The End of Management

Author: Crook
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: Preface by Warren Bennis, world-renowned leadership master; Highly recommended by James Champy, the father of "Business Reengineering"! The inhumane, mechanical, and inefficient authoritarian management will be replaced, and the driving force of organizational transformation comes from the guidance of management masters! The business world has enormous potential for progress and change, but only when management practices change will business transformation be realized. This book provides a roadmap for the future of leadership. The End of Management showcases cutting-edge management thinking, and its conclusions are based on 30 years of in-depth research by the two authors on hundreds of organizations in over a dozen countries, including Fortune's Top 100 and numerous government agencies, non-profit organizations. The End of Management offers a revolutionary new perspective on future organizations and, in the process, redefines leadership in the 21st century. In this groundbreaking work, Kenneth Crook and Joan Goldsmith explore the end of traditional management and demonstrate the essential elements needed to create cooperative, democratic, and self-managing organizations. In this book, the authors present irrefutable facts showing that companies, government agencies, schools, and non-profit organizations can be greatly improved by empowering their employees to self-manage and take responsibility for their own transformation. The authors clearly articulate how cooperation, self-management, and organizational democracy fundamentally change not only the way we work but also the nature of work itself. Organizations will create flexible, value-driven policies and procedures that respond instantly to customer needs, and they will view conflict as an opportunity for progress and learning.