The Management Shift : How to Harness the Power of People and Transform Your Organization for Sustainable Success.

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- Chapter 1 Why it is Time Now for The Management Shift -- Organizations Today Face Unprecedented Challenges -- We have a problem! -- There is a cause to the problem: outdated management paradigm and practices -- There is a solution to the problem: the emergingmanagement paradigm and practices - or The Management Shift -- Peter Drucker's timeless wisdom -- Moving from Newton's Mechanistic to the Living Systems Management -- From the old to the new management paradigm -- From the clockwork to the complex adaptive systems management -- Putting the new management paradigm into action -- Examples from the real world of business: companiesimplementing emerging management practices do well financially -- Chapter 2 The Need for a New Type of Leadership -- The Management Shift Requires a New Leadership Style -- Leading for purpose, values, passion and compassion -- From traditional to emergent leadership -- Complexity science and leadership -- Leading Knowledge Workers is Different -- Knowledge workers: what do they want? -- Leading knowledge workers for innovation in the creative economy -- Guidelines for Implementing Emergent Leadership in Practice -- Facilitating informal networks -- Organic growth based on expertise -- Developing a caring organizational culture based on intrinsic motivation -- Collaboration and cross-fertilization of ideas between communities and teams -- Developing trust, allowing experimentation and tolerating mistakes -- Distribution of responsibility, decision- making and control, and voluntary leadership -- Senior management support -- When should emergent leadership style be implemented? -- New Leadership in Practice -- Semco -- HCL Technologies.

Brand Velocity Inc. -- Whole Foods Market -- W.L. Gore &amp -- Associates -- CSC Germany -- Zappos.com -- Chapter 3 Insights from the Leading Management Thinkers: from the Why and What to the How -- The Why, the What and the How of The Management Shift -- Leading Management Thinkers Sing the Same Tune -- The perception of strategy is changing -- Innovation as the lifeline for organizations -- Unleashing engagement and passion for work -- Common Themes Emerging -- Chapter 4 The Emergent Leadership Model: From the Stagnating to the Unbounded Culture -- Evolution of the Human Consciousness and Organizational Cultures -- Emergent Leadership Model: Five Levels of Individual and Organizational Development -- Individual levels: from lifeless to limitless -- Organizational levels: from apathetic to unbounded -- Reaching Levels 4 and 5 Culture -- Triggers for shifting to Level 4 culture -- Some of the outcomes of shifting to Level 4 culture -- Moving up the individual levels -- The next step: moving an organization from Level3 to Level 4 for a breakthrough in innovation,engagement, value creation and overall organizational success -- Chapter 5 The 6 Box Leadership Model: An Organizational Body Scan -- Moving Organizations from Level 3 to Level 4: The Creation of the 6 Box Leadership Model -- Philosophical thinking behind the 6 Box Leadership Model -- Reviewing existing organizational models -- Thematic analysis of relevant research -- Development of an online questionnaire -- Mapping 6 Box Leadership Questions to the Additional Three Frameworks -- First additional mapping: Reinvention Framework -- Second additional mapping: Management 2.0 principles -- Third additional mapping: the key ideas of Peter Drucker -- Statistical Analysis -- The Process of the 6 Box Leadership Diagnostic Development: A Summary -- Using the Four Mappings in Practice.

Standard process for implementing the 6 Box Leadership diagnostic -- Chapter 6 The 6 Box Leadership Model in Action: Practical Examples -- Application of the 6 Box Leadership Model in Practice for The Management Shift -- Example 1: The US Management Consultancy - Facilitating Strategy for Growth -- Examples of the key results -- Overall findings for the management consultancy -- Translating scores into action -- Example 2: The City of London Insurance Company - Engaging Employees -- Examples of the key results -- Overall findings for the insurance company -- Translating scores into action -- Example 3: The UK National Health Service Trust - Improving Employee Engagement and Customer Service -- Examples of the key results -- Overall findings for the NHS Trust -- Translating scores into action -- Example 4: The Nordic IT Consultancy - A Life-changing Experience -- Examples of the key results -- Overall findings for the IT consultancy -- Translating scores into action -- Creating Value and Positive Ripples by Using the 6 Box Leadership Diagnostic -- Chapter 7 The Management Shift is Achievable Now: A Call for Action -- Achieving a Sustainable Value Creation, Innovationand Engagement Through Mindset Change and Inspirational Management Practices -- The Management Shift Takes a Momentum:Examples of Groups and Networks Working on Reaching the Tipping Point -- The Drucker Society London -- The Drucker Institute: thought leaders meeting on long-termism -- The Management Innovation eXchange: Management 2.0 Hackathon -- The Stoos Network -- The People Cloud Thought Leadership -- Management paradigm shift : the UK initiative -- Business schools: time for change -- The Management Shift movement -- The Future of Management is Here: Unstoppable Metamorphosis to a Butterfly -- Creating The Management Shift in Your Organization: Call for Action.

To take or not to take action now? -- How can this book be used to take an action? -- Key management lessons from this book -- A few final words -- Appendixes -- 1 Examples of Companies that have Implemented Emergent Management Practices -- 2 Mapping of the Emergent Leadership Model's Five Levels to Other Relevant Models of Development -- 3 Key Models and Tools for Organizational Change Compared to the 6 Box Leadership Model -- 4 Six Phases of Thematic Analysis Followed in this Research -- 5 Background Research: Key Projects, Research MethodsUsed, Key Findings, Key Output and the Link to the Six Boxes of the 6 Box Leadership Model -- 6 Examples of Some of the Factors in the 6 Box Leadership Model and Sources of Data -- 7 Examples of an Online Data Input in the 6 Box Leadership Model Online Tool -- 8 Examples of Statistical Tests Conducted -- 9 An Example of the 6 Box Leadership Model's Aggregate Output -- Notes -- Contact Details -- Free Trial of the 6 Box Leadership Diagnostic -- Index.

A new tried and tested model for leadership to help managers improve engagement, remove barriers to innovation and uncover the hidden strengths of every company's greatest asset: their workforce.

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