Hot groups : seeding them, feeding them, and using them to ignite your organization / Jean Lipman-Blumen, Harold J. Leavitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lipman-Blumen, Jean, author.

Leavitt, Harold J. (Harold Jack), 1922- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational effectiveness.

Group decision making.

Industrial efficiency.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book describes how small ad hoc groups within firms can come together to perform a particular task and achieve extraordinary results, even in otherwise large and seemingly monolithic organisations.

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Preface; Part I: Hot Groups: What They Are and Why They're Hot; Chapter 1 The Hot Group State of Mind: What Is It? Where Is It? Why Does It Matter?; Chapter 2 Hot Groups: Why Now?; Chapter 3 How Hot Groups Think: Left Brain? Right Brain? How About Both?; Chapter 4 How Hot Groups Work: Fast, Focused, and Wide Open; Part II: Who Leads Hot Groups? And Who Seeds New Ones?; Chapter 5 Leaders of Hot Groups I: Three Kinds of Leadership; Chapter 6 Leaders of Hot Groups II: Some Options for the Leader of a New Group

Chapter 7 Leaders of Hot Groups III: Leaders Who Seed Many Crops of Hot GroupsPart III: How Do Hot Groups Operate?; Chapter 8 Hot Groups' Structures and Strategies: How Do We Get There from Here?; Chapter 9 Hot Groups and the Organization: A Marriage of Inconvenience?; Chapter 10 Using Hot Groups to Improve the Organization: Some More Marriage Counseling; Chapter 11 Why Some Hot Groups Fizzle While Others Sizzle: Four Cautionary Tales; Chapter 12 Hot Groups and the Individual: What's in It for Me? And What's Not?; Chapter 13 The Organizational Surround I: Where and When Do Hot Groups Thrive?

Chapter 14 The Organizational Surround II: Hot Groups Also Grow in Unexpected PlacesPart IV: An Optimistic View of What's Ahead; Chapter 15 Things Change at Different Speeds; Chapter 16 Differential Rates of Change Augur Glad Tidings; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-290) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-770303-8

1-280-53035-9

0-19-535204-1

1-4294-0470-1

OCLC:

476007759