Does your company provide meaningful work for its employees? Here's a blueprint to help you attract, optimize, and retain top talent. Corporate culture makes a difference, and cultures are changing. The next generation of corporate culture will be dramatically different from the past. Learn why-and how-employers must shift to a more lean operation with a culture that's filled with meaning for everyone. Over 200 organizations are cited, with stimulating examples of how leading edge employers are providing meaning for their workers. Read commentaries from successful CEOs who share their "meaningful" secrets.
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Roger E. Herman and Joyce L. Gioia -- this book was written by a team of Strategic Business Futurists who concentrate on workforce and workplace trends. Through their research, Roger Herman and Joyce Gioia are able to forecast the future with a high degree of accuracy. Often described as visionaries, they integrate a wide range of trend indicators to project change.
As Certified Management Consultants, they apply their research and insights to help corporate leaders understand and prepare for the years ahead. While far-reaching and thought-provoking, their writing and speaking have a distinctly practical orientation that makes sense.
Herman and Gioia balance the bottom line and the heart. They slip easily between right and left brain thinking. The result is a clear business orientation with a strong human flavor that reflects the evolution in the World of Work.
These futurists have their fingers on the pulse of change, and they report their findings in ways that everyone can understand and use. Their experience as professional speakers has taught them how to communicate effectively. This book is a product of their experience.
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Not Simple - Just Meaningful,
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This review is from: Lean & Meaningful : A New Culture for Corporate America (Hardcover)
Leave it to Roger Herman and Joyce Gioia to write a book about the post-bloat economy in a way that provokes thoughtful action, not trendy reactions. The book's subtitle "A New Culture for Corporate America" is very apt - they're talking about nothing less than an entirely new way to think about life in our traditional organizations. If you're looking for a simplistic cookbook of new-age tips and tricks, this isn't it. But if you're looking for a book that requires some careful reading and thought, and is well worth it, get hold of a copy. No one knows exactly what organizational life will be like in the next decade, but the framework the authors offer will equip any leader or manager to be ready for whatever comes next.
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Beyond Lean Manufacturing and Lean Business,
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This review is from: Lean & Meaningful : A New Culture for Corporate America (Hardcover)
Whether you are the director of manufacturing, an operations manager, or a change agent within your organization, this book is for you. Herman and Gioia reflect on the subtle aspects of the lean organization which are often overlooked in many lean initiatives. "Meaningful" addresses the human conditions surrounding the removal of wasteful processes in the organization, options for a flexible workforce, and advice for management considering a move to lean processes. Also helpful to understand the emerging conditions important to the new workforce of the Generation NeXt, and how to keep those critical knowledge workers supportive in a lean organization.
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A focus on the human elements of companies,
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This review is from: Lean & Meaningful : A New Culture for Corporate America (Hardcover)
For a perspective that focuses entirely on the human components of organic companies, pick up Lean & Meaningful: A New Culture for Corporate America (Oakhill Press, 1998) by Roger E. Herman and Joyce L. Gioia. The authors explore what employees want in an employer, both in terms of benefits (like retirement plans) and atmosphere (like a family-friendly environment). The book also includes an extensive list of resources. CIO Magazine
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