Three Pillars of Organization and Leadership in Disruptive Times: Navigating Your Company Successfully Through the 21st Century Business World
- 5h 27m
- Frank Kühn, Michael Kempf, Peter Wollmann
- Springer
- 2019
This book, written by an interdisciplinary team of authors, explores the transformation of organizations in today’s volatile, uncertain, and ambiguous (VUCA) world. It demonstrates the need to manage organizations in a dynamic way, and to revisit and in some cases reinvent working and leadership styles that seemed appropriate during past decades and centuries. In turn, the book puts forward a model based on three distinct pillars of organization and leadership to suit disruptive times: the concepts of 'Sustainable Purpose', 'Travelling Organization', and 'Connecting Resources'. These pillars challenge many of our traditional organizational patterns and meet the need for effective transformative approaches.
About the Authors
Peter Wollmann has been acting as program director for global transformations within Zurich Insurance Company (ZIC) and as a senior mentor, sparring partner, and catalyst for leaders in new roles and responsibilities and for organizations. His experience bases on a broad career over 38 years in diverse project/program roles at a global scale, or line management roles like leading Project Portfolio Management, Strategic Business Development and Strategic Planning & Controlling units in ZIC, Deutsche Bank Insurance Group and Deutscher Herold. Peter has a degree in mathematics and physics from the University of Bonn (Germany). He is author and publisher of diverse books and articles around strategy, leadership and project and project portfolio management. He additionally founded and leads a wine business start-up named VinAuthority.
Frank Kühn has been facilitating projects on transformation, organization and leadership for over 25 years. His work connects experience, future thinking, and getting into rapid action with the people. His latest project involved building a Business Unit 4.0, transition of a bank towards agile working, customer-centered re-organization of an HR unit, and development of rapid product development processes. Frank graduated in engineering and received his doctorate in work science. After leadership experience in research and industry, he was a partner at HLP in Frankfurt (Germany) and ICG Integrated Consulting Group in Berlin (Germany) and Graz (Austria). Currently, he is a self-employed consultant, business partner of ICG and associated with further development and project partners.
Michael U. Kempf has been an experienced management consultant for over 20 years. The driving force of his professional activities is his strong ambition to design processes and organizations in a sustainable manner. It is a particular pleasure for him to identify key challenges, to diagnose complex relationships and to assist in shaping the future. Gaining experience and learning something new are indispensable parts of his life, that is why he likes to seize new chances: on his way from carpentry to studies in social work, education and business administration, in various jobs in social work; during 10 years as manager (HR and logistics) in industrial and retail companies and since 1998 in consulting people, leadership teams as well as working teams and organizations that are all very different. Michael has co-authored several publications in the field of leadership and organizational development.
In this Book
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Chapter 1: Why and How the Three-Pillar Model has Become a Reality
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Chapter 2: Disruptive Times and Need for Action
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Chapter 3: Three Pillars of Organization and Leadership
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Chapter 4: Model Testing via a Case Study
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Chapter 5: Practice Clusters of this Book
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Chapter 6: The Concept of Purpose, Travelling, and Connectivity: Three Pillars of Organization and Leadership
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Chapter 7: Leadership Creating Organizational, Interactional, and Individual Impact
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Chapter 8: Purpose, Journey Thinking, and Connectivity People to People in Global Companies
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Chapter 9: How Established Companies can Move to the Next Level by Using the Three Pillar Model
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Chapter 10: The Art of Travelling in Films: The Road Movie 303
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Chapter 11: Modern Architecture Supporting Organization Design
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Chapter 12: Project Portfolio Management of Global Enterprises
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Chapter 13: Design and Impact of Interventions in Change Processes
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Chapter 14: From Well-Engineered Products to Customer-Centred Solutions
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Chapter 15: An International Art Project on Freedom
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Chapter 16: Connectivity and Personality
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Chapter 17: Developing Connectivity, Leadership, and Effective Team Working Using the Working Styles Model
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Chapter 18: Angel Investing and Connectivity
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Chapter 19: Connectivity Challenges in the Pharmaceutical Industry: A Case Study
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Chapter 20: Purpose, Journey Thinking, and Connectivity in Large Global Consultancies
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Chapter 21: Revisiting Shared Governance at a Community College in the USA
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Chapter 22: Learning and Development in the Organizations of the Future
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Chapter 23: Training of Journey Capabilities
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Chapter 24: A Striking Analogy: Journey Thinking, Connectivity and Wine, Spirits and Special Pairings
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Chapter 25: How the Three-Pillar Model can be Applied in Practice
