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The Boundaryless Organization\

Ron Ashkenas, Dave Ulrich, Todd Jick and Steve Kerr

The Boundaryless Organization shows how to eliminate the artificial obstacles of hierarchy, turf, and geography that too often stand in the way of outstanding business performance. The text demonstrates how top organizations such as Samsung, Morgan Bank, and SmithKline Beecham are busting boundaries on all fronts, each enjoying results by encouraging the flow of ideas, resources, and talents in and out of the organization, up and down the hierarchy, and across geographic boundaries
  

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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
 Stephen Covey

According to the author, to live with security and wisdom, and be able to take advantage of the opportunities created by change, we need fairness, integrity, honesty and human dignity. In this guide, Covey defines the "habits" as "the intersection of knowledge, skill and desire" and states that the seven habits of the title are not mutually exclusive but, when developed together, help to form a well-rounded, sensitive, confident and effective human being.

He aims to help the reader overcome the barriers that prevent many of us from taking a long hard look at ourselves, and introduces new rules allowing us to move first from dependence to independence and then towards the ultimate goal of interdependence.

By the same author: PRINCIPLE-CENTRED LEADERSHIP
  

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The Effective Executive
Peter Drucker

The measure of the executive, the author reminds us, is the ability to get the right things done. This text identifies the five talents essential to effectiveness, and explores how these talents can be learned by the executive.
 

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Competing for the Future
Gary Hamel and CK Prahalad

Written by two leaders of business strategy, this book provides a model for attaining industry leadership. It explains how to balance the demands of current businesses with the drive toward leadership in the markets of the future.
The authors show executives how to:

• Get their company off the restructuring and reengineering treadmilland onto the elusive path of corporate revitalization.

• Develop the industry foresight necessary to proactively shape industry evolution.

• Establish a truly stretching strategic intent and mobilize the entire organization in its pursuit.

• Discover ways of leveraging resources that will enable the company to attain heroic goals despite resource constraints.

• Develop a point of view on which core competencies can be built for the future.

• Extend the boundaries of corporate imagination and revitalize the process of new business creation.

By the same author: LEADING THE REVOLUTION
   

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Understanding Organizations
Charles Handy

Organizations are a part of everyday life, whether in schools, hospitals, police stations or commercial companies. In this text, Charles Handy argues that the key to successful organizations lies in a better understanding of the needs and motivations of the people within them. "Understanding Organizations" offers an extended "dictionary" of the key concepts - culture, motivations, leadership, role-playing, co-ordinating and consultation - and then shows how this "language" can help us find new solutions to familiar problems.

All organizations need to select, develop and reward their people; to structure and design their work; to resolve political conflicts; to lay down guidelines for their managers; and to plan for the future. In each case, the approaches and techniques described here (and the perspectives opened up by the detailed "Guide to Further Study") should prove invaluable.
   

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