[Re]Create the Organization You Really Want!: Leadership and Organization Design for Sustainable Excellence. - Softcover

Latham, John R

Softcover

ISBN 10: 099814911X ISBN 13: 9780998149110

Publisher: Organization Design Studio, Ltd., 2016

Synopsis

Become the Architect of Your Ideal Organization! Are you constantly fighting "fires" only to have them reignite again and again? Are you frustrated trying to meet the demands of multiple stakeholders - customers, employees, investors, etc.? What if you could develop your own custom leadership system and collaborative leadership style to leverage the forces of change to transform your organization's systems and culture? What if you could increase the odds of successful strategy deployment by using a flexible design framework to [re]design your organization systems and processes? What if you could create ever-improving value for multiple stakeholders, including customers, workforce, investors, suppliers and partners, society, and the natural environment? This book combines over 25 years of experience with research that resulted in two award-winning, peer-reviewed frameworks for leadership and design. These frameworks form a Blueprint for leading the journey to sustainable excellence. These steps are covered in the 14 chapters, from leveraging the forces for change to the nine components of the leadership system to a collaborative leadership style and culture of service.

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https://drjohnlatham.studio/category/recreate-application-labs/

Learn how to:

• Identify and leverage the Forces for Change
• Apply the nine key components of an effective Leadership System
• Develop your own Collaborative Leadership Style
• Develop a Culture of Service
• Identify your own Individual Characteristics that support your leadership approach
• Leverage the Facilitators of Change to lead a successful [re]design and transformation and... Create Sustainable Value for Multiple Stakeholders!
• Whether you are transforming an enterprise organization or just redesigning and rebuilding a part of the organization, this book will help you get started on a solid foundation!

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About the Author

Dr. John Latham is an organization architect with over 35 years of experience working in and with commercial, non-profit, and government organizations around the world. He has enjoyed a diverse professional life from his first adult job with the U.S. Air Force to Vice President of Corporate Quality and Business Excellence for a $1.3 billion in vitro diagnostics manufacturer with operations in 40 countries to an international consultant on leadership and design for sustainable excellence. John is the founder of the Organization Design Studio™ a digital media, education, and design firm focused on helping leaders, entrepreneurs, and the consultants who help them, create the organizations they really want. His firm focuses on innovative ways to design organizations and systems that create value for multiple stakeholders including investors, customers, employees, suppliers and partners, society, and the natural environment. John has designed a wide variety of organization systems and processes from leadership and strategic management systems to production systems to measurement and analysis systems. He has worked with a variety of organizations including several Baldrige Award recipients across several industries: commercial, non-profit, healthcare, education, and start-ups. Some of his clients have included Boeing, Kawasaki, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), The Ritz-Carlton, British Airways, Motorola, U. S. Department of Energy, Lockheed Martin, U. S. Defense Depot San Joaquin, U.S. Technology Resources, Poudre Valley Health System, Long Beach Unified School District, VA Cooperative Studies, Pro-Tec Coating Company, Monfort College of Business, and Virtjoule, Inc. He has published scientific and technical papers on leading transformation and the design of organizations and systems in several journals including INNOVATION and Quality Management Journal. He is a two-time recipient of the Gryna Award from the American Society for Quality for publishing the paper that made the largest contribution to the extension of understanding and knowledge of philosophy, principles, or methods of quality management during the previous year (2013 and 2014). John served as a judge/examiner for several, organization excellence award programs. He served as a judge for the Colorado Performance Excellence Award, the Robert W. Carey VA Healthcare Award, and the Army Communities of Excellence Award.

Edition details

• Publisher: Organization Design Studio, Ltd.
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 099814911X
• ISBN 13: 9780998149110
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352