Can a good company become a great one and, if so, how? After a five-year research project, the author concludes that good to great can and does happen. Here, he uncovers the underlying variables that enable any type of organization to make the leap from good to great while other organizations remain only good.

This pragmatic guide shows how to create an organization of learners. The stories in this book show that businesses, schools, agencies and even communities can undo their learning disabilities and achieve superior performance.

Offers exercises, tools and techniques for sustaining organisational learning over the long term, as well as suggestions, advice, cautions and warnings based on the experience of people who have already followed the path suggested by the author in The Fifth Discipline .

Part of a series presenting scholarly thinking about research and concepts related to the transformation of organizations. The papers presented in Volume 14 address practical, conceptual and methodological issues in the field of organizational change.

Highlights 48 proven techniques, or patterns, for implementing change in organizations or teams of various sizes, and shows you how to use them successfully. This book enables you to understand the forces in your organization that drive and retard change and plant the seeds of change.

Directed at managers and employees in today's corporations, where change is necessary to revitalize and improve corporate performance, this guide addresses the fact that it is people that have to carry out the change.

Transforms the abstract concept of culture into a tool that managers and students can continually use to better shape the dynamics of organization and change.

Radical and hopeful, synthesises cutting-edge thinking, firsthand knowledge and ancient wisdom. Gives the reader an intimate look at the development of a new theory about change and learning.

Draws on science, spiritual values, psychology, the cutting edge of management thought with leading companies which employ Fifth Discipline methods. This edition contains more than 100 pages of material about how companies are actually using and benefiting from Fifth Discipline practices.

Learning from the Future as It Emerges.

Provides an overview of the theoretical and research foundation for our understanding of organization change, including the nature and types of change organizations experience. This work reviews various models, and uses cases to demonstrate how the models can be used to diagnose change issues in organizations.

An extraordinarily powerful, easily learned technique for managers that can add more top performers and up to forty percent more capacity to an organization - all at no cost.

Provides a framework, a sense making tool, a set of systematic steps, and a methodology for helping managers and their organizations carefully analyze and alter their fundamental culture.

This study describes the organizational and managerial ways in which firms can overtake and pass other companies. It stresses the concept of quality of life within an organization, and outlines three major ways that this can be achieved.

Confronts the challenge of turning knowledge about how to improve performance into actions that produce measurable results. This book identifies the causes of the knowing-doing gap and explains how to close it.

We will not survive unless we adapt to the way the world is changing. This book helps us to understand what Tom Peters, the American business guru, has called the new 'upside down' competitive realities in the world of work and of leisure.

In this text, the author outlines his scenaric approach to developing a strategic vision for businesses, drawing on work done for institutions and companies such as the White House, EPA and the International Stock Exchange.

Explores the different approaches to employee participation - from a practitioners' perspective.

When software development teams move to agile methods, experienced project managers often struggle--doubtful about the new approach and uncertain about their new roles and responsibilities. In this book, two long-time certified Project Management Professionals (PMPRs) and Scrum trainers have built a bridge to this dynamic new paradigm. They show experienced project managers how to successfully ...

Brings fresh perspective on why some leaders succeed more than others when taking charge of an organisation. Based on case studies, this book uncovers that success in managing transition is directly related to leaders' ability to balance seven tensions, appropriately to the context.