My Steam Engine is Broken
- 3h 35m
- Jonathan Gifford, Mark Powell
- LID Publishing
- 2015
The typical structure of today's corporate organization was essentially invented in the nineteenth century and based deliberately on the military's command and control model and on the hierarchical pyramid of the Catholic Church. As such, it is outmoded and not equipped to deliver corporate success in the 21st century. My Steam Engine is Broken calls on a new generation of organizational leaders to stop trying to fix a broken and outmoded structure, and to create new, successful working structures that work with, not against, people's natural modes of behavior. The authors explore the way in which the Steam Engine organizational model is no longer offering job satisfaction to its managers precisely (and paradoxically) because managers are not being enabled, and are often being prevented, from delivering what the organization most needs from them: self-direction, innovation, leadership and heartfelt commitment.
About the Authors
Mark Powell is a Partner at leading management consultancy firm AT Kearney
Jonathan Gifford is a business coach and writer.
In this Book
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MY STEAM ENGINE IS BROKEN
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Preface
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Introduction—My steam engine is broken—why the organization is no longer fit for purpose
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Learning to Let Go: How Control is Killing the Organization
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What Gets Measured is What Gets Done—But Are We Measuring the Right Things?
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Lose the Fruit Bowl: When “Efficiency” Masks Lack of Ambition
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The Innovation Committee: Be Disruptive: You Have Two Hours
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Everybody’s Talkin’ at Me: I Don’t Hear a Word They’re Saying
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A Waste of Space: Making the Workspace Work
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In Praise of Anarchy: Why Corporate Democracy is Not the Answer
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You’re the Leader: Now Find 100 More Leaders
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Don’t Do Networking: Be Networked
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Increasing the Gene Pool: Why Diversity is Everything and Monoculture is No Culture At All
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Getting Emotional: The Emotionally Healthy Organization
