On High-Performance Organizations
A Leader to Leader Guide
Drucker Foundation Future Series
1. Edition March 2002
XII, 180 Pages, Softcover
Handbook/Reference Book
Short Description
The Leader to Leader Guides are drawn from the Drucker Foundation's award-winning journal Leader to Leader and are organized around common themes, giving readers a diversity of views on a single topic. These short, accessible volumes will introduce new readers to the wellspring of rich insight and information provided by Leader to Leader, and provide experienced readers with a convenient, attractive package of favorite articles. On High Performance Organizations features leading experts on creating strategic advantage and passion driven organizations.
On High-Performance Organizations features the best thinking from top experts on organizational effectiveness, sustaining growth, and strategy. Written in a concise style that is ideal for the busy executive with little spare time, the book presents a stellar roster of contributors. On High-Performance Organizations is one title in the Leader to Leader Guides, which draw from the most compelling articles that have appeared in Leader to Leader, the Drucker Foundation's award-winning journal.
About the Editors.
1. Putting One's House in Order (Frances Hesselbein).
2. High Reliability: The Power of Mindfulness (Karl Weick and Kathleen Sutcliffe, with David Obstfeld).
3. The Marketing of Leadership (Philip Kotler).
4. The View from a Cubicle (An Interview with Scott Adams).
5. Economically Correct Leadership (James O'Toole, Bruce Pasternack, and Jeffrey W. Bennett).
6. Laws of the Jungle and the New Laws of Business (Richard Tanner Pascale).
7. Better Than Plan: Managing Beyond the Budget (Douglas K. Smith).
8. An Alternative to Hierarchy (Gifford Pinchot).
9. A Passion for the Business (An Interview with Jacques Nasser).
10. Strategic Generosity (Leonard L. Berry).
11. Creating Your Next Business Model (Adrian Slywotzky).
12. Principles for Partnership (James E. Austin).
13. Leadership in a Virtual World (Deborah L. Duarte and Nancy Tennant Snyder).
Index.
Rob Johnston is president and CEO of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management. He was executive producer for Leading in a Time of Change, a 2001 video featuring Peter F. Drucker and Peter M. Senge and for the Nonprofit Leader of the Future video teleconference. He is a senior editor for the Leader to Leader journal, and has contributed a chapter to Enterprising Nonprofits (Wiley, 2001).
