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The Leader's Guide to Radical Management : Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century.
Title:
The Leader's Guide to Radical Management : Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century.
Author:
Denning, Stephen.
ISBN:
9780470651353
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (339 pages)
Contents:
The Leader's Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- THE MARKETPLACE HAS CHANGED -- THE WORKPLACE HAS ALSO CHANGED -- THE SYSTEM IS THE PROBLEM -- THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES OF RADICAL MANAGEMENT -- PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES -- WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR -- CHAPTER 1: MANAGEMENT TODAY -- THE ABSTRACT WRITER -- THE AUDITOR -- THE SOFTWARE DEVELOPER -- THE BANKER -- THE CONSULTANT -- THE PARADOX OF MANAGERIAL SUCCESS -- CHAPTER 2: A BRIEF HISTORY OF MANAGEMENT -- WHY TRADITIONAL MANAGEMENT IS STRUGGLING -- HOW THE WORKPLACE HAS EVOLVED -- THE SITUATION REACHES A CRISIS POINT -- A NEW START -- CHAPTER 3: WHAT RADICAL MANAGEMENT MEANS -- SEVEN BASIC PRINCIPLES OF CONTINUOUS INNOVATION -- AN INTEGRATED SET OF MEASURES -- THE IDEA IN ACTION: EASEL CORPORATION -- WHERE IS IT HAPPENING? -- HOW WILL IT HAPPEN MORE WIDELY? -- PART 1: THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES OF CONTINUOUS INNOVATION -- CHAPTER 4: PRINCIPLE #1: DELIGHTING CLIENTS -- THE MEANING OF WORK -- THE NEW LOCALISM -- THE ORGANIZATION'S PRIMARY GOAL: THINGS VERSUS PEOPLE -- THE CASE OF THE PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANIZATION -- DEVELOPMENT VERSUS PRODUCTION -- DO WE HAVE THE RIGHT GOAL? -- WHO DECIDES? -- MEASURING CLIENT DELIGHT -- THE ADDICTION TO BAD PROFITS -- THE DESIGN OF THE INSTRUMENT -- WHY ARE WE NOT BEING DELIGHTED? -- PRACTICES FOR DELIGHTING CLIENTS -- CHAPTER 5: PRINCIPLE #2: SELF-ORGANIZING TEAMS -- THE CASE OF HENRY FITZEMPRESS -- WHY SELF-ORGANIZING GROUPS WORK -- THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SELF-ORGANIZING TEAMS -- THE BENEFITS OF TEAMS -- WHY TEAMS KEEP BEING REDISCOVERED -- PRACTICES FOR CREATING SELF-ORGANIZING TEAMS -- CHAPTER 6: PRINCIPLE #3: CLIENT-DRIVEN ITERATIONS -- ITERATIONS AT TOYOTA -- ITERATIONS IN BUILDING HOUSES -- MEANING IN WORK AND MEANING AT WORK -- THE USE OF ITERATIVE WORK PATTERNS.

BUSTING THE IRON TRIANGLE OF MANAGEMENT -- IMPLICATIONS FOR WORK IN GENERAL -- PRACTICES FOR CLIENT-DRIVEN ITERATIONS -- CHAPTER 7: PRINCIPLE #4: DELIVERING VALUE TO CLIENTS IN EACH ITERATION -- UNDERSTANDING PHANTOM WORK JAMS -- IDENTIFYING AND REMOVING PHANTOM WORK JAMS -- THE MANAGEMENT MIND-SET PROBLEM -- TACTICS FOR INTRODUCING RADICAL MANAGEMENT -- PRACTICES FOR DELIVERING VALUE TO CLIENTS -- CHAPTER 8: PRINCIPLE #5: RADICAL TRANSPARENCY -- THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN TRUTH AND POWER -- THE BLUE PILL VERSUS THE RED PILL -- THE PARALLEL TO SCIENCE -- THE SCOPE OF RADICAL TRANSPARENCY -- PRACTICES FOR ESTABLISHING RADICAL TRANSPARENCY -- CHAPTER 9: PRINCIPLE #6: CONTINUOUS SELF-IMPROVEMENT -- THE EXPERIENCE OF CONTINUOUS SELF-IMPROVEMENT -- THE CONCEPT OF CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT -- THE TOYOTA APPROACH AT FREMONT -- THE IMPACT OF THE TOYOTA APPROACH -- UNDERSTANDING WHAT TOYOTA DOES -- THE MEANING OF LEAN -- UNINTENDED ACCELERATION -- THE SAYLOR CASE -- A CRISIS OR AN OPPORTUNITY? -- THREE FACTS -- FOUR LESSONS FOR CONTINUOUS SELF-IMPROVEMENT -- PRACTICES FOR CONTINUOUS SELF-IMPROVEMENT -- CHAPTER 10: PRINCIPLE #7: INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION -- THREE DIFFERENT WORLDS -- THE COMMUNICATION CHALLENGE FOR MANAGERS -- THE POWER OF NARRATIVE -- THE CONCEPT OF CONVERSATION -- PUTTING THE BOUNDARIES IN THE RIGHT PLACE -- PRACTICES FOR INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION -- PART 2: IMPLEMENTATION -- A RIVER OF CASCADING CONVERSATIONS -- MY INITIATION INTO RADICAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT -- SOME PRACTICES OF RADICAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT -- WHAT WILL BE YOUR STORY? -- PRACTICES TO SUPPORT IMPLEMENTATION OF RADICAL MANAGEMENT -- EPILOGUE -- SIMPLE TO UNDERSTAND, DIFFICULT TO IMPLEMENT -- THE SPIRIT OF RADICAL MANAGEMENT -- MAKING FRIENDS WITH SURPRISE -- MEANING IN WORK AND AT WORK IS PART OF BEING HUMAN -- RADICAL MANAGEMENT IS PART OF A LARGER STORY.

APPENDIX: SUMMARY OF RADICAL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- INDEX.
Abstract:
A radical new management model for twenty-first century leaders Organizations today face a crisis. The crisis is of long standing and its signs are widespread. Most proposals for improving management address one element of the crisis at the expense of the others. The principles described by award-winning author Stephen Denning simultaneously inspire high productivity, continuous innovation, deep job satisfaction and client delight. Denning puts forward a fundamentally different approach to management, with seven inter-locking principles of continuous innovation: focusing the entire organization on delighting clients; working in self-organizing teams; operating in client-driven iterations; delivering value to clients with each iteration; fostering radical transparency; nurturing continuous self-improvement and communicating interactively. In sum, the principles comprise a new mental model of management. Author outlines the basic seven principles of continuous innovation The book describes more than seventy supporting practices Denning offers a rethinking of management from first principles This book is written by the author of The Secret Language of Leadership-a Financial Times Selection in Best Books of 2007.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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