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Title: The Drucker Foundation : The Organization of the Future by Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith, Richard Beckhard ISBN: 0-7879-0303-5 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 06 December, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding views for today and tomorrow.
Comment: 'The Organization of the Future' is an outstanding integration of much of the current thinking of leadership, organization, strategy, change, and innovation. Frances Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith, and Richard Beckhard (editors) have gathered together in this collection remarkable 49 thought thinkers.
Charles Handy suggests in his chapter that "Margaret Wheatley, in 'Leadership and the New Science,' has written of the danger of believing in Newtonian organization in a quantum age. Newton wasn't wrong. He just wasn't right enough to cope with the dilemmas of science now. Similarly, the old way of looking at organizations wasn't wrong; it just does not capture the real essence of what it means to organize today." On the other hand, Peter F.Drucker notes in his introduction, "...now a totaly different approach is emerging, not replacing the older approaches but being superimposed on them: it says that the purpose of organizations is to get results 'outside,' that is, to achieve performance in the market. The organization is, however, more than a machine...It is more than economic, defined by results in the marketplace. The organization is, above all, 'social.' It is people. Its purpose must therefore be to make the strengths of people effective and their weaknesses irrelevant."
In this context, the editors divide this book into six parts. They write in their preface, "throughout the chapters in this book, the need for organizations is unquestioned. The authors provide a variety of forms and operating plans for organizations today and tomorrow; at the same time, each recognizes the indispensable role of organizations to human accomplishment and achievement."
Highly recommended.
Rating: 4
Summary: Insightful!
Comment: Editors Frances Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith and Richard Beckhard present a series of short essays by 39 authors describing the structure of tomorrow's organizations. The essays, which are introduced by Peter Drucker, are organized into six main themes: shaping future organizations, new models for working and organizing, organizing for strategic advantage, working and organizing in a wired world, leading people in future organizations and understanding and improving organizational health. Given this approach and more than three dozen authors, some repetition is inevitable, so we [...] wonder if readers will prefer to dip in and choose articles that appeal to them the most. Generally, the book explicates broad trends in structural thinking, almost like a survey of organizational forecasting by top philosophers, authors and leaders in the field. This is sure to intrigue the executives charged with steering large organizations to and through this complex future.
Rating: 5
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Comment: I am using this book for courses in a degree in leadership. This book is a definite plus! It is a compolation of 28 essays from different scholars and executives and is must read for MBA students and business leaders alike.
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Title: The Drucker Foundation: EraThe Leader of the Future : New Visions, Strategies and Practices for the Next by Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith, Richard Beckhard ISBN: 0787909351 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 05 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Maverick:Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Work Place by Ricardo Semler ISBN: 0446670553 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Beyond Certainty: The Changing Worlds of Organizations by Charles Handy ISBN: 0875847633 Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Classics of Organization Theory by Jay M. Shafritz, J. Steven Ott ISBN: 0155068695 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Pub. Date: 05 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $67.95 |
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Title: Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay by Charles Perrow ISBN: 0075547996 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 01 January, 1986 List Price(USD): $53.60 |
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