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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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The only thing worse than dating in the era of hookup apps and unsolicited d!ck pics is the absolute whole-life-flail of falling in love.Magnolia Santillian has one year to meet Mr. Right.If she can’t pull it off, her mother has vowed to take over and start playing matchmaker.As much as Magnolia hates the idea of getting back out there after several messy breakups, she doesn’t want her mother sending her on blind dates....

A bookshop romance with a hunky hockey love interest and a pinch of spice from USA Today Bestseller Amy Andrews!✨ Tropes & Themes ✨ ✧ Ice hockey hero ✧ Book shop setting ✧Forced proximity ✧Sweet and spicy ️✧ Opposites Attract✧ Working together A bookshop face-off!NHL hot shot, Nick Hawkeye Hawke has 4 months to recuperate from a potentially career-ending injury. All he has to do is take it easy and keep things low-key. So, looking aft...

“I need us to stay married, Big Guy.”Recently traded to the Chicago Rebels, hockey veteran Dylan “Banks” Bankowski is adjusting to what might be his last team and his final year in the NHL. That means taking care of his battered body while he strives for the one goal that’s managed to elude him: a championship ring. What he does not need is a visit from the woman to whom he gave a different kind of ring months ago.His young, flighty, socia...

A SPICY sports romance from Amy Andrews, perfect for fans of Hannah Grace, Sarah Adams and Liz Tomforde.✨ Tropes & Themes ✨ ✧ Second chances ✧Forced proximity ✧ All the spice ️✧ American football ✧ Reunion ✧ Bad boy A disgraced football star, a high school in need of saving and a reunion too hot to handle.Headteacher Ella Lucas and football star Jake Prince have a very complicated history! Their mind-blowing encounter two years ago is ...

The book club is about to get a makeover...Even if Megan would rather be at the mall, Cassidy is late for hockey practice, Emma's already read every book in existence, and Jess is missing her mother too much to care, the new book club is scheduled to meet every month. But what begins as a mom-imposed ritual of reading Little Women soon helps four unlikely friends navigate the drama of middle school.From stolen journals to secret crushes to a fashion-fiasco first da...

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 ...