Building High-Performance, High-Trust Organizations - Decentralization 2.0

Some vanguard companies have evolved to a higher level of decentralization originating in the enabling-and-autonomy paradigm. A new kind of deep leadership is practiced by these spirit-driven organizations. This book brings together theory and case studies to cover historical origins and developments of both types of decentralization.

List of contents

Prologue 1. Complexity is a Consequence of Living in a Sandpile World 2. Only Variety Absorbs Complexity 3. Top-down Decentralization and the Folly of Power First Story: The Pennsylvania Railroad Company 4. Going Against the Grain: Aborted Bottom-up Decentralization Second Story: The Durham Coal Miners 5. Common-sense Decentralization by Working with Human Nature - Not Against It Third Story: Svenska Handelsbanken 6. Deep Leadership Creates the Social Glue Keeping High-variety Organizations Together Epilogue

About the author

Originally a physicist with a life-long interest in the complexity sciences, Gerrit Broekstra is Professor Emeritus of Organization Behavior at the Nyenrode Business University, the Netherlands. He was previously a professor and dean at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, the Netherlands, and a visiting professor at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, USA.

Summary

Some vanguard companies have evolved to a higher level of decentralization originating in the enabling-and-autonomy paradigm. A new kind of deep leadership is practiced by these spirit-driven organizations. This book brings together theory and case studies to cover historical origins and developments of both types of decentralization.

Product details

• Authors: G. Broekstra, Gerrit Broekstra, Gerriet Broel
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349490363
• ISBN: 978-1-349-49036-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 12 mm x 216 mm
• Weight: 292 g
• Illustrations: XXIV, 200 p.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; Social sciences, law, business > Business; Management, B, Planning, Leadership, Organization, Business Strategy/Leadership, Transportation, Business & management, Electrical Engineering, International business, Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering, business strategy, Industries, Management & management techniques, Management science, Industry & industrial studies, International business enterprises, Business Strategy and Leadership, Palgrave Business & Management Collection