Adaptive Capacity: How Organizations Can Thrive in a Changing World

by Juan Carlos Eichholz

In today's business world, change of many kinds - technological, economic, social and environmental - is outpacing the ability of organizations to predict it and manage it. As a result, the single most important capacity any company can develop is the power to adapt to change, and to do so rapidly, intelligently and effectively. In this new paperback edition of Adaptive Capacity, a business consultant and acclaimed professor offers a compelling analysis of the adaptive challenge. Through vivid examples involving organizations ranging from HP and Google to Telefonica and the US Marines, Eichholz provides a set of practical tools and ideas any leader can begin using immediately to succeed in a changing world.

Genres: Business, Leadership

250 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 16, 2014

Reviews

[Patrick Verdonk · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book has done a few things for me:

First, it puts an end to the discussion if Culture eats Strategy for breakfast (or lunch) or the other way around: you need both (and Purpose, Structure, and Talent)

Second, it provides one of the best explanations I have read about Purpose. Not just the need to have it, but as well the variables that influence it, why and how.

Third, it has opened my mind about 'Resilience'. The definition of Resilience assumes a recovery from difficulties. In the past century that meant bouncing back, fighting off competition to go back to 'business as usual' as fast as possible. With the speed of change in the 21st century, bouncing back means you end up in a vacuum. By the time you bounced back, the 'business as usual' simply doesn't exist anymore. I find the term Adaptive Capacity, adapting 'forward' to the next reality a great term for the 21st century businesses.

[Sergio · Rating 4 out of 5]

Muy buen libro sobre management. Recomendable para quienes buscan contribuir en la transformación de organizaciones

[Jonathan Franco · Rating 4 out of 5]

Buen libro, presenta buenos ejemplos para entender las propuestas del autor. No es fácil tomar todo por sentado, puede ser mucha teoría, pero tiene puntos y enseñanzas interesantes.

[Julian Antonio · Rating 5 out of 5]

Es el libro que todo personal de empresa debería leer