The Accelerating Organization: Embracing the Human Face of Change - Hardcover

Maira, Arun; Scott-Morgan, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 007057720X ISBN 13: 9780070577206

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 1996

Synopsis

This text provides an implementation-oriented field guide to managing in a changing organizational environment. It discusses how managers in the future must face business challenges, address change and build their business.

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About the Author

Peter Scott-Morgan is the best-selling author of The Unwritten Rules of the Game and is well known as a popular business speaker, consultant and teacher. He is globally recognized as an authority on managing revolutionary transformation in business. With a New Economy lifestyle he lives in the Caribbean in winter and the English Riviera in summer. In his spare time Dr. Scott-Morgan is a partner of the international consultancy Arthur D. Little, Inc., and Professor of Business at Bostons ADL School of Management. Find out more at www.scott-morgan.com.

From the Back Cover

An entirely fresh approach to managing in a changing world It's a fast=moving, cyber-linked, overcommunicated world out there these days. Change seems to happen much more rapidly and with far less predictability. It's no wonder the store shelves are crammed with books for beleaguered managers who are desperately trying to navigate through this torrent of change. This one is different from the rest. Here is a book that shows you how to turn your organization into one that continually meets the challenges of change, in a business world strewn with the survivors of yesterday's fads. The Accelerating Organization features the cutting-edge, experience-tested principles being taught by Arthur D. Little and Innovation Associates. It's not another take on reengineering nor a rewarmed learning organization tome. It's the best of both methods and a whole lot more. Learn how you can: refocus strategic goals and galvanize for never-ending change; Get to know your organization's unwritten rules and use them to gain leverage; Change policies and structures simultaneously, while avoiding performance disruption; Make your people the agents of change, not its victims; Instill a continuous learning mindset aimed at sustaining high performance. Accessible and practical, this whole new approach to managing in an ever-changing world provides you with the knowledge and tools to ensure that your organization is flexible, nimble, and ready to handle whatever might come next. . .be it a minor tremor or a seismic shift.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 007057720X
• ISBN 13: 9780070577206
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 306