Best Practices in Leadership Development and Organization Change: How the Best Companies Ensure Meaningful Change and Sustainable Leadership (Jossey-Bass Leadership Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787976253 ISBN 13: 9780787976255

Verlag: Pfeiffer, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

In this important book, successful organizations―including well-known companies such as Agilent Technologies, Corning, GE Capital, Hewlett Packard, Honeywell Aerospace, Lockheed Martin, MIT, Motorola, and Praxair―share their most effective approaches, tools, and specific methods for leadership development and organizational change. These exemplary organizations serve as models for leadership development and organizational change because they

• Commit to organizational objectives and culture
• Transform behaviors, cultures, and perceptions
• Implement competency or organization effectiveness models
• Exhibit strong top management leadership support and passion

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Louis Carter is the founder and CEO of the Best Practices Institute, which provides services in the design, development, management of best practice programs, research, and publications in leadership and organization development. He is the coeditor or editor of Linkage Inc.’s Best Practices in Leadership Development Handbook from Pfeiffer and author of The Change Champion’s Fieldguide.

David Ulrich is a professor at University of Michigan Business School. He has been ranked by Business Week as the number one management educator and has been listed in Forbes as one of the "world's top five" business coaches. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters and of Organizational Capability from Jossey-Bass, and he is the coauthor of Why the Bottom Line ISN'T!  from Wiley.

Marshall Goldsmith is a founding director of The Alliance for Strategic Leadership, a consulting organization that includes over 100 top professionals in the field of leadership development. He is the author or editor of fourteen books including Coaching for Leadership and Linkage Inc.’s Best Practices in Leadership Development Handbook from Pfeiffer and The Leader of the Future from Jossey-Bass. 

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Edited by leadership and organization experts and best-selling authors Louis Carter, David Ulrich, and Marshall Goldsmith, <i>Best Practices in Leadership Development and Organization Change</i> contains a wide-variety of forms, instruments, case studies, research, methods, and guides that can be used for implementing effective programs within any type of organization. Based on research from the Best Practices Institute, the book offers best practices from eighteen of the world&#8217;s best organizations&#190;Agilent Technologies, Corning, Delnor Hospital, Emmis Communications, First Consulting Group, GE Capital, Hewlett Packard, Honeywell Aerospace, Intel, Lockheed Martin, Mattel, McDonalds, MIT, Motorola, Praxair, St. Luke&#8217;s Hospital and Health Network, StorageTek, and Windber Medical Center.

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Best Practices in Leadership Development and Organization Change offers a practical resource for organizations that must become more effective, productive, and profitable in an increasingly challenging economy. Based on an extensive research study performed by the Best Practices Institute, this book draws on the findings from eighteen of the world's best organizations which have used leadership development and organizational change program design and development to achieve their strategic business objectives.

In this important book, successful organizations--including well-known companies such as Agilent Technologies, Corning, GE Capital, Hewlett Packard, Honeywell Aerospace, Lockheed Martin, MIT, Motorola, and Praxair--share their most effective approaches, tools, and specific methods for leadership development and organizational change. These exemplary organizations serve as models for leadership development and organizational change because they

• Commit to organizational objectives and culture
• Transform behaviors, cultures, and perceptions
• Implement competency or organization effectiveness models
• Exhibit strong top management leadership support and passion

Best Practices in Leadership Development and Organization Change includes innovative practices in areas such as product development, work team development, return on investment calculations, implementation of continuous assessment and evaluation metrics, self-expression workshops, integration of the whole system, and practical uses of post-modernism and Eastern philosophy to build consensus. In addition, the book outlines a step-by-step, six-phase system--Business diagnosis, Assessment, Program design, Implementation, On-the-job support, and Evaluation--that is designed to bring about relevant and sustainable organizational change.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Pfeiffer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0787976253
• ISBN 13: 9780787976255
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 512
• Herausgeber: Carter Louis, Ulrich Dave, Goldsmith Marshall
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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