Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits Hardcover - 2007
by Robert C. Townsend; Warren Bennis
From the rear cover
Up the Organization
"The sagest (and even most outrageous) book ever written about how business should be run." --Harper's Magazine
ALTHOUGH IT WAS FIRST PUBLISHED more than thirty-five years ago, Up the Organization continues to top the lists of best business books by groups as diverse as the American Management Association, strategy+business (Booz Allen Hamilton), and The Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management. 1-800-CEO-READ ranks Townsend's bestseller first among eighty books that "every manager must read."
This commemorative edition offers a new generation the benefit of Robert Townsend's timeless wisdom as well as reflections on his work and life by those who knew and worked with him. This groundbreaking book continues to remind us not to get mired in all those sacred organizational routines that stifle people and strangle both profits and profitability.
In today's climate of seemingly endless incidents of corporate corruption, government fraud, and personal scandals, Up the Organization is more relevant than ever. Many of Townsend's observations are as witty as they are wise. "There's nothing fundamentally wrong with our country except that the leaders of all our major organizations operate under the wrong assumptions." "One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure." "If you have to have a policy manual, publish the Ten Commandments."In addition to the book's advice that is striking in its candor, spontaneity, and integrity, this new edition includes essays from such leaders as James O'Toole, Bob Davids, and Robert Gottlieb, as well as a never-before-published transcript of Townsend's Conference Board speech: "Townsend's Third Degree in Leadership."
Read Up the Organization and discover why Robert Townsend served as role model for a generation of corporate activists.From the jacket flap
Up the Organization
"The sagest (and even most outrageous) book ever written about how business should be run." --Harper's Magazine
ALTHOUGH IT WAS FIRST PUBLISHED more than thirty-five years ago, Up the Organization continues to top the lists of best business books by groups as diverse as the American Management Association, strategy+business (Booz Allen Hamilton), and The Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management. 1-800-CEO-READ ranks Townsend's bestseller first among eighty books that "every manager must read."
This commemorative edition offers a new generation the benefit of Robert Townsend's timeless wisdom as well as reflections on his work and life by those who knew and worked with him. This groundbreaking book continues to remind us not to get mired in all those sacred organizational routines that stifle people and strangle both profits and profitability.
In today's climate of seemingly endless incidents of corporate corruption, government fraud, and personal scandals, Up the Organization is more relevant than ever. Many of Townsend's observations are as witty as they are wise. "There's nothing fundamentally wrong with our country except that the leaders of all our major organizations operate under the wrong assumptions." "One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure." "If you have to have a policy manual, publish the Ten Commandments."In addition to the book's advice that is striking in its candor, spontaneity, and integrity, this new edition includes essays from such leaders as James O'Toole, Bob Davids, and Robert Gottlieb, as well as a never-before-published transcript of Townsend's Conference Board speech: "Townsend's Third Degree in Leadership."
Read Up the Organization and discover why Robert Townsend served as role model for a generation of corporate activists.Details
- Title Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits
- Author Robert C. Townsend; Warren Bennis
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Commemorative Ed
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Jossey-Bass, San Francisco
- Date 2007
- Features Dust Cover, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780787987756 / 0787987751
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.42 x 5.82 x 1.07 in (21.39 x 14.78 x 2.72 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Management
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007007195
- Dewey Decimal Code 658
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