On-High Performance Organizations: A Leader to Leader Guide: 70 (Frances Hesselbein Leadership Forum) - Softcover

Drucker Foundat, Frances

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0787960691 ISBN 13: 9780787960698

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2002

Synopsis

On High--Performance Organizations features the best thinking from top experts on organizational effectiveness, sustaining growth, and strategy. Written in a concise style that is ideal for the busy executive with little spare time, the book presents a stellar roster of contributors. On High--Performance Organizations is one title in the Leader to Leader Guides, which draw from the most compelling articles that have appeared in Leader to Leader, the Drucker Foundation's award--winning journal.

About this title

About the Author:

Frances Hesselbein is chairman of the board of governors of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management and editor--in--chief of its journal Leader to Leader. She is also the lead editor for the best--selling Drucker Foundation Future Series. Hesselbein served as CEO of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. from 1976 to 1990 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor, in 1998. Rob Johnston is president and CEO of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management. He was executive producer for Leading in a Time of Change, a 2001 video featuring Peter F. Drucker and Peter M. Senge and for the Nonprofit Leader of the Future video teleconference. He is a senior editor for the Leader to Leader journal, and has contributed a chapter to Enterprising Nonprofits (Wiley, 2001).

From the Inside Flap:

On High-Performance Organizations presents the best leadership thinking on creating strategic advantage and passion-driven organizations. Part of the Leader to Leader Guides, which offer a wellspring of rich insight and information from top leadership thinkers, it provides readers with the tools for helping their organizations excel in effectiveness, sustaining growth, and strategy.
Drawn from Leader to Leader the award-winning journal, On High- Performance Organizations brings together Karl Weick, Frances Hesselbein, Scott Adams, Philip Kotler, James O'Toole and other thought leaders to offer practical guidance for those who seek to lead their organizations to high performance. This essential volume offers leaders a roadmap for organizational success by revealing how leaders employ people with a diversity of experience and opinion, support efforts to anticipate and embrace change, build productive work communities, and disperse leadership responsibility.
Each of the four volumes in the Leader to Leader Guides-- On Mission and Leadership, On Leading Change, On High-Performance Organizations, and On Creativity, Innovation, and Renewal-- is organized around an essential topic with a diversity of views presented in clear, short chapters. These essential collections provide leaders with insight and inspiration to take their organizations to new levels of excellence.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0787960691
• ISBN 13: 9780787960698
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 196