Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and LeadershipWiley, 2003 M08 27 - 483 pages Become a More Versatile Manager and a More Artistic Leader In this third edition of their best-selling classic, authors Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal explain the powerful tool of "reframing." The authors have distilled the organizational literature into a comprehensive approach for looking at situations from more than one angle. Their four frames view organizations as factories, families, jungles, and theaters or temples:
The core of the book is reframing, a tool for finding new opportunities and options in confusing and troubling organizational situations. The authors show how multiple frames give leaders an edge in decoding organizational complexity. The new edition highlights current developments in organizational and leadership research. It presents new case examples from organizations such as eBay, Enron, Harley-Davidson, the New York City Fire Department, and the U.S. Marine Corps. The book also introduces "Organizational Theory’s Greatest Hits," text boxes that ground the book in the most influential scholarly work. The new edition also offers a rich mix of geographic, cultural, and gender diversity throughout. Includes on-line instructor’s guide available at www.wiley.com/college/bolman |
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... WorldCom , but increas- ingly desperate maneuvers only made the day of reckoning more catastrophic when it finally arrived . COPING WITH AMBIGUITY AND COMPLEXITY How do organizations cope with a complex and ambiguous environment ...
... WorldCom is a recent example of how bad things can get . CEO Bernie Ebbers built the company rapidly from a tiny ... WorldCom's high - flying stock . But “ for all its talent in buying competitors , the company was not up to the task of ...
... WorldCom illegitimately improved its profits by booking some of its operating expenses as capital investments , it made major competitors look bad and generated considerable puzzlement . Top executives at both AT & T and Sprint felt the ...
Contents
MAKING SENSE OF ORGANIZATIONS | 1 |
Conclusion | 18 |
Common Fallacies in Organizational Diagnosis | 35 |
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Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership Lee G. Bolman,Terrence E. Deal Limited preview - 2013 |
Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership Lee G. Bolman,Terrence E. Deal Limited preview - 2003 |
Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership Lee G. Bolman,Terrence E. Deal No preview available - 2013 |