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Everett, Ken.
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658.044 22
Publication Date
2011
Summary
Ken Everett proposes the network as the organization of the future, and he wrote this book, with the help of five colleagues, to help the architects of such future organizations. He started a network of necessity - limited financial resources - but then encountered surprising benefits. He discovered networked organizations to be resilient, innovative, and leader-full and that these characteristics arise out of the design. This potential, he says, applies equally to networks of independent associates as it does to traditional organizations willing to adopt a new style of leadership - a style closer to "hosting" than "commanding." This is a practice-based book: Its developmental model was earned through experience. The model lays out three phases: from connections to communities to coalitions, or from "doing fine" to "getting better" to "getting better at getting better." Ken Everett illustrates these claims with real-life examples. He describes how a family company with only 3 employees grew to be represented in 30 countries via 300 colleagues. The potential of the networked organization is new, and that's what this book is about.
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Murphy, James D. (James Daniel), 1964-
Call Number
658.1 MUR
Publication Date
2016
Summary
Learn the simple techniques the air force has honed for 60 years to get your work done faster and more successfully, with more precision, just like some of the world's most successful companies have done to dramatically improve their businesses. How does a fighter pilot keep it together with a heat-seeking missile close by? The same way the U.S. Air Force reduced its training accidents from 1,214 a year to just 9. The same way the New York Giants finally cracked the Super Bowl. The same way Pepsi increased market share. They used Flex. So can you...Like all effective things, Flex is simple on the surface. Its heart is the Flex engine: Plan-brief-execute-debrief. These four steps have what it takes to bring teams and individuals to action. They deal with complexity, drive action, tighten communication, beat task overload, and support an honest and open culture for planning, action and learning...You'll see how Flex is used in some of our most successful companies and teams. You'll feel what it's like to fly a fighter jet, relying on Flex for your life. You'll know that you can rely on Flex when it's just your career or aspirations at stake. Fighter pilots and business leaders have been doing just that for decades.
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by
Weinzetl, Mitchell P.
Call Number
658.4092 23
Publication Date
2010
Summary
There are many misconceptions about how police agencies and other public sector organizations operate. Policing is a business, and the business of policing is subjected to the same universal rules of business and leadership whether you are in police work or in industry. Leadership is leadership and management is management and the principles are the same. This book is about being an effective leader and about change- personal change, intellectual change, process change, organizational change, and personal growth and development. Part One focuses on communication and leadership actions and what.
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Zeleny, Milan, 1942-
Call Number
658.4038 22
Publication Date
2005
Summary
Human Systems Management is an important work that integrates knowledge, management and systems into a unified world of thinking and action in business, decision-making and economics. It presents a modern synthesis of the fields of knowledge management, systems science and human organization. A biological rather than mechanistic perspective pervades the text. New and original ideas and approaches are presented with the simplicity and clarity typical of the well-known author.
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