Book description
Answer the questions that arise when managers and workers need to adjust to unfamiliar leadership roles and rules in flattened organizational forms. Leading When You’re Not the Boss provides a conceptual framework that you can apply when assessing your own organizations and work. The book discusses the underlying ideas necessary for a shift from a culture of hierarchies to one of relationships and the establishment of intrapreneurial and holistic work environments.
This book supports the trend in many corporations toward flattening parts of their traditional top–down hierarchical management systems into more egalitarian, democratized, and distributed organizational forms. It analyzes the weaknesses of ""management"" culture at a time of ever more rapid change and complexity in the business world and illustrates how flattened organizational units increase agility, innovation, and efficacy. Moreover, it discusses how individuals can exercise effective leadership despite lacking the command-and-control authority of conventional bosses and ways for organizations to cultivate effective ""post-management"" cultures.
Especially in the technology sector, large projects have become too complex to be mastered by any single leader. Drawing on his experience as a senior manager and executive consultant for a number of Fortune Global 500 companies, Roger Strathausen analyzes the situations and benefits that motivate companies to adopt flattened organizational forms. He shows that empowering a multi-talented group to manage itself by horizontal cooperation can deliver products with more speed, efficiency, innovation, and nimbleness than a solo boss could, while yielding higher employee productivity and retention rates.
With an entertaining mix of real-world examples and an episodic HBR-style fictitious case study, the author illustrates throughout the book how his leadership lessons can be serviceable only when intelligently tailored to the dynamic complexities of specific situations, including the personalities and competencies of the people involved.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Apress Business
- Dedication
- Contents
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction: Zombies at the Workplace
- Chapter 1: Change, As Planned and As Happens: A Plea for Human Values
- Chapter 2: Leader, Know Thyself
- Chapter 3: Management Unplugged: Modulating to a Post-Management Key
- Chapter 4: Alpha Dogs
- Chapter 5: Let Talent Lead! Promoting Self-Organizing Teams
- Chapter 6: Lateral Leadership
- Chapter 7: Guiding Lost Giants: A Post-Management Strategy for Adapting Jobs to Talents
- Chapter 8: Up and Down
- Conclusion
- Index
- Other Apress Business Titles You Will Find Useful
Product information
- Title: Leading When You’re Not the Boss: How to Get Th ings Done in Complex Corporate Cultures
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2015
- Publisher(s): Apress
- ISBN: 9781484217481
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