What Matters Now

Some stories stay with you long after the last page. What Matters Now is one of them – a paperback that rewards an unhurried read. Runs to about 304 pages, so it's a book you'll want to pass on to a friend when you're done.

What it's about

This is not a book about one thing. It's not a 250-page dissertation on leadership, teams or motivation. Instead, it's an agenda for building organizations that can flourish in a world of diminished hopes, relentless change and ferocious competition. This is not a book about doing better. It's not a manual for people who want to tinker at the margins. Instead, it's an impassioned plea to reinvent management as we know it--to rethink the fundamental assumptions we have about capitalism, organizational life, and the meaning of work. SECTION 1: Values Matter Now · Putting First Things First · Learning from the Crucible of Crisis · Rediscovering Farmer Values · Renouncing Capitalism's Dangerous Conceits · Reclaiming the Noble SECTION 2: Innovation Matters Now · Defending Innovation · Cataloging the World's Greatest Innovators · Inspiring Great Design · Turning Innovation Duffers into Pros · Deconstructing Apple SECTION 3: Adaptability Matters Now · Changing How We Change · Becoming an Enemy of Entropy · Diagnosing Decline · Mourning Corporate Failure · Future-Proofing Your Company SECTION 4: Passion Matters Now · Exposing Management's Dirty Little Secret · Putting Individuals Ahead of Institutions · Building Communities of Passion · Reversing the Ratchet of Control · Reinventing Management for the Facebook Generation SECTION 5: Ideology Matters Now · Challenging the Ideology of Management · Managing Without Hierarchy · Escaping the Management Tax · Inverting the Pyramid · Aiming Higher

Book details

• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 304
• ISBN: 9788126534951
• Published: 2012-02-27
• Dimensions: 12.5 x 1.5 x 21.0 cm
• Category: Non-Fiction

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Is What Matters Now available in paperback or hardcover?

This listing is for the paperback edition of What Matters Now.

What language is this edition in?

This edition is in English.

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