Flat army: creating a connected and engaged organization
"There is no easy way to undo what years, and even decades, of outdated management practice have done to leaders. Command and control is rampant, evil and unnecessary. The process of change has to start with the leadership in any organization, and Flat Army is designed to prevent your organization's ship from sinking"--Dust jacket flap.
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- Full title :Flat army : creating a connected and engaged organization / Dan Pontefract.
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"There is no easy way to undo what years, and even decades, of outdated management practice have done to leaders. Command and control is rampant, evil and unnecessary. The process of change has to start with the leadership in any organization, and Flat Army is designed to prevent your organization's ship from sinking"--Dust jacket flap.
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- Publication Date:2013
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Jossey-Bass, a Wiley imprint
- Place of Publication:Hoboken, NJ
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013
The Physical Object
- Description:xiii, 314 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781118529799, 1118529790
- oclc:ocn822645907
- LC Classification:HD57.7
- Dewey Decimal:658.4
Table of Contents
"Leaders of any description and department are struggling. Society is awash with social technologies; employees want to be included in the conversations and decisions; and management is stuck sorting out how teams should operate using dated leadership models in a new and technologically sophisticated social world order. Human Resources need to catch up with technology; Finance continues to operate in a silo; and IT is tripping over both legacy systems and news, social technologies, while experiencing difficulty adjusting to a more collaborative behavioral model. Most importantly, employees are becoming significantly more disengage. Does any of this sound familiar? There is no easy way to undo what years, and even decades, of outdated management practice have done to leaders. Command and control is rampant, evil and unnecessary. The process of change has to start with the leadership in any organization, and Flat Army is designed to prevent your organization's ship from sinking. Dan Pontefract knows and understands what happens to organizations when employees are unhappy and uncommitted. More importantly, he know what it takes to create a leadership culture that drives engagement, e…
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