On High Performance Organizations

On High-Performance Organizations features the best thinking from top experts on organizational effectiveness, sustaining growth, and strategy. Written in a concise style that is ideal for the busy executive with little spare time, the book presents a stellar roster of contributors. On High-Performance Organizations is one title in the Leader to Leader Guides, which draw from the most compelling articles that have appeared in Leader to Leader, the Drucker Foundation's award-winning journal.Die 'Leader to Leader Guides' basieren auf der preisgekrönten 'Leader to Leader'-Zeitschrift der Drucker Foundation. Sie widmen sich Themen von allgemeinem Interesse und vermitteln dem Leser eine Vielfalt von Meinungen und Ansichten zu einzelnen Themen. Dieses handliche, prägnante 4-bändige Set bietet wertvolle Informationen und Einsichten in Form praktischer und attraktiver Zusammenstellungen relevanter Artikel. Die ideale Lektüre für vielbeschäftigte Führungskräfte.
"On High Performance Organizations" enthält die besten aktuellen Tipps, Ideen und Meinungen von Spitzenexperten zum Thema effektive Unternehmensführung, nachhaltiges Wachstum, Strategie und strategischer Wettbewerbsvorteil. Mit Beiträgen von hochkarätigen Experten, wie z.B. Scott Adams, Noel Tichy, Philip Kotler und James O'Toole, die das Thema prägnant auf den Punkt bringen. Die ideale Lektüre für vielbeschäftigte Führungskräfte, denen wenig Zeit zum Lesen bleibt. Introduction.

About the Editors.

1. Putting One's House in Order (Frances Hesselbein).

2. High Reliability: The Power of Mindfulness (Karl Weick and Kathleen Sutcliffe, with David Obstfeld).

3. The Marketing of Leadership (Philip Kotler).

4. The View from a Cubicle (An Interview with Scott Adams).

5. Economically Correct Leadership (James O'Toole, Bruce Pasternack, and Jeffrey W. Bennett).

6. Laws of the Jungle and the New Laws of Business (Richard Tanner Pascale).

7. Better Than Plan: Managing Beyond the Budget (Douglas K. Smith).

8. An Alternative to Hierarchy (Gifford Pinchot).

9. A Passion for the Business (An Interview with Jacques Nasser).

10. Strategic Generosity (Leonard L. Berry).

11. Creating Your Next Business Model (Adrian Slywotzky).

12. Principles for Partnership (James E. Austin).

13. Leadership in a Virtual World (Deborah L. Duarte and Nancy Tennant Snyder).

Index. Frances Hesselbein is chairman of the board of governors of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management and editor-in-chief of its journal Leader to Leader. She is also the lead editor for the best-selling Drucker Foundation Future Series. Hesselbein served as CEO of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. from 1976 to 1990 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor, in 1998.

Rob Johnston is president and CEO of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management. He was executive producer for Leading in a Time of Change, a 2001 video featuring Peter F. Drucker and Peter M. Senge and for the Nonprofit Leader of the Future video teleconference. He is a senior editor for the Leader to Leader journal, and has contributed a chapter to Enterprising Nonprofits (Wiley, 2001). On High-Performance Organizations presents the best leadership thinking on creating strategic advantage and passion-driven organizations. Part of the Leader to Leader Guides, which offer a wellspring of rich insight and information from top leadership thinkers, it provides readers with the tools for helping their organizations excel in effectiveness, sustaining growth, and strategy.
Drawn from Leader to Leader the award-winning journal, On High- Performance Organizations brings together Karl Weick, Frances Hesselbein, Scott Adams, Philip Kotler, James O'Toole and other thought leaders to offer practical guidance for those who seek to lead their organizations to high performance. This essential volume offers leaders a roadmap for organizational success by revealing how leaders employ people with a diversity of experience and opinion, support efforts to anticipate and embrace change, build productive work communities, and disperse leadership responsibility.
Each of the four volumes in the Leader to Leader Guides-- On Mission and Leadership, On Leading Change, On High-Performance Organizations, and On Creativity, Innovation, and Renewal-- is organized around an essential topic with a diversity of views presented in clear, short chapters. These essential collections provide leaders with insight and inspiration to take their organizations to new levels of excellence. On High-Performance Organizations features the best thinking from top experts on organizational effectiveness, sustaining growth, and strategy. Written in a concise style that is ideal for the busy executive with little spare time, the book presents a stellar roster of contributors. On High-Performance Organizations is one title in the Leader to Leader Guides, which draw from the most compelling articles that have appeared in Leader to Leader, the Drucker Foundation's award-winning journal.

Learn about High Performance from these Thought Leaders
* Scott Adams
* James E. Austin
* Jeffrey W. Bennett
* Leonard L. Berry
* Deborah L. Duarte
* Frances Hesselbein
* Philip Kotler
* Jacques Nasser
* David Obstfeld
* James O'Toole
* Richard Tanner Pascale
* Bruce Pasternack
* Gifford Pinchot
* Adrian Slywotsky
* Douglas K. Smith
* Nancy Tennant Snyder
* Kathleen Sutcliffe
* Karl Weick