The Leader's Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century

ISBN-13: 9780470548684 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 336 str.

Stephen Denning

Opis

A radical new management model for twenty-first century leaders Organizations today face a crisis. The crisis is of long standing and its signs are widespread. Most proposals for improving management address one element of the crisis at the expense of the others. The principles described by award-winning author Stephen Denning simultaneously inspire high productivity, continuous innovation, deep job satisfaction and client delight. Denning puts forward a fundamentally different approach to management, with seven inter-locking principles of continuous innovation: focusing the entire organization on delighting clients; working in self-organizing teams; operating in client-driven iterations; delivering value to clients with each iteration; fostering radical transparency; nurturing continuous self-improvement and communicating interactively. In sum, the principles comprise a new mental model of management.

• Author outlines the basic seven principles of continuous innovation
• The book describes more than seventy supporting practices
• Denning offers a rethinking of management from first principles

This book is written by the author of The Secret Language of Leadership--a Financial Times Selection in Best Books of 2007.

Recenzje

Denning puts forward a fundamentally different approach to management (Publicnet.co.uk, November 2010).

Spis treści

Preface.

Introduction.

1 Management Today.

2 A Brief History of Management.

3 What Radical Management Means.

Part One: The Seven Principles Continuous Innovation.

4 Principle #1: Delighting Clients.

5 Principle #2: Self–Organizing Teams.

6 Principle #3: Client–Driven Iterations.

7 Principle #4: Delivering Value to Clients in Each Iteration.

8 Principle #5: Radical Transparency.

9 Principle #6: Continuous Self–Improvement.

10 Principle #7: Interactive Communication.

Part Two: Implementation.

11 A River of Cascading Conversations.

12 Epilogue.

Appendix: Summary of Radical Management Practices

Notes

Acknowledgments.

About the Author.

Index.

O autorze

Stephen Denning is a leading writer who consults with organizations in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Australia on leadership, management, innovation, and business narrative. In 2009, he was a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University, U.K. He is the author of The Secret Language of Leadership a Financial Times selection in Best Books of 2007, and a 800–CEO–READ selection as the best book on leadership in 2007.

Blurb

Can established organizations learn how to innovate?

The Leader′s Guide to Radical Management shows how innovation can become an organization–wide capability, a part of an entire firm′s DNA.

The need is urgent. The economy–wide rate of return on assets is one quarter of 1965 levels. Workers are disgruntled. Customers are frustrated. Brands are unraveling. Executive turnover is accelerating. Innovation is faltering. These issues call for a radically different kind of management.

Here you will find the definitive guide to pulling apart the black box of traditional management and putting the pieces together in a new way. It means a wholly different way of thinking, speaking, and acting at work. It leads to workplaces that are more productive and more fun. These workplaces feel different.

Most management improvements address one facet of the organization at the expense of others. Implementing radical management leads simultaneously to high productivity, continuous innovation, deep job satisfaction, and client delight.

Praise for The Leader′s Guide to Radical Management

"This masterful book is a delight to read articulate, provocative, and illuminating. Success is about surpassing expectations, and Denning does so here. This isn′t merely radical, it′s revolutionary!"
Peter Guber, CEO, Mandalay Entertainment Group

"This is a wonderful book. It′s like having an extended conversation with Steve Denning, who is one of today′s most acute and creative critics of traditional management thinking. You would ignore the ideas in this witty, candid, and erudite book at your own peril. Denning shows how to reinvent management based on a more accurate and effective understanding of how humans work best together. This book makes a great text for any extended discussion about how we should be doing things."
Laurence Prusak, author, Working Knowledge and What′s the Big Idea?