Clive Wilson

Designing the Purposeful Organization

How to Inspire Business Performance Beyond Boundaries

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Produktbeschreibung

Inspire business performance and deliver maximum value by aligning people to a compelling business purpose.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kogan Page Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9780749472207
• ISBN-10: 0749472200
• Artikelnr.: 40919805

Autorenporträt

Clive Wilson is a writer, speaker, facilitator and business coach. He is Deputy Chairman and Head of Talent Liberation at Primeast, a UK-based training and development company. He has spoken or facilitated workshops worldwide, and his clients in the UK and US have included Exxon Mobil, Novartis, and Celgene.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction: Setting the scene
01 The power of a compelling purpose
Why are we here?
The evidence in favour of being purposeful: The 'Golden Thread'
The power of focus
Getting to the heart of purpose
Establishing our primary purpose
The wider perspective
The granularity of purpose
Purposeful teams
Using purpose in the day-to-day
Looking ahead
10 questions: purpose
Further reading
02 Clarity of vision
Defining vision
Where to start?
The most inspiring visions
Sharing the vision
The language of vision
Owning the vision
Aligning perspectives
Capturing vision at the workplace
10 questions: vision
Further reading
03 Engaging to create a learning ecosystem
A declaration
Evidence that engagement makes good business sense
Engagement lessons from the natural world
Cue the 'learning organization'
Purposeful engagement in learning
Examples of the learning ecosystem at work
Overcoming the boundary of current knowledge
10 questions: engagement
Further reading
04 Building structures to deliver
A proposition
Corporate structure
Learning from life
Fractal geometry: Critical implications for corporate structure
Purposeful structures (Chapter 1)
Visionary structures (Chapter 2)
Structures for engagement (Chapter 3)
Structures to evolve the character of what we do (Chapter 5)
Structures to measure results (Chapter 6)
Structures for success (Chapter 7)
Structures for talent (Chapter 8)
Who designs the corporate systems?
Keeping it simple
10 questions: structure
Further reading
05 Strength of character
Roman roots
Be 'GlobeSmart'
Strength of character
The power of culture
Culture and purpose
Leadership and its impact on culture
The boundaries of culture
Values and the boundary of cultural entropy
All may not be what it seems
History
The culture of a learning organization
10 questions: character
Further reading
06 Results to track purposeful progress
An affirmation
Purpose-driven or results-driven?
A 10-step guide: Targeting and achieving powerful results
10 questions: results
Further reading
07 The secret of success
Success is personal
The perceived wisdom of the world until now
What is success?
Our success at work
Providing structures for success
A purposeful shift in consciousness
Successful teams
Success and talent
10 questions: success
Further reading
08 Liberating our talents
Defining talent
The war for talent and our obsession with competence
Progressive strategies for talent management
Talent liberation
Purposeful talent: a question of ignition
Talent constellations
Talent alignment: creating a purposeful talent-centred culture
Talent collaboration: talent forum
10 questions: talent
Further reading
09 A call to action
A quick recap
This milestone
Consciously rewriting our DNA
Compassion and productivity at work
On reflection
Postscript: Signing off with work to do
Will you join me?
Affirmation
A more purposeful world?
So, what of the future?
References
Index