Description
Book SynopsisThe Power of Alignment Misaligned companies, like cars out of alignment, can develop serious problems if not corrected quickly. They are hard to steer and don't respond well to changes in direction. This groundbreaking book shows you how to getand keepall the vital elements of your organization aligned and headed in the same direction at the same time.
Managers must now keep their people centered in the midst of change, deemphasize hierarchy, and distribute leadership by distributing authority, information, knowledge, and customer data throughout their organization. Alignment is a response to the new business reality where customer requirements are in flux, where competitive forces are turbulent, and where the bond of loyalty between an organization and its people has been weakened. The old linear approach to management has given way to one of simultaneityto alignment.
As pioneers of the alignment concept, the authors have developed this unique approach based on their w
Table of Contents
Getting to the Main Thing.
Staying Centered: What Alignment Is All About.
Organizational Pathologies.
Aligning Activities with Intentions: Vertical Alignment.
Ships Passing in the Night: Getting to Horizontal Alignment.
The Self-Aligning Organization.
Distributed Leadership.
Appendices.
Notes.
Index.
