Creating the Vital Organization (eBook)

Balancing Short-Term Profits with Long-Term Success

Scott M. Brooks, Jeffrey M. Saltzman (Autoren)

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2016
230 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
978-1-137-53694-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Are the day-to-day pressures of your business preventing your organization from reaching its full potential? 

If you are spending the bulk of your time and energy streamlining your operations - squeezing more output from your resources, shaving costs, or pressing for speed - you are risking your organization's future. Today's top leaders must balance their daily operations with future-oriented explorations so that their organizations can respond and adapt to any challenges in today's increasingly competitive and fast-moving environment. Yet focusing on both Current Performance and Future Potential is a tricky balancing act; each is a distinct pursuit that requires different skills, resources, measurements of success, and even time horizons. This book tells stories of strategy, insight, and action, featuring the latest advancements in industrial and organizational science, that will help catapult your organization to success now and in the future.
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Scott M. Brooks, Ph.D, is a founding partner and vice president at OrgVitality, a global management consulting company. With over twenty years' experience, Scott offers organizations and individuals the tools they need to drive strategic change based on surveys, HR metrics, and research that connects leadership, operations, customer loyalty and business results. Nationally recognized and frequently cited, Scott has consulted to improve the effectiveness of some of the most impressive organizations on the planet, representing diverse industries such as retail, financial services, high tech, health care, non-profit, and other service industries. He has authored numerous presentations and publications based on business strategy, scorecards and performance metrics, organizational culture, and how all these components relate to one another. He has also written a mystery novel. Scott frequently speaks at conferences and company meetings. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from The Ohio State University and a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University. 

Jeffrey M. Saltzman is the CEO of OrgVitality and an Associated Fellow at the Center for Leadership Studies, School of Management, at Binghamton University where he teaches leadership to MBA students. Jeff has over 30 years' experience in the field of Industrial/Organizational Psychology, working in the areas of organizational culture measurement, organizational development, strategic planning, executive coaching, selection and assessment, training and succession planning. Jeff has previously grown and sold a consulting practice and has overseen OrgVitality's 30 percent to 40 percent per year growth since its founding. Jeff has extensive experience in diverse settings, consulting with industry, financial services, retail, media, high technology, service companies, not-for-profits and government agencies on how to improve organizational performance. Jeff has authored three other books based on his very popular blog postings on improving organizational performance. Based in New York, he has traveled and worked extensively in Europe, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific. He has a Master's in Industrial Organizational Psychology from the University of Akron and a Bachelor's in Psychology from Binghamton University. 

Jeff and Scott are two of the founders and leaders of OrgVitality, an organization that has grown from start-up into a mature business focusing on employee and customer surveys, 360 feedback and coaching, innovation, organizational metrics, and other services. 

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Are the day-to-day pressures of your business preventing your organization from reaching its full potential? If you are spending the bulk of your time and energy streamlining your operations - squeezing more output from your resources, shaving costs, or pressing for speed - you are risking your organization's future. Today's top leaders must balance their daily operations with future-oriented explorations so that their organizations can respond and adapt to any challenges in today's increasingly competitive and fast-moving environment. Yet focusing on both Current Performance and Future Potential is a tricky balancing act; each is a distinct pursuit that requires different skills, resources, measurements of success, and even time horizons. This book tells stories of strategy, insight, and action, featuring the latest advancements in industrial and organizational science, that will help catapult your organization to success now and in the future.<

Jeffrey M. Saltzman is CEO of OrgVitality and an Associated Fellow at the Center for Leadership Studies, School of Management, at Binghamton University, USA.

Cover 1
Half Title 2
Title Page 3
Copyright Page 4
Acknowledgements 6
Table of Contents 7
List of Figures 8
List of Tables 9
Chapter 1 Introduction 10
Chapter 2 What Is Vitality? 15
Chapter 3 Strategy 26
Chapter 4 Leadership 37
Chapter 5 Developing Vital Individuals 48
Chapter 6 Protecting Innovation 59
Chapter 7 Evaluating Vitality 73
Chapter 8 Navigating Change 92
Chapter 9 Making Change Stick 106
Chapter 10 Agility and Resiliency 119
Chapter 11 Decision-Making 133
Chapter 12 Global Implementation 148
Chapter 13 Storytelling 163
Chapter 14 Step-by-Step Guide 179
Chapter 15 The Path Forward 199
Appendix A: Complete Vitality Self-Assessment 205
Appendix B: Big Five Inventory 222
Index 225

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.7.2016
• Zusatzinfo: XIII, 230 p. 5 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Schlagworte: Leadership • organization • Organizational Science • Strategy • vitality
• ISBN-10: 1-137-53694-2 / 1137536942
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-53694-5 / 9781137536945