Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and LeadershipJohn Wiley & Sons, 2013 M01 9 - 512 pages 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:
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... executive of Enron's auditor, Andersen Worldwide, made the same claim, even though Andersen partners in Chicago had debated whether to drop Enron as a client because the company's accounting was so aggressively pushing acceptable ...
... executive of Enron's auditor, Andersen Worldwide, made the same claim, even though Andersen partners in Chicago had debated whether to drop Enron as a client because the company's accounting was so aggressively pushing acceptable ...
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... executive search, outplacement, training, organization development, and many more. For every managerial question or issue, there is a consultant willing to offer assistance— at a premium price. For all their sage advice and remarkable ...
... executive search, outplacement, training, organization development, and many more. For every managerial question or issue, there is a consultant willing to offer assistance— at a premium price. For all their sage advice and remarkable ...
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... executive browsing in the management section of her local bookstore on a brisk winter day early in 2003. She is worried about her company's flagging performance and about the chance that her job might soon disappear. She spots the black ...
... executive browsing in the management section of her local bookstore on a brisk winter day early in 2003. She is worried about her company's flagging performance and about the chance that her job might soon disappear. She spots the black ...
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... executive suite doors to show employees he wasn't trying to shut them out. He also gathered a group of employees in the company's parking lot to burn the old restrictive policy manuals. “Bonfires in my company?” she muses. “I don't ...
... executive suite doors to show employees he wasn't trying to shut them out. He also gathered a group of employees in the company's parking lot to burn the old restrictive policy manuals. “Bonfires in my company?” she muses. “I don't ...
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... executive who led the turnaround of Volvo's French division in the 1980s, put it this way: “The world simply can't be made sense of, facts can't be organized, unless you have a mental model to begin with. That theory does not have to be ...
... executive who led the turnaround of Volvo's French division in the 1980s, put it this way: “The world simply can't be made sense of, facts can't be organized, unless you have a mental model to begin with. That theory does not have to be ...
Contents
PART TWO THE STRUCTURAL FRAME | 41 |
PART THREE THE HUMAN RESOURCE FRAME | 111 |
PART FOUR THE POLITICAL FRAME | 181 |
PART FIVE THE SYMBOLIC FRAME | 239 |
PART SIX IMPROVING LEADERSHIP PRACTICE | 301 |
APPENDIX THE BEST OF ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIES SCHOLARS HITS AND POPULAR BESTSELLERS | 435 |
REFERENCES | 439 |
NAME INDEX | 459 |
SUBJECT INDEX | 471 |
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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 |
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