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by Arthur Yeung (Author), Dave Ulrich (Author)
Based on in-depth, inside experience at Tencent, Alibaba, Huawei, DiDi, Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Supercell, two experts on organization and leadership reveal what some of the most innovative organizational models in the world really look like and how they work, and provide leaders with the frameworks and tools for reinventing their organizations.
- Shows leaders how to create customer-centric, innovative, and agile organizations for rapid response to environmental trends and strategic disruptions.
- Integrates work from leading Chinese and US firms to show the global nature of this new organizational form.
- Synthesizes and advances diverse literature that talk about the new organization form for today's work.
- Provides a six-step framework for building a new organization and gives a road map--a set of guidelines and actions--for getting there.
- Focuses on what leaders can do to make the changes in the organization and make the new organization operate at speed and at scale.
- Includes diagnostic tools and practical actions that can be used to assess and improve the new organization.
Audience:
- Leaders who want to create the right organization to respond to market opportunities in today's fast-paced, agile environment.
- Leaders struggling to tear down bureaucracy, but not sure what exactly to replace it with and how.
- Leaders who are curious about some of the big companies in China and how they are really organized and run.
- HR and OD professional.
- Consultants on organization design.
Author Biography
Arthur Yeung is a Senior Management Adviser at Tencent Group, where he leads and facilitates organizational innovation and leadership development. Previously, he was the Philips Chair Professor of Human Resource Management at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) and taught regularly in executive programs in association with Harvard, INSEAD, and the University of Michigan. He also served previously as Chief Human Resources Officer of Acer Group. He is the author of thirteen books and numerous award-winning articles.
Dave Ulrich is the Rensis Likert Collegiate Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and a partner at RBL Group (rbl.net), a consulting firm focused on helping organizations and leaders deliver value. He has published over thirty books and two hundred articles and book chapters. He has worked with over half of the Fortune 200; has numerous lifetime achievement awards for organization, leadership, and HR work; and is listed in the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame.
Visit the authors at:
Arthur Yeung: ceibs.edu
Dave Ulrich: daveulrich.com, linkedin.com/in/daveulrichpro, rbl.net
