Quantum Organizations: A New Paradigm for Achieving Organizational Success and Personal Meaning (Boston: Davies-Black, 2001; Newport Coast, CA: Organizational Design Consultants, 2010)
by Ralph H. Kilmann
From the Book Jacket
Today's executives and managers face an unprecedented challenge: They must find innovative ways to meet the demands of the complex and interrelated problems posed by new technology, globalization, rapid change, and intensifying competition. Empowerment, reengineering, organizational learning, and other change initiatives have attempted to offer practical solutions to this challenge. But what has been lacking is a completely integrated approach for leading, managing, and organizing for the new millennium.
Quantum Organizations presents a new paradigm that can help today's executives see, think, and act in new ways—ways that enhance organizational success and personal meaning. Management expert and top-selling author Ralph Kilmann brings together more than three decades of research and consulting experience in this groundbreaking book to provide a practical guide to achieving the essential—transformational—changes the new realities require.
Writing with a masterful command of the sweep of human evolution and the awesome discoveries of the new sciences, Kilmann shows why the old concepts that served the industrial age must give way to altogether new categories—a new paradigm—for the age of global interdependence and self-aware consciousness. And he clearly explains how to use this new paradigm to see the increasing interconnections among industries, markets, organizations, and organizational members; radically improve infrastructures, systems, and processes; create new levels of organizational success and economic value; and reach new heights of personal meaning, fulfillment, and enlightenment.
To Order QUANTUM ORGANIZATIONS
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1: TWO DUELING PARADIGMS
The Essential Categories for Seeing, Thinking, and Behaving
CHAPTER 2: THE NEW ORGANIZATION
From Essential Categories to Achieving Self-Transformation
CHAPTER 3: QUANTUM INFRASTRUCTURES
Generating the Potential for Achieving Self-Transformation
CHAPTER 4: FORMAL SYSTEMS
Managing Strategy-Structure and Rewards with Quantum Thinking
CHAPTER 5: PROCESS MANAGEMENT
Improving Core Processes Within and Across Subunits
CHAPTER 6: CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS
Enabling Self-Aware Consciousness, Organizational Success, and Personal Meaning
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
INDEX