Ron Ashkenas Bücher

Essential for leaders climbing the corporate ladder, this book provides invaluable insights and strategies tailored for navigating organizational dynamics. It emphasizes key skills and mindsets necessary for effective leadership, ensuring readers are equipped to tackle challenges and inspire their teams. By focusing on practical advice and real-world applications, it serves as a vital resource for those aiming to enhance their leadership capabilities and drive success within their organizations.

Typically, when big innovations are initiated in organizations, improvement efforts are put in place without careful consideration for how they will play out on the micro level. As a result, they often die on the vine. Rapid Results! solves the problem of successful implementation.

In 1995 The Boundaryless Organization showed companies how to sweep away the artificial obstacles-such as hierarchy, turf, and geography-that get in the way of outstanding business performance. Now, in this completely revised edition of their groundbreaking work, management experts Ron Ashkenas, Dave Ulrich, Todd Jick, and Steve Kerr offer an up-to-date version of their comprehensive guide to help any organization go "boundaryless"-and become a company with the ability to quickly, proactively, and creatively adjust to changes in the environment. With new examples, a new commentary on the developments of the last five years, and illuminating first-hand accounts from pioneering senior executives, the authors once again show why "boundaryless" is a prerequisite for any organization trying to succeed in the economy of the twenty-first century.

Put aside all the hypey new frameworks, the listicles, the "10 best things you need" to succeed as a leader today. The critical leadership practices--the ones that will allow a leader to make the biggest impact over time--are already well established. They're about how you relate to others. How you make difficult strategic choices. How you get results. How you scan the landscape around you, build a vision for the future, and inspire people to follow you. In fact, these fundamental skills are becoming more important today as organizations and teams become increasingly networked and fragmented and the nature of leadership hierarchies changes. What's hard is actually doing these things--and excelling at them. In this book, strategy and change experts Ron Ashkenas and Brook Manville distill the best proven ideas and frameworks about leadership from Harvard Business Review and from their careers in leadership development and transformation into a concise handbook that shows rising leaders how to have the most impact on their organizations. You'll learn how to build a unifying vision, set strategy, manage for results, hire and inspire great leaders and teams, drive innovation, and, finally, lead yourself on your own career journey. Each chapter of the book describes one of these six practices in depth, discussing the pitfalls that real leaders face and how to overcome them, with insights from well-known leaders such as Stanley McChrystal, Dominic Barton, Darren Walker, Jack Welch, and Ann Mulcahy. Each chapter also synthesizes the best Harvard Business Review thinking on the topic. This book gives you the tools you need to have more impact as a leader today, and into the future.-- Provided by publisher

"A powerful case for democracy and how it can adapt and survive-if we want if toIs democracy in trouble, perhaps even dying? Pundits say so, and polls show that most Americans believe that their country's system of governance is being "tested" or is "under attack." But is the future of democracy necessarily so dire? In The Civic Bargain, Brook Manville and Josiah Ober push back against the prevailing pessimism about the fate of democracy around the world. Instead of an epitaph for democracy, they offer a guide for democratic renewal, calling on citizens to recommit to a "civic bargain" with one another to guarantee civic rights of freedom, equality, and dignity. That bargain also requires them to fulfill the duties of democratic citizenship: governing themselves with no "boss" except one another, embracing compromise, treating each other as civic friends, and investing in civic education for each rising generation.Manville and Ober trace the long progression toward self-government through four key moments in democracy's history: Classical Athens, Republican Rome, Great Britain's constitutional monarchy, and America's founding. Comparing what worked and what failed in each case, they draw out lessons for how modern democracies can survive and thrive. Manville and Ober show that democracy isn't about getting everything we want; it's about agreeing on a shared framework for pursuing our often conflicting aims. Crucially, citizens need to be able to compromise, and must not treat one another as political enemies. And we must accept imperfection; democracy is never finished but evolves and renews itself continually. As long as the civic bargain is maintained-through deliberation, bargaining, and compromise-democracy will live"-- Provided by publisher

Famous "Work-Out" change-management tool explained by the people who helped develop it. GE's legendary Work-Out program played a key role in the company's phenomenal success over the past decade and has been implemented in many other organizations. Now three executives and consultants who developed the original Work-Out approach at GEoften working directly with CEO Jack Welchdiscuss the inner workings of Work-Out and their experiences at successfully implementing the program at GE. Filled with effective assessment and decisionmaking tools, The GE Work-Out provides concrete and realistic guidance for anyone who wants to implement Work-Out and break down bureaucracy and hierarchy within an organization.

Jedyny podręcznik, jakiego potrzebujesz, żeby rozwinąć umiejętności niezbędne liderowi. Zapomnij o przereklamowanych nowych modelach przywództwa, najważniejsze praktyki przywódcze są od dawna znane. Jakość przywództwa zależy od tego, jak tworzysz wizję i inspirujesz innych, żeby za nią podążali. Jak podejmujesz trudne strategiczne decyzje oraz wprowadzasz innowacje. I jak uzyskujesz wyniki. W tym kompleksowym podręczniku Ron Ashkenas i Brook Manville, specjaliści w dziedzinie strategii i zmian, przedstawiają sprawdzone koncepcje i definiują cechy dobrego przywództwa, uzupełniając tę wiedzę wywiadami z wysokiej rangi menedżerami oraz własnymi doświadczeniami a wszystko po to, by pomóc początkującym liderom stać się wybitnymi przywódcami i wywierać istotny wpływ na otoczenie.

Jedyny podręcznik, jakiego potrzebujesz, żeby rozwinąć umiejętności niezbędne liderowi. Zapomnij o przereklamowanych nowych modelach przywództwa, najważniejsze praktyki przywódcze są od dawna znane. Jakość przywództwa zależy od tego, jak tworzysz wizję i inspirujesz innych, żeby za nią podążali. Jak podejmujesz trudne strategiczne decyzje oraz wprowadzasz innowacje. I jak uzyskujesz wyniki. W tym kompleksowym podręczniku Ron Ashkenas i Brook Manville, specjaliści w dziedzinie strategii i zmian, przedstawiają sprawdzone koncepcje i definiują cechy dobrego przywództwa, uzupełniając tę wiedzę wywiadami z wysokiej rangi menedżerami oraz własnymi doświadczeniami – a wszystko po to, by pomóc początkującym liderom stać się wybitnymi przywódcami i wywierać istotny wpływ na otoczenie. W Harvard Business Review. Podręczniku lidera znajdziesz m.in.: zwięzłe omówienie sprawdzonych modeli przywództwa, opracowane na podstawie publikowanych w „Harvard Business Review” artykułów autorstwa m.in. Claytona M. Christensena i Michaela E. Portera, pogłębione studia przypadków dotyczące wysokich rangą liderów, na przykład Jamesa Wolfensohna z Banku Światowego, Pauli Kerger z PBS, Darrena Walkera z Ford Foundation i Jamesa C. Smitha z Thomson Reuters, szczegółowe wskazówki ułatwiające zrozumienie i stosowanie sześciu podstawowych praktyk przywódcy, którymi są: tworzenie jednoczącej wizji, opracowywanie strategii, pozyskiwanie świetnych współpracowników, koncentrowanie się na wynikach, innowacyjne działanie na rzecz przyszłości i kierowanie sobą.