TY - BOOK ID - 46204428 TI - Transforming the clunky organization : pragmatic leadership skills for breaking inertia PY - 2018 SN - 1501710591 1501710044 9781501710049 1501710052 1501710036 9781501710056 9781501710599 9781501710032 PB - Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Organizational behavior. KW - Executive ability. KW - Leadership. KW - Organizational effectiveness. KW - Organizational change. KW - Change, Organizational KW - Organization development KW - Organizational development KW - Organizational innovation KW - Management KW - Organization KW - Manpower planning KW - Ability KW - Command of troops KW - Followership KW - Administrative ability KW - Executive skills KW - Behavior in organizations KW - Psychology, Industrial KW - Social psychology KW - Organizational change KW - Organizational effectiveness KW - Leadership KW - Executive ability KW - Organizational behavior KW - E-books KW - management styles, office politics, Tim Cook, Elon Musk, modernizing. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46204428 AB - Organizations, like people, get stuck! They get ensnared in routines and processes, and they fall back into old habits. This is the dangerous period of inertia, the period that precedes failure, when organizations show signs of sluggishness.In Transforming the Clunky Organization Samuel B. Bacharach specifies why organizations fall into patterns of inertia and details the critical pragmatic leadership skills leaders need to regain organizational momentum. From Alfred Sloan, to Lee Iacocca, to Lou Gerstner, to Indra Nooyi, to Steve Jobs, to Jeff Bezos, Bacharach argues that their pragmatic leadership skills assured that their organization did not get trapped by the doldrums of inertia. He employs case illustrations to identify clunky tendencies and inertia within organizations across a wide range of business sectors including technology, finance, banking, home entertainment, and retail. Illustrations are drawn from organizations such as Amazon, Apple, Borders, Merrill Lynch, Nintendo, Starbucks, and Unilever, among many others.Bacharach argues that in order to achieve their potential, organizations need to be perpetually involved in two activities. The first is discovery-organizational leaders need to continuously explore new opportunities and transfer new insights into new products, processes, and directions. The second is delivery-organizational leaders need to be able to mobilize support for ideas, sustain and drive these ideas forward, and achieve results. Successful discovery and delivery allows organizations to truly thrive and continuously meet their potential.Expanding on The Agenda Mover, the first book in the BLG Pragmatic Leadership Series, this book offers a roadmap for individual leaders at all levels to create the agility and synergy needed for the continuous organized flow of information and the movement of ideas. Clunky organizations need leaders that are explorers and innovators in the discovery phase and mobilizers and sustainers to deliver solutions. Transforming the Clunky Organization provides the keys for necessary behaviors that allow leaders to successfully break inertia and foster agility.This book will appeal to leaders at all levels within organizations, change-management consultants, and business-school professors. ER -