The leader's guide to radical management [[electronic resource] ] : reinventing the workplace for the 21st century / / Stephen Denning

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460457003321
• Autore: Denning Stephen
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: San Francisco, : Jossey-Bass, 2010
• ISBN: 0-470-65136-9; 1-282-81676-4; 9786612816765; 0-470-65102-4; 0-470-65135-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (339 p.)
• Disciplina: 658.4
• Soggetti: Organizational change; Creative ability in business; Management; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 POINTA 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; CHAPTER 5: PRINCIPLE #2: SELF-ORGANIZING TEAMS; CHAPTER 6: PRINCIPLE #3: CLIENT-DRIVEN ITERATIONS; CHAPTER 7: PRINCIPLE #4: DELIVERING VALUE TO CLIENTS IN EACH ITERATION; CHAPTER 8: PRINCIPLE #5: RADICAL TRANSPARENCY; CHAPTER 9: PRINCIPLE #6: CONTINUOUS SELF-IMPROVEMENTCHAPTER 10: PRINCIPLE #7: INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION; PART 2: IMPLEMENTATION; A RIVER OF CASCADING CONVERSATIONS; EPILOGUE; APPENDIX: SUMMARY OF RADICAL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; NOTES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 or