Eleadership: Proven Techniques For Creating An Environment Of Speed And Flexibility In The Digital Economy
Langue : anglais
Edité par Free Press, 2001
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What if the rules that made you successful were the cause of your current problems? What if the name of the game was personal fulfillment rather than power and wealth? What if the biggest threat to your company's future was employee dissatisfaction? What if success in the digital economy depended on refreshing your work environment? What if you could eliminate friction between baby boomers and younger workers? What if the answer was eLeadership? From one of the world's leading management consultants comes a dynamic new style of leadership that will enlighten and inspire executives to rethink and retool their companies for the eWorld. Transforming today's overwhelmed corporate executive into an eLeader requires launching a revolution in the workplace. But the payoffs -- personal and professional -- can be extraordinary. With business practices changing on a daily basis, companies must create environments of speed and flexibility that will engage today's employees and allow radical ideas to thrive, because only those companies that move first and innovate fast will reap the financial rewards the digital economy has to offer. In eLeadership, author and consultant Susan Annunzio takes you beyond typical management-speak, offering a real blueprint for leading this revolution. Readers will learn to inspire, encourage, and retain staff at all levels. Annunzio teaches new ways to: Create a twenty-first-century vision for your company Promote environments that succeed in the eWorld Think about what a company is and what it should look like Ignite passion for saving America's traditional businesses Through dozens of real-world examples of eLeadership in action, Annunzio shares the five critical steps to heroic leadership, and shows how to close the gap between the baby boomers and the younger Generations X and Y to create a more productive working environment. As this timely book shows, the greatest opportunity to make a difference in corporate America today may be in attacking traditional priorities in unconventional ways.…
N° de réf. du vendeur 9780743204385
- Titre
- Eleadership: Proven Techniques For Creating An Environment Of Speed And Flexibility In The Digital Economy
- Auteur
- Susan Annunzio
- Éditeur
- Free Press
- Année de publication
- 2001
- État de l'article
- New
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- Hardcover
- Langue
- anglais
- ISBN à 10 chiffres
- 0743204387
- ISBN à 13 chiffres
- 9780743204385
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What if one morning you arrived at your corporate offices and no one was there?
Your marketing staffers had decided to base themselves at various client headquarters.
The salespeople, equipped with Palm Pilots, Thinkpads, and digital wireless phones, were operating in mobile virtual offices.
Because of economics, customer service had been moved to another city, as had your distribution warehouse.
The R&D team you assembled was a collection of brilliant thinkers located around the world who worked with each other on networked computers and the occasional videoconference.
Your support staff -- accounting, communications, corporate counsel -- preferred to telecommute, plugging into the network from home offices and talking to each other via email and fax.
Even your personal assistant actually was located at the offices of your corporate parent, five hundred miles away; you and he communicated via calendar software, pager, and overnight mail.
What if, sitting alone at a big desk, you realized you didn't need a corporate office building at all? What would you do?
Welcome to the world of evolutionary leadership, where business strategies are fluid, workers are smarter and more demanding than ever, and the old rules of business just don't apply.
It's a world of global markets, ad hoc teams, telecommuters, email, videoconferences, online ordering, virtual offices, intranets, networked alliances, and instant information. And it's full of both challenges and opportunities for evolutionary leaders.
What Is Evolutionary Leadership?
Evolutionary leadership is a new style of business management designed specifically to guide top executives as they retool their businesses to compete in the eWorld.
In this brave new world, what does evolutionary leadership entail?
Evolutionary leadership means shaking up your corporate culture and fostering an attitude of speed and flexibility in order to facilitate the internal transformation to an environment for the new economy.
Evolutionary leadership means managing the clash between baby boomers and the new, brash Generation X and Y workers -- and finding a way to combine the talents of both groups to achieve success.
Evolutionary leadership means making the tough decisions that will set your company on the path to success in the connected economy -- and in the process save jobs, companies, and even entire industries.
Evolutionary leadership demands heroic behavior. It requires abandoning past business models and challenging current assumptions and beliefs. It entails breaking many of the rules we've played by for generations. It means sacrificing the comfort of the status quo in the quest for a new direction that will survive.
And most important, evolutionary leadership ultimately is not about connecting technology, but about connecting people.
Says Dave Tolmie, former CEO of yesmail.com, a permission email marketer, "The success of a company is based on the collective capabilities of its people. Every company needs to be more collegial and less structured so that the collective talents have a way to manifest themselves."
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates echoed the significance of the work environment in his book Business at the Speed of Thought: "The most important 'speed' issue is often not technical but cultural. It's convincing everyone that the company's survival depends on everyone moving as fast as possible."
Reinforcing that comment, international eBusiness consultant Eric Marcus says technology represents only 5 percent of the transformation process. The other 95 percent of a company's metamorphosis is represented by the changes in organizational behavior and culture that are at the heart of evolutionary leadership.
As a leader, it's not your job to worry about how your technology is set up. There are people more techno-savvy than you to make those decisions. Your job is more compelling, and ultimately, more critical: to create an environment where everyone can unleash their creativity. Technology is not an end in itself, but merely an enabler in the search for new products and services.
In the example above, evolutionary leadership means challenging the accepted belief that running a successful business includes bringing the entire staff under one roof from nine to five every day. Evolutionary leadership may require trusting employees to work independently in scattered offices. It may force you to give up some of the symbols of the Industrial Age: hierarchical organizations, clear lines of authority -- even office buildings.
Evolutionary leadership may force you to measure success differently, both corporately and personally. In the future, the world is going to measure success in terms of how many new ideas your company has generated and what kind of talent you're keeping and attracting. Meanwhile, you may need to reconsider golden parachutes, country-club memberships, and corner offices -- things that were the measures of success in the past. In the world we grew up in, these were ways of saying, "I made it." But they have become increasingly irrelevant.
Evolutionary leadership may mean finding new ways to be a leader: new ways to motivate when you don't see every employee every day, new ways to communicate your vision and create a culture, and new ways to think about what a company is and what it should look like.
We live in a world of new technology. We are bombarded by it every day. The availability of new tools has affected every company; it's forced them to reevaluate their businesses and rethink their strategies on marketing, distribution, communications, and organizational structure. Even if the strategy ultimately is to have no eStrategy, every business leader has had to rethink his company's place in the world. The new world is about "ruthless execution," as Amir Hartman states it in his book NetReady.
Most of the stories in this book are about strategy implementation: how companies like AMFM Inc., GATX Terminals, and DSM Desotech put in new business strategies to deal with increased competition and speed -- and then how those companies worked to catapult new behavior. The same principles that guided these companies apply in today's world of ruthless execution.
There are stories about companies faced with the challenge and availability of new technologies -- and how those company leaders handled it. You'll read about Educational Testing Service coming to grips with how new computer-based testing would affect its entire organization. You'll hear how CCH, a ninety-year-old book publisher, moved its products onto software and the Internet. You'll read about the trials of two large banking companies, Synovus and Wachovia Bank, as they created online banks.
Although the initial goal was to help established companies make the transition to the new economy, evolutionary leadership is not just for the traditional company. It's really about the kinds of leadership practices needed in the world we live in. And sometimes, though start-ups and dotcoms have fast-paced environments and stock options for everyone, the leaders sound and look and taste much like the leaders of the past. Having visited many start-ups, my experience is that there's a surprising amount of hierarchical behavior and old-line thinking in start-up companies. Once you get past the funky locations and pool tables, they can look just like any Industrial Age company, with employee cubicle size determined by rank. In fact, it's my impression that start-ups are finding themselves working hard to protect the cachet of the hot new company -- sometimes at the expense of their environment.
Oakleigh Thorne, who led the re-creation of CCH, is now a venture capitalist involved with several start-up companies. "What amazes me about these new companies is how they too have to change their culture," he says. "People can become ingrained in a culture in a week."
With that in mind, you'll read about the successes and challenges of big and small companies in establishing and maintaining environments that support new economy behavior.
So whether you are in traditional corporate America or at a start-up firm, the rules of the new economy challenge you to be an evolutionary leader.
You must have a vision for your company. You need to create an environment where ideas flourish and can be challenged. You need to deal with employees expediently and fairly. You need to communicate and inspire your workforce.
Creating an environment for the connected economy is not just a matter of getting up and telling your workforce that you want and need new behavior. It has to be more than symbolic gestures.
"If you open up 'new' old companies, you'll see they look a lot like the 'old' old companies," says Carl Russo, the entrepreneur whose Cerent Corp. became part of Cisco Systems in 1999. "The dress code has changed, which is really neat. But I'm not sure that it has anything to do with the core value set the company uses day to day. I think it's hard to cut at the core of that."
That's your challenge. Evolutionary leadership requires creating a workplace where new behavior is encouraged. It demands a new, irreverent way of communicating with employees. You must make sure this behavior isn't merely talked about, but really happens. Evolutionary leadership forces you to take the rhetoric of change and put it on the floor.
The Call to Action
The opportunity for evolutionary leadership exists at the juncture of several powerful forces:
- The business world's need for leaders to guide the transformation to the connected economy
- The speed of the changes in the business climate
- The long-term economic peril many companies and industries face
- The increasing reliance on intellectual capital
- The movement of Generation X and Y into the workforce
- The talent crunch in a booming economy
- The personal motivation among current business leaders to leave a legacy and make a difference in the world
Technology is creating business challenges not seen since the early twentieth century.
Spurred by technology, we are experiencing a fundamental reshaping of businesses, markets, and competition that's just as dramatic as that wrought by the growth of the auto industry -- but the changes are geometrically faster.
In a survey by Nextera, 97 percent of business leaders said the rate of change affecting their companies is higher than it was just two years ago. Three-fourths of the respondents said that rate of change had doubled in a decade.
Speed is the first requirement of any cultural transformation, and it affects every other decision. To keep up with how quickly the world is changing, businesses must move from a strategic planning mode to a more immediate sort of strategic thinking -- where decisions are being made "real time."
While you are learning how to make decisions on the spot, you might as well realize that in this new world, you also will be making many of those decisions with insufficient data. No more six-month research reports or consumer studies. No more lengthy analysis upon which you'll base a carefully examined decision. The need for speed means that you will be operating more than ever using your instinct and expertise. In many circumstances, making a decision -- any decision -- will be more important than making the right decision. And it will take collaboration -- the finest minds in your company working together to make their cumulative best guess.
If it's any comfort, the inability to rely on research and analysis to make decisions may be a moot point because in many of the situations you'll confront in your transformation to the digital economy there simply are not established best practices to follow. As consultant Eric Marcus says, it's not about best practices but next practices. You don't need to worry about consulting precedents or historical examples. There are none.
"A lot of success in this world comes down to leadership and execution -- and being able to sustain some sort of business model through a world of insane competition," says venture capitalist/evolutionary leader Oakleigh Thorne.
Consultants who specialize in helping "traditional" companies make the transformation to the connected economy say emphatically that successful transformations depend on three variables: how quickly a company learns to do business in new ways, how well it leverages the unique characteristics of electronic markets, and how well it adapts operational processes, management decision-making, and the organizational structure to the eBusiness world.
All three things, but particularly the last one, fall into the arena of evolutionary leadership. Massive organizational change is on the way.
As we're moving at light speed, we must be willing to ask ourselves tough questions about the future of our companies. Which of our current operating assumptions need to be challenged? What new business models need to be explored? And, consequently, what new offerings, services, sales models may exist? What must we as leaders do to better serve the marketplace, our clients, and our employees?
And then, we must ask the questions that are the heart of this book: How can we continue to retain and recruit the best and the brightest when competing against a host of other opportunities? How can we leverage our employee brainpower to assist us in answering these and other questions we face as change rapidly descends? How do we encourage the employee behavior needed to implement these strategies in a time- and cost-effective way?
An evolutionary leader needs to maintain core competencies and address the future simultaneously -- as he reinvents his corporate environment. If he does not, his company's survival may be at stake.
Focusing on People
At the same time that all the rules about competition, market strategies, and organizational design have been turned upside down, we also must confront profound changes in the workforce -- and the role of people in making or breaking the transition to the twenty-first century economy.
The move from an economy based on manufacturing tangible products to one of intangible products and services, where information is the new currency, changes everything about how businesses are run and particularly how employees are treated -- because now your most valuable asset is likely the information in your employees' heads.
"In our world today, financial capital is abundant. Financial capital is no longer the problem. Human capital is the problem," says Andy Rosenfield, chairman-CEO of UNext.com.
But the corporate rules that governed American business for most of the past century are dinosaurs that frequently get in the way of establishing new environments.
Lawrence Baxter has one foot on either side of the fence, as executive vice-president in charge of Wachovia Bank's new online banking venture. Says Baxter, "Four or five years ago in financial services, t...
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Vous devez renvoyer les marchandises ou les remettre à SZ Global, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, sans retard injustifié et, en tout état de cause, au plus tard 14 jours à compter du jour où vous nous avez communiqué votre décision de rétractation du présent contrat. Le délai est respecté si vous renvoyez les marchandises avant l'expiration du délai de 14 jours. Vous devrez prendre en charge les frais directs du renvoi des marchandises. Vous n'êtes responsable que de toute diminution de valeur des marchandises résultant d'une manipulation autre que celle nécessaire pour établir la nature, les caractéristiques et le fonctionnement des marchandises.
Exceptions au droit de rétractation
Le droit de rétractation ne s'applique pas à ce qui suit :
- Distribution de journaux, de revues ou de magazines, à l'exception des contrats d'abonnement ; et
- Fourniture d'un contenu numérique qui n'est pas fourni sur un support matériel (par exemple, sur un CD ou un DVD) si vous avez accepté, lors de votre commande, que nous puissions commencer à le livrer et que vous ne puissiez pas exercer votre droit de rétractation une fois la livraison commencée.
Conditions d'expédition
Returns Policy
You may return most new, unopened items within 15 days of the Estimated Delivery Date for a full refund. We'll also pay the return shipping costs if the return is a result of our error (you received an incorrect or defective item, etc.).
Any customer wishing to return a book has 30 days to do so if they are not entirely satisfied.
You should expect to receive your refund within three weeks of giving your package to the return shipper, however, in many cases you will receive a refund more quickly. This time period includes the transit time for us to receive your return from the shipper (5 to 10 business days), the time it takes us to process your return once we receive it (3 to 5 business days), and the time it takes your bank to process our refund request (5 to 10 business days).
If you need to return an item, please Contact Us with your order number and details about the product you would like to return. We will respond quickly with instructions for how to return items from your order.
Shipping
We can ship to virtually any address in the world. Note that there are restrictions on some products, and some products cannot be shipped to international destinations.
When you place an order, we will estimate shipping and delivery dates for you based on the availability of your items and the shipping options you choose. Depending on the shipping provider you choose, shipping date estimates may appear on the shipping quotes page.
Please also note that the shipping rates for many items we sell are weight-based. The weight of any such item can be found on its detail page. To reflect the policies of the shipping companies we use, all weights will be rounded up to the next full pound.