The Drucker Foundation: The Organization of the Future (The Drucker Foundation future)

The Drucker Foundation: The Organization of the Future (The Drucker Foundation future)

by Marshall Goldsmith (Editor), Frances Hesselbein (Editor), RichardBeckhard (Editor)

Synopsis

Join the best minds on business as they envision the future The Drucker Foundation This much anticipated second title in the Drucker Foundation Future Series imagines tomorrow's organization. Bringing together such heavy hitters as James Champy, C.K. Prahalad, Charles Handy, Lewis Platt (CEO of Hewlett Packard), and Jay Galbraith, this second volume in the Drucker Foundation Future Series is poised to be the business book of the year. In these 40 new, never-before-published essays, best-selling authors, top-notch consultants, Fortune 500 CEOs, and revered management scholars expound on the challenges we face in building the organization of tomorrow. Fresh perspectives and challenging observations will enlighten business people from all industries on how to keep their organizations healthy and competitive well into the 21st century. Supported by two giants-Peter Drucker opens the book, and Charles Handy closes it-the authors within provide their own perspectives on tomorrow, in thoughtful, to-the-point chapters. Together they underscore where, when, and how organizations and their leaders must evolve, not only to survive but also to prosper. The contributors show how to: prepare for breakdowns and create the nimble, change-adept company navigate generational riptides among employees by meeting their preferences in leadership style attract, motivate, and retain the best employees achieve a winning culture of high performance and high self-esteem support work-life balance and provide flexibility to knowledge workers Today's and tomorrow's leaders everywhere will find practical advice in these essays to help them reshape their own organizations of the future.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 399
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publisher: Jossey Bass
Published: 06 Dec 1996

ISBN 10: 0787903035
ISBN 13: 9780787903039

Media Reviews
It is an anthology of some of the most farsighted business writers around. Reading Organization of the Future is like browsing full a shelf full of best-selling management books. (Across the Board, July/August 1997)
Author Bio
FRANCES HESSELBEIN is chairman of the board of governors of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management and editor--in--chief of Leader to Leader. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in 1998. MARSHALL GOLDSMITH has been rated by the Wall Street Journal as one of the top ten consultants in executive development. He lives in San Diego, California. RICHARD BECKHARD is a former professor at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. Author of six books, he is an organization development consultant living in New York City.