The leadership (r)evolution : creating a high performance organisation / Christo Nel and Nolan Beudeker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nel, Christo, author.

Beudeker, Nolan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational effectiveness.

Organizational change.

Industrial management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 p.)

Edition:

Second updated edition.

Place of Publication:

Randburg, Republic of South Africa : Knowres Publishing, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Creating a sustainable High Performance Organisation (HPO) is one of the primary leadership challenges facing any leader. This has always been the case in any era and organization, but the nature of this challenge has undergone a revolution since the 1960s. The world of work has evolved. The emerging generation of talented people and future leaders increasingly reject authoritarian, command-and-control style leaders as the norm. The focus on discipline and the delivery of high performance has not decreased. In the globalised world this demand is increasing. The difference is that leaders and organizations that deliver sustainable competitiveness have discovered that they have to place equal emphasis on performance AND people; being competitive AND caring; being courageous AND consistent. The reality is that your organization is first and foremost a human system, and so it needs to be designed and run in ways that are fit and friendly for human life. In order to achieve this new way of being, it is important that all leaders in your organization, regardless of their seniority, focus on the behaviours and actions that will generate energy and therefore productivity in the organization. Using South African case studies and examples benchmarked against global best practices, the areas of focus covered in the book include: the way you execute your strategy the way you organize your people in order to achieve your strategy how you recruit retain and manage your talent how you reward and celebrate their success the way you measure your efforts to achieve your strategy and implement the controls you need to achieve it the values you embed that all stakeholders need to buy into how you manage the change leadership that is required to make all of this happen It will require both revolutionary and evolutionary changes to remodel your organization and adopt the actions and behaviours required from leaders who create High Performance Organisations."

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; HOW TO USE THIS BOOK; INTRODUCTION; 1 THE NEW ECONOMY - A REVOLUTION OF LEADERSHIP; 2 THE VALUES SHIFT; 3 THE JOURNEY TO NEW ECONOMY LEADERSHIP AND SUSTAINABLE COMPETITIVENESS; 4 VISA TO (W)HOLE STRATEGY EXECUTION; 5 STRUCTURES; 6 TALENT CREATION; 7 BUSINESS DISCIPLINES; 8 RECOGNITION AND REWARD; 9 CHANGE LEADERSHIP; 10 STAKEHOLDER VALUE; Epilogue A REVOLUTION OF DEMOCRATISATION; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; APPENDIX C; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 4, 2015).

ISBN:

1-283-86690-0

1-86922-217-2

OCLC:

843090454