{"product_id":"leading-organization-design-how-to-make-organization-design-decisions-to-drive-the-results-you-want-hardcover","title":"Leading Organization Design: How to Make Organization Design Decisions to Drive the Results You Want - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGregory Kesler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAmy Kates\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Business leaders recognize the need to continually align their organizations to changes in the marketplace and are seeking guidance from both internal and external practitioners. This book helps consultants, HR and organization development professionals understand the process needed and best practices for implementing, evaluating, and adjusting their organization designs in complex organizations. It offers step-by-step guidance for setting up effective governance and management processes to execute a design, and offers insight into helping leaders gain the skills needed to put the design into action\"--\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eToday's organizations\u003c\/b\u003e are as complex as the global strategies they are designed to support. The right organization design is a competitive advantage as companies expand their reach into emerging markets and attempt to channel scarce resources away from yesterday's priorities into innovation and new growth opportunities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeading Organization Design\u003c\/i\u003e outlines a scalable, five-step process to help senior business leaders, supported by skilled human resources or OD professionals, make smart design decisions. While being careful to ensure that a company's organization design is not more complex than necessary, expert authors Greg Kesler and Amy Kates show how the ability to design and manage an organization that can execute complex strategies brings competitive advantage over firms whose management can only do one thing well. With insights from extensive consulting work around the world and their research on many large multinationals, the authors reveal how to generate and evaluate the right design options, how to set up governance and management processes to align power effectively in the matrix, and how to engage the right people in implementing difficult organization changes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresenting new frameworks, concepts, and tools that examine in depth how companies like Nike, Coca-Cola, P\u0026amp;G, Cisco, and others have tackled today's design challenges, \u003ci\u003eLeading Organization Design\u003c\/i\u003e provides new ways of thinking about design as well as a coherent way to organize existing knowledge about the field. It is an essential guide for business leaders who want to make better organization design decisions and for internal and external professionals who support them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eLeading Organization Design\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sheds light on the challenges of organization design in a complex enterprise and more importantly provides an insightful and practical roadmap for business decisions.\" --\u003cb\u003eRandy MacDonald\u003c\/b\u003e, SVP, human resources, IBM \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Designing organizations for performance can be a daunting task. Kesler and Kates have done an admirable job distilling the inherent complexity of the design process into manageable parts that can yield tangible results. \u003ci\u003eLeading Organization Design\u003c\/i\u003e provides an essential hands-on roadmap for any business leader who wants to master this topic.\" --\u003cb\u003eRobert Simons\u003c\/b\u003e, Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Kesler and Kates have encapsulated their wealth of knowledge and practical experience into an updated model on organizational design that will become a new primer on the subject.\" --\u003cb\u003eNeville Isdell\u003c\/b\u003e, retired chairman and CEO, The Coca-Cola Company \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In today's world of global business, organizational design is a critical piece of long-term success. Kesler and Kates have captured multiple approaches to optimize global opportunities, while highlighting some of the keys to managing through organizational transition. A great read for today's global business leaders.\" --\u003cb\u003eCharles Denson\u003c\/b\u003e, president, Nike Brand \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLeading Organization Design\u003c\/i\u003e has some unique features that make it valuable. It is one of the few and certainly only recent books to take us through an explicit process to design modern organizations. This is accomplished with the five-milestone process. The process is not a simple cookbook. Indeed, the authors have achieved a balance between process and content. In so doing, Kesler and Kates show us what to do as well as how to do it.\" --\u003cb\u003eJay Galbraith\u003c\/b\u003e, from the Foreword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Authors\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe authors are managing partners at Kates Kesler Organization Consulting. The organization design approach and tools they have developed together and with Jay Galbraith have become the standard internal design methodology used in dozens of major corporations around the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGREG KESLER\u003c\/b\u003e has consulted with corporations worldwide for over twenty years on organization design, executive talent management, and HR planning. He has published many articles and book chapters on organization design and succession planning and is on the editorial board of \u003ci\u003ePeople \u0026amp; Strategy\u003c\/i\u003e journal. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAMY KATES\u003c\/b\u003e helps leaders and teams assess organizational issues, reshape structures and processes, and build depth of management capability. She is coauthor of two books with Jay Galbraith and an editor of \u003ci\u003ePeople \u0026amp; Strategy\u003c\/i\u003e. 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