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The Practice of Managerial Leadership
The Practice of Managerial Leadership describes the comprehensive, science-based set of principles and practices called Requisite Organization, developed by Dr. Elliott Jaques and his colleagues through consulting research work over 55 years in 15 countries. Nancy Lee worked with Dr. Jaques for more than 20 years. The book is written for managers at all levels and is focused on the managerial role because this is where guidelines are most needed to accomplish the goals of the organization. The use of these ideas results in increased productivity and profitability, enhances trust and provides employees with a healthy working environment conducive to personal growth.
"His thinking was a monumental reformulation of the basis of human capacity and organizational structure, reflected in thirty books. Jaques not only posited different levels of conceptual thinking among human beings but also elaborated the curves of that thinking over an adult lifetime. In turn, his conceptualization gave rise to a new logic for organizational structure, an area that had had no logic for organizational leadership and accountability.
"Jaques' work requires readers to take the necessary time to grasp his innovation. It also requires radical change in how executives are chosen and companies are organized. Like all new thinking his work necessitates testing the applications in one's own organization.
"But grasping complexity need not be an overwhelming task. In this book Nancy Lee, herself an organizational consultant long immersed in Jaques' conceptualization efforts, has made his thinking much easier to grasp. That, in turn, should make this volume, highly useful to executives, consultants and graduate students who seek to make organizations more effective."
Dr. Harry Levinson, Emeritus Clinical Professor of Psychology at
Harvard Medical School has provided a brief background on Dr. Jaques.
"His thinking was a monumental reformulation of the basis of human capacity and organizational structure, reflected in thirty books. Jaques not only posited different levels of conceptual thinking among human beings but also elaborated the curves of that thinking over an adult lifetime. In turn, his conceptualization gave rise to a new logic for organizational structure, an area that had had no logic for organizational leadership and accountability.
"Jaques' work requires readers to take the necessary time to grasp his innovation. It also requires radical change in how executives are chosen and companies are organized. Like all new thinking his work necessitates testing the applications in one's own organization.
"But grasping complexity need not be an overwhelming task. In this book Nancy Lee, herself an organizational consultant long immersed in Jaques' conceptualization efforts, has made his thinking much easier to grasp. That, in turn, should make this volume, highly useful to executives, consultants and graduate students who seek to make organizations more effective."
Dr. Harry Levinson, Emeritus Clinical Professor of Psychology at
Harvard Medical School has provided a brief background on Dr. Jaques.
418 pages, Hardcover
First published May 18, 2007
About the author
Nancy R. Lee
42 books2 followersNancy R. Lee, M.B.A., is President of Social Marketing Services, Inc., in Seattle, Washington, a teaching associate at the University of Washington where she teaches social marketing in the public health and public administration programs, and a strategic advisor for social marketing campaigns at C+C in Seattle, a communications firm. She also teaches, through the International Social Marketing Association, an online course Introduction to Social Marketing Certificate Course. She can be reached at nancyrlee@msn.com.
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March 1, 2019
This book, written by Nancy Lee is the required compass to navigate the theoretical and practical corpus of knowledge exposed by Elliott Jaques with its strong consistency and science- based foundation it is at the same time a large piece of art that demands sustained efforts to deeply capture its complexity and beauty. Consequently, the clarity of this text turns into a needed guide to enlighten the pathway to managers, workers, consultants, professors and graduates in this purpose.
This book is for those that need:
To find a handbook of science-based management.
To account with a practical guide that bring support and confidence.
To know a complete range of management systems.
To learn how to create a required organization according to the nature of work to be done.
To get knowledge of first hand experiences.
To assess the organization's current situation.
To engage in the process of organizational change.
To look at the system in order to fix the organizational problems.
To solve practical problems of implementation as compensation, succession and talent pool development.
To take lessons and insights based on the author's consulting work.
To make use of professional sources in managerial systems.
To understand the body of Stratified Systems Theory/Requisite Organization and the method of implementation.
To improve outcomes in productivity and profitability.
To increase competitive advantage adjusting the managerial system.
To find in an accessible language the content of seven key subjects, two case studies, an extensive reflexion on managerial work, a detailed glossary and useful links.
To realize that hold health organizations will be possible in the near future.
This book is for those that need:
To find a handbook of science-based management.
To account with a practical guide that bring support and confidence.
To know a complete range of management systems.
To learn how to create a required organization according to the nature of work to be done.
To get knowledge of first hand experiences.
To assess the organization's current situation.
To engage in the process of organizational change.
To look at the system in order to fix the organizational problems.
To solve practical problems of implementation as compensation, succession and talent pool development.
To take lessons and insights based on the author's consulting work.
To make use of professional sources in managerial systems.
To understand the body of Stratified Systems Theory/Requisite Organization and the method of implementation.
To improve outcomes in productivity and profitability.
To increase competitive advantage adjusting the managerial system.
To find in an accessible language the content of seven key subjects, two case studies, an extensive reflexion on managerial work, a detailed glossary and useful links.
To realize that hold health organizations will be possible in the near future.
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