New Giants Rising: How Leaders Can Help People and Companies Grow During the Followership Crisis

ISBN-13: 9781138626492 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 146 str.

Paul D. Fisher

Opis

New Giants Rising will take a simple, sociology-driven approach to explaining how human beings function productively in a specialist-led environment. It will use the same hypothesis as Beyond the Days of the Giants (2013), but instead of a focusing on a change mission and reducing non-value added costs, it will use the sociological themes of Sharing Purpose, Sharing Quality, and Sharing Language. The call to action is for young leaders to begin leading their profession successfully in a modern value creation environment. This cooperative, simpler and more inclusive approach to value creation softens the underlying resistance of professional people to continuous improvement (they often view it as not valuing them and their efforts if it is improperly led). It is the foundation for leading modern cooperating specialists in value creation pursuits as opposed to the dying leadership model of competing generalists that the New Giants will be replacing. The book is an extension of Beyond the Days of the Giants in that it expands the audience for the value creation/commitment thesis from managing partners in large accounting firms (probably about 100 people) to all accountants working in the accounting function whether in public or private accounting, a much larger audience. The book will guide a continuous improvement rationale and explain the breakdown of their value creation systems - their succession crisis (Followership Crisis). The leaders' main strategy should establish the new mission of decision support, set up a Lean environment, and then set up a clinical governance system complete with specialist algorithms to facilitate specialist communication, referral, and growth.

O autorze

Paul Fisher provides commentary at The Followership Zone. There he brings context to today’s world by illustrating the causes of the increasing distance between the lives we live and our beliefs -- and the hardening political barriers forming among us because of this growing gap. He does this using the lens of our emerging Followership Agreements – social reorganization that will create the new American rising middle-class. Paul is the author of New Giants Rising: How Leaders Can Help People and Companies Grow During the Followership Crisis. Throughout a decades-long career in the CPA profession, he quietly observed the human toll taken by the long, slow decline of the manufacturing and consumption economy. At the same time, he began to understand the beginnings of the rise of what would replace that economy and the social glue that would form a new cohesive society – our 21st century Melting Pot. Today, we are getting a look at what that people-glue looks like because of Paul’s insightful work aimed at understanding how and why social reorganization happens to us – and what people, organizations and society can do to move much more quickly to the better future we all deserve. Paul has created The Followership Zone in downtown Chicago where he sleeps, eats, writes, thinks and walks the streets – "skating to where the puck is going."