{"product_id":"book-ob03","title":"Humanocracy, Updated \u0026 Expanded","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller • Named one of \"The 10 Best Business Books of 2021\" by \u003cem\u003eForbes\u003c\/em\u003e • Named one of the \"Best Books of 2020: Critics' Picks\" by the \u003cem\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/em\u003e • Named one of the \"Best Business Books 2020: Strategy\" by \u003cem\u003estrategy+business\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNow more than ever, we need organizations that are daring, resilient, and creative.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eUnfortunately, when confronted by unprecedented challenges, most companies and institutions prove to be timid, plodding, and orthodox. The culprit is bureaucracy. With its top-down power structures and rule-choked systems, bureaucracy hobbles ingenuity and innovation. In a time of upheaval, these long tolerated impediments are fast becoming competitively and economically untenable. Humanity needs and deserves something better.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eHumanocracy\u003c\/em\u003e, Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini make a passionate, data-driven argument for uninstalling bureaucracy and reinventing management as we know it. In this extensively updated and expanded edition, readers will find new and compelling case studies, the latest research findings, and a wealth of fresh and provocative insights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHumanocracy\u003c\/em\u003e is both a manifesto for institutional renewal and a blueprint for building organizations that are as courageous, energetic, and ingenious as the people inside them. Essential building blocks include:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMotivation:\u003c\/strong\u003e Rallying colleagues to the challenge of reimagining management as usual\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eModels:\u003c\/strong\u003e Leveraging the experience of vanguard organizations that have successfully disrupted the bureaucratic status quo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMindsets:\u003c\/strong\u003e Escaping the industrial-age thinking that undermines the quest to build radically more capable organizations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMobilization:\u003c\/strong\u003e Activating a pro-change coalition to hack outmoded management systems and processes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMigration:\u003c\/strong\u003e Embedding the principles of humanocracy-ownership, markets, meritocracy, community, openness, experimentation, and paradox-in your organization's DNA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eIf you've finally run out of patience with bureaucratic bullshit; if you're eager to build an organization that can outrun change and outperform expectations; if you believe every team member deserves the chance to do something extraordinary, then this book's for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Hamel and Zanini may be onto something. Unleash people's creativity and productivity will improve, job satisfaction will increase, and workers in supposedly 'low-skilled' jobs will be free to demonstrate their abilities. If so, the future of work needn't be gloomy after all.\"\u003c\/em\u003e-\u003cstrong\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":66562048983344,"sku":"ZEob03","price":55.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":66562049016112,"sku":"ZMob03","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/ob03-Square-cover.jpg?v=1776454270","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ob03","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}