I have been working in executive and advisory roles in the industrial world for more than 40 years. In the last 20 years I have consulted for more than 80 operations, in many parts of the world. I have seen countless organisations struggle and fail or at best hovering on the edge of failure for years, with no end in sight. I have read hundreds of book and articles on how to help organisations survive, how to improve organisations and how to go forward.
If you ask me to give you my top ten books on these subjects, "One from Many" by Dee Hock tops the list - with a significant margin.
Dee's search for the better alternative in organisational approach is phenomenal and he writes and tells it both from a deep philosophical as well as practical experiential viewpoint. Few people in the world had the opportunity to experience the struggles and joy of building something really new that functions as fantastic as the VISA International Organisation. The whole world is benefiting from his courage and tenacity to pull off something out of the ordinary; yet few realize the immensity behind it.
His deep questions of: How organisations have been?, How organisations are?, How they might become? and How they ought to be? are much deeper than I thought. Today I realize that these questions are at the heart of the modern day challenges for all of our organisations.
Dee Hock verbalizes the current reality of organisational failure like nobody else and he provides alternatives that have been proven beyond any doubt. He contrasts the world of the old, mechanistic, industrial age, separatist, top-down control organisational model (The world of rule and regulation) with the CHAORDIC - the new, modern age, holistic, systemic, creative organization model (The world op Purpose, Principle and People) in such a way that you simply have to rethink your mental frameworks.
All over the world, new organizational models are emerging, people are reinventing organisations on natural, organic models and that are proving superlative, both for the incumbents, their customers and the world at large.
I have been handing out copies of this book to many friends and will continue to do so.
Thanks Dee, you have given the world a huge gift by sharing your story and you "monkey mind".
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- Raphael SpannocchiReviewed in Germany on November 9, 2018
One of the most important books I read this year
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- Paul A. BeckfordReviewed in the United Kingdom on March 26, 2015
More then work and organisation, a philosophy on how to be a successful human being
- John BlandReviewed in the United Kingdom on November 6, 2010
A good read, but not what it says on the cover
