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The Power of Management

Michael McMaster & Adrian Brown challenge top global consulting firms with radical new approach to organising for corporate success. Available now on Amazon.

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Introducing Our Community - based on the Transformative Series

STORIES FROM THE EDGE

Never before has there been so much potential and yet so little innovation. We are emerging from the information era and entering the intelligence era and we need new language of leadership and management to leverage the untapped potential.

For a business, this means creating a new balance between freedom and control. This requires:

Defining new roles for the Executive, Management and the Workforce.
Establishing a new code of Clean Leadership.
Creating platforms with minimalist rules from the core to the Edge.

Each book in the series builds on the former to create a detailed roadmap to establish the right conditions so that the future you desire can become a reality.

Mike and Adrian don’t pretend to be futurologists who can predict what’s going to happen next – far more important, they share how to be ready for it… and how to be among those influencing that future, rather than reacting to it.

____ Matt Thomas co-founded Smarta.com & on the judging panel for The Business Book Awards.

“The Power of Organisation is music to my ears”, writes Deri Llewellyn-Davies, the author and creator of BGI Strategy on a Page. “I created the one page plan to help combat the speed and acceleration in the business world. These books address the human element of business and are a guide and framework for addressing the paradox of being in control whilst giving your people the freedom to be innovative.

____ Deri ap John Llewellyn-Davies, Visionary CEO and board advisor.

At last, business books that aren’t ‘about’ business…
Instead, business books that are ‘for’ business…

For where business is right now and where it needs to go next.
That will empower managers and leaders to create the meaningful organisational changes and continuous innovation their businesses are going to need to survive.

____Matt Thomas co-founded Smarta.com & on the judging panel for The Business Book Awards.

“We fail to realise the potential of organisations until we see them as organisms in their own right. Intelligence is the source of an organisation’s capacity for survival... illuminating ideas on organisational design, away from much of the mechanistic thinking of recent management theory.”

____ Arie de Geus, former Executive at Shell Petroleum

PURPOSE OF THE SERIES

The elements that need to change are all influenced by Organisation Design. To get the best results you need to start small, master the process and then replicate it. This series builds into a vital companion for the journey.

The vast majority of consulting interventions fail. Not because of any fault on the part of the executive or management, but because the design of the organisation prevented a successful outcome.

Personal development is vital to develop the individual skills of everyone in the organisation, but that in itself does not transform the organisation.

To achieve true organisational transformation you have to operate at the level of organisation. Not the physical entity, but the organisation of coordinated action that brings about extraordinary results.

This series explores each element of the design of organisation to help you bring them together in your organisation into a design that serves your vision, purpose and values.

Purpose of Our Community

"Nothing changes until something changes"

Dialogue

Any new idea starts with dialogue, a type of conversation that is for possibility and innovation. This community is a platform for dialogue and discovery through dialogue.

Connection

Nothing happens in isolation so our community brings people and ideas together on our platform. There are simple rules to follow enabling members to make new connections.

Relationship

Relationships are for specific purposes and have specific dynamics. The purpose of relationships on our platform is discovery and the dynamics are respect and integrity

Follow Our Journey

This series of books map out a journey to a new type of organisation. As a member of our community, you will receive regular updates and have access to Mike and Adrian. You will be able to join regular dialogue sessions by invitation.

These dialogue sessions, which are free to members, are an opportunity to share and discuss our latest research and thinking about the future of organisation design. This new future will emerge and by being part of this community not only will you benefit from the dialogue, connection and relationship, you will also be participating and contributing to a future that as yet does not exist.

A future where "work is a worthwhile experience for all".

The Power of Organisation