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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... president . At a number of major junctures in American history ( including the assassi- nation of President John F. Kennedy , the Iran - Contra scandal , and the September 11 ter- rorist attack ) , each agency held pieces of a larger ...
... president remarked ruefully that his primary job seemed to be to provide " sex for the students , parking for the faculty , and football for the alumni . " The remark was half facetious , but it reflects an important reality : a president's ...
... president to lead depend on focusing the nation's political attention and its energies on two or three top priorities . From the standpoint of history , the flow of events seems to have immutable logic , but political reality is ...
Contents
MAKING SENSE OF ORGANIZATIONS | 1 |
Conclusion | 18 |
Common Fallacies in Organizational Diagnosis | 35 |
Copyright | |
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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 |
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