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Designing Dynamic Organizations: A Hands-on Guide for Leaders at All Levels

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Jay Galbraith is a well-respected, research-based practitioner in the field of Organizational Design. Companies of all sizes and industries have been using the STAR model as a guide to thinking systemically when designing their organizations. I personally have been using this model as an internal OD consultant/practitioner over the last decade. This book's material continues to be very relevant and current for today's leaders. This book should serve as a basic foundation for any OD/HR professional or manager/leader desiring to create a vital, sustainable, reconfigurable, and dynamic organization. What the reader can expect is simplistic language and pragmatic tools and methods. This is a true workbook. If you are sifting through books and don't know where to start...start here!

Yes, it's easy to read and the forms look great. In practice, I've found that the flow and logic needs to be more tailored to the client. In some stages the flow seemed awkward, and didn't necessarily work. When you get that "confused look" from your client, and feel it yourself, you'll understand what I mean. I have an MSOD and have practiced 10 years. My sense is that my experience is not totally unique and I could see a revised version in the making.

This is a fantastic hands on manual for experienced or novice practitioners. The chapters are easy to understand with great case study examples.
I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in understanding dynamics and change within an organization.

Easy to read. Great format and approach to the book. Love the designs for how to approach the work at the end of each chapter. A great took as an HR / OD person.

I order this book for my boss, per our VP of HR. This book has been recommended by our top corporate executives. I personally have not read the book, however it's highly regarded at my organization.

Constant change, economic uncertainty, unrelenting competition and the frenetic pace of cyber-commerce now strain even the most nimble organizations. Traditional leaders designed many companies, especially those more than a few decades old, along strict hierarchical, top-down parameters, so these firms often find it hard to react swiftly to change. Consultants Jay Galbraith, Diane Downey and Amy Kates have assembled their savvy change management counsel to rescue stuck companies. They designed this "thought-guide" to lead executives through the wilderness of organizational transformation. Their experience-based workbook is chock-full of exercises, questions, formats, charts and tools to direct you step-by-step through the process of creating a "reconfigurable organization" that can handle shifting circumstances. While some examples in this near-classic manual are dated, the advice is still spot-on. getAbstract recommends this excellent, nitty-gritty primer on organizational transitions to executives and human resources professionals.

This is a great practical book on the steps one should take in organization al restructure. The templates are very easy to follow and the language is easy to understand.

It's a good book for the basic understanding of organization design. It's easy to read and easy to follow the concepts and theories. As a Professor I strongly recommend it.

This book is a basic for those wishing to compose and maintain a dynamic vital organization. Highly reccomended for middle level and upper managers. You will refer to it constantly.