and Richard E. Boyatzis. Among the many topics they illuminate: the unique challenges of global leadership, the new X-engineering approach to process change across organizational boundaries, Total Rewards Management, the "New Boardroom," the changing nature of power and influence, building workable hierarchies and sustainable organizations, and new best practices for leading organizational change.Like its internationally acclaimed predecessor,Management 21C, this book will be an indispensable resource for every organizational leader seeking to meet the new challenges of the 21st century."The real work of organization development is just now starting and Chowdhury's superb anthology is a great place to begin in grasping its depth and breadth."—Peter M. Senge, Founder, Society for Organizational Learning, MITAuthor,The Fifth Discipline"A thought-provoking collection from leading thinkers around the world on a broad sweep of issues confronting the 21st century business organization. Those who want to understand and shape the future of business should read this book."—Laura Tyson, Dean, London Business School"This is an essential book for the leader of the future, written by great thought leaders whose vision of the future challenges and inspires."--Frances Hesselbein, Chairman and Founding President, The Peter F. Drucker Foundation"This book is of the highest importance."—Peter Lorange, President, IMD Switzerland"Subir Chowdhury has assembled a who's who of experts in organization and leadership to summarize their latest thinking for this exceptional volume."  —Christopher A. Bartlett, Professor, Harvard Business School"Organization 21C is the 'next stop' in a series of great works by Subir Chowdhury. His work provides great practical assistance to leaders around the world. Chowdhury has done something that would make Dick Beckhard proud!"—Marshall Goldsmith, Founding Director of the Alliance for Strategic Leadership,listed inForbesas one of the five top executive coachesandThe Wall Street Journalas a "Top 10 executive educator"