Designing the Purposeful Organization: How to Inspire Business Performance Beyond Boundaries
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (879 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0749472200 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Wilson is to be commended on his brilliant use of reader-friendly devices that include directly relevant mini-case studies, implementation activities, and sets of '10 Questions' that serve as assessments of purpose, vision, engagement, structure, character, results, success, and talent. Provides just about everything that you and your colleagues need to 'inspire business performance beyond boundaries.'"
Hard-hitting management may deliver short-term results but in the longer term, key people burn out or leave, and business performance falls back.Designing the Purposeful Organization explains how to implement a more enlightened and authentic leadership style that aligns people's strengths to the delivery of a compelling future. Organizations are constantly under pressure to deliver growth. Featuring the approach used by innovative businesses like GE, Google and Novartis, this book reveals how to remove the boundaries from an organization's performance.. It draws on a unique framework that helps leaders manage the eight elements essential for high performance -- purpose, vision, engagement, structure, character, results, success and talent.It moves beyond the boundaries of transactional performance (pay me X and I'll deliver Y) to purpose-centered performance that releases talent, creativity and engagement
"Great Performance Starts With Why" according to Roy Pollock. The data are clear: Engaged employees are happier, more productive, and more profitable. Yet survey after survey reveals that large segments of the workforce are no longer engaged in their work. And a leading cause is that work—or more specifically, the organization they work for--has lost its meaning for them; it no l. Different! Autamme_dot_com The answer to the question is not as straightforward as you might imagine, yet the central message is! How do we get a company to function well and keep focussed on its key purposes? Yet the author sets out to show how a more “enlightened and authentic” leadership approach can give short-term and more importantly. Robert Morris said Are you helping to build a "cathedral"?. As I began to read this book, I was again reminded of the ancient insight, "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there." Many (most?) executives today are unclear about what the purpose of their organization is, other than -- as one CEO recently explained to me -- "to keep the doors open and the light