Beyond Management

Taking Charge at Work

M. Addleson

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Jahr: 2011
• ISBN:
  9780230343412
• Thema: Business
• Thema: Gestione

Traditional management structures, systems, and tools, intended to make the first factories of the industrial ageefficient, are now obsolete. Applying them to knowledge-work has exactly the opposite effect, causing all kinds of breakdowns. This book explains why knowledge workers have to manage themselves and tells them how to do it.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgments
• 1 The end of the line
• 2 Getting into work
• 3 Organizing: getting the beat
• 4 Jeff’s journal: project work on the inside
• 5 Left-brain management and right-brain organizing
• 6 Knowledge-work in close-up
• 7 The work of organizing with giant hairballs and wicked problems
• 8 Tools are the empty heart of management or why strategic initiatives fail
• 9 Practices that break the mold with agility and care
• 10 In search of low-control organizing practices: community, care, cooperation, and commitment
• 11 Taking on the work of organizing
• 12 Conversations for aligning: openness, commitments, and accountability
• 13 Organizing moves
• 14 Handling hierarchy and more
• 15 Good work wanted
• Notes
• References
• Index