Change-Able Organization: Key Management Practices for Speed and Flexibility

by William R. Daniels

Book Overview

The authors describe an integrated and pragmatic system for achieving critical business results based on their 46 collective years of business experience in the trenches. The book describes five key practices and values, uses graphics and analogies to describe highly adaptive and ineffective organizational cultures, warns about consequences of becoming Change-ABLE, and gives an in-depth look at one medium-sized organizations experience and success...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1882939034
• ISBN13: 9781882939039
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: ACT Publishing
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Practical approach to business success

This book is highly readable, and contains all the practices you'll need to make your organization successful and ready to meet its challenges. You'll have enough information here to train your staff and peers on a proven approach that has resulted in Fortune 500 successes for Intel, Motorola and other companies that Daniels and Mather have worked with. Once you've started using these methods, you'll wonder how you survived without them.

Watercraft analogyes to analyze organizations & culture

This excellent book describes organizational cultures in terms of different kinds of watercraft. It covers small entrepreneur, dot com like cultures, professional associations, large corporations and bureaucracies and brings a "map" to diagnose and migrate from one to other safely.