Beyond Management Taking Charge at Work [Hardcover]

Traditional management structures, systems,and tools, intended to make the first factories of the industrial ageefficient, are now obsolete. Applying them to knowledge-work has exactly the opposite effect, causing all kinds of breakdowns. This book explains why knowledge workers have to manage themselves and tells them how to do it.The End of the Line Getting into Work Organizing: Getting the Beat 'Jeff's Journal: Project Work on the Inside' Left-Brain Management and Right-Brain Organizing Knowledge-Work in Close-Up The Work of Organizing with Giant Hairballs and Wicked Problems Tools are the Empty Heart of Management or Why Strategic Initiatives Fail Practices that Break the Mould with Agility and Care In Search of Low-Control Organizing Practices: Community, Care, Cooperation, and Commitment Taking On the Work of Organizing Conversations for Aligning: Openness, Commitments, and Accountability Organizing Moves Handling Hierarchy and More Good Work Wanted

In Beyond Management: Taking Charge at Work, Mark Addleson goes beyond the easy platitudes of most authors on collaborative work to dig deep into the underpinnings of exactly how people work together in peer-to-peer relationships and networks. From this foundation his suggestions are well grounded in research and practice, yet are practical and straightforward for managers and leaders to implement. He incisively drives home why the world of work must be understood as socially driven. His examples and pragmatic suggestions show how to use the way people naturally network and self organize to speed sense making, improve decisions and foster creativity. Well done! - Verna Allee, President ValueNet Works, author Value Networks and the True Nature of Collaboration.

Mark Addleson's Beyond Management shows us not only why the hierarchical bureaucracy of traditional management is expensive, inefficient and at odds with the needs of today's organization but also how knowledge-work can be organizedl#