The Boundaryless Organization: Breaking the Chains of Organizational Structure - Softcover

Ashkenas, Ron; Ulrich, Dave; Jick, Todd; Kerr, Steve

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9780787940003: The Boundaryless Organization: Breaking the Chains of Organizational Structure

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0787940003 ISBN 13: 9780787940003

Publisher: Jossey Bass, 1998

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Discover the specific strategies premier companies are using to position themselves for success in the new knowledge economy. In this best–selling work, a world–class team of management experts shows how leading corporations––General Electric, Morgan Bank, and SmithKline Beecham included––are busting boundaries on all fronts. Each of these companies is producing superior results by encouraging the flow of ideas, resources, and talents in and out of the organization, up and down the hierarchy, and across geographic lines. For any executive looking to build a more flexible, innovative, and competitive organization, The Boundaryless Organization remains the definitive guide.

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Winner of the Executive Leadership Award

"If your organization is ready for transformation, The Boundaryless Organization will provide a simple but provocative framework either for getting started or for accelerating the pace."
from the foreword by Lawrence A. Bossidy, chairman and CEO, Honeywell Corporation

"This is the best book on globalization and the seamless organization that I have read."
David H. Komansky, chairman and CEO, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

"A very important contribution."
from the foreword by C. K. Prahalad, coauthor of Competing for the Future

"Attacks the very core of traditional management structure, with all of its walls, boundaries, and limitations."
Quality Progress

"Outlines how companies can make the change from rigid structures to ones where ideas, resources, and information can flow freely."
HR Strategies & Tactics

"A refreshing guide to innovative ways to do business . . . . Each part includes a questionnaire that readers can use to determine where they stand on a continuum between boundaried and boundaryless status."
Journal of Management Consulting

"Recommended reading."
CIO

"Outlines how companies can make the change from rigid structures to ones where ideas, resources, and information can flow freely."
HR Strategies & Tactics

"Recommended reading."
CIO

From the Back Cover:

To succeed in business today, organizations must learn to color outside the lines. In the words of Jack Welch, much quoted CEO of General Electric, organizations must become "boundaryless." The Boundaryless Organization shows companies how to sweep away artificial obstacles like hierarchy, turf, and geography to achieve outstanding business performance. Examples from Samsung, Morgan Bank, and SmithKline Beecham demonstrate how the flow of ideas, resources, and talents in and out of the organization, up and down the hierarchy, and across geographic boundaries is resulting in stellar success.

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