Evolving Business Environment, Experts Call for Radical Change in Management
"Management Reset" Provides Provocative New Management Principles to Create Shared Value and Ensure Sustainable Effectiveness
LOS ANGELES, April 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today's organizations are under intense pressure to meet new performance demands. And the only way they can succeed, according to organization effectiveness experts Edward E. Lawler III and Christopher G. Worley, is to make fundamental changes to strategy, organization design and leadership. In their latest book, Management Reset: Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness (Jossey-Bass, 2011), Lawler and Worley provide prescriptive practices for doing so.
"The old ways of managing are obsolete," said Lawler, professor at the University of Southern California (USC) Marshall School of Business, and founder and director of the University's Center for Effective Organizations (CEO). "Today's complex, global business world demands a new approach to management – one that makes change easy and delivers triple bottom-line results."
Redefining the Management Model
Management Reset is a guide to how organizations need to be managed and designed to achieve what Lawler and Worley have termed "sustainable effectiveness."
"We are challenging the ways businesses and their leaders think about decision making," added Worley, senior research scientist in USC's CEO and professor of management at Pepperdine University. "This is the future of management."
Management Reset provides illustrative lessons from well-known organizations that are already profiting from these sustainable management principles and practices, including Microsoft, Cisco, Netflix, DaVita, Starbucks and the U.S. Secret Service.
Edward E. Lawler III is a contributor to theory, research and practice in HR management, and organization development and effectiveness. A Distinguished Professor of business at the University of Southern California (USC) Marshall School of Business, he is also the founder and director of the University's Center for Effective Organizations (CEO), one of the country's leading management research organizations.
A widely recognized leader in strategic change and organization development and design, Christopher G. Worley, Ph.D., provides the innovative perspectives today's complex organizational challenges require. He holds a joint appointment as a senior research scientist in USC's CEO and professor of management at Pepperdine University.
Management Reset: Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness by Edward E. Lawler III and Christopher G. Worley; Jossey-Bass; March 2011; Hardcover: $34.95; 352 pages; ISBN 978-0-470-63798-2
SOURCE Edward E. Lawler III and Christopher G. Worley
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