WINNER: NYC Big Book Award 2025 - Business: GeneralHow can you redesign your operating model to drive growth, agility and sustainability in a changing economy?***Rethinking Operating Models, edited***by Kent McMillan, Greg Kesler and Amy Kates is a practical guide for managers, department heads and organization design and development leads seeking to adapt structures, processes and capabilities to ...

Designing Your Organization is a hands-on guide that provides managers with a set of practical tools to use when making organization design decisions. Based on Jay Galbraith’s widely used Star Model, the book covers the fundamentals of organization design and offers frameworks and tools to help leaders execute their strategy. The authors address the five specific design challenges that confront most of today’s organizations:· Designing around the customer· Organizi...

While technology and geopolitical forces change the face of business today, the patterns and challenges of organizing humans to work together across organization, culture, language and time zone boundaries remain. To face these challenges, all organizations need to be agile, networked and scalable.Networked, Scaled, and Agile reveals how to shape organizations that will enable people to make faster and better decisions in a more c...

Praise for Leading Organization Design"Sheds light on the challenges of organization design in a complex enterprise and more importantly provides an insightful and practical roadmap for business decisions."-Randy MacDonald, SVP, human resources, IBM"Designing organizations for performance can be a daunting task. Kesler and Kates have done an admirable job distilling the inherent complexity of the design process into manageab...

Which business structures are best suited to the unpredictable 21st century? How can a business reconfigure itself with minimum disruption and maximum impact?Every executive grapples with problems of restructuring--and most need hands-on guidance to solve them. Based on Jay Galbraith’s world-renowned approach to organization design and featuring a broad selection of practical tips and tools developed by Diane Downey and Amy Kates, Designing Dynamic Organization...

Five practical steps to enhance organization effectiveness on a global scaleBridging Organization Design and Performance is a handbook for leaders looking to enhance the success of their organizations and themselves. Companies that compete globally require organizational operating models as robust as their strategies. Many companies have created elegant designs and consider their worldwide, matrix organizations sources of competitive advantage. However, th...

I would like to shine a torch upon the natural beauty we should love and protect in the world. I offer readers glimpses of a spiritual nature within my written pictures and scenes that enlighten imaginations and transport them to a more finely tuned inner world, balanced between escapism of dreams and a healthy sense of reality.

On July 9, 1883, twenty men stormed the jail in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, kidnapped Henderson Lee, a black man charged with larceny, and hanged him. Events like this occurred thousands of times across the American South in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, yet we know scarcely more about any of these other victims than we do about Henderson Lee. Drawing on new sources to provide the most comprehensive portrait of the men and women lynched in the American South, Amy Bail...