{"product_id":"leading-when-youre-not-the-roger-strathausen-9781484217474","title":"Leading When You're Not the Boss: How to Get Things Done in Complex Corporate Cultures","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnswer the questions that arise when managers and workers need to adjust to unfamiliar leadership roles and rules in flattened organizational forms. \u003ci\u003eLeading When You're Not the Boss\u003c\/i\u003e provides a conceptual framework that you can apply when assessing your own organizations and work. The book discusses the underlying ideas necessary for a shift from a culture of hierarchies to one of relationships and the establishment of intrapreneurial and holistic work environments. \u003c\/p\u003e This book supports the trend in many corporations toward flattening parts of their traditional top-down hierarchical management systems into more egalitarian, democratized, and distributed organizational forms. It analyzes the weaknesses of \"management\" culture at a time of ever more rapid change and complexity in the business world and illustrates how flattened organizational units increase agility, innovation, and efficacy. Moreover, it discusses how individuals can exercise effective leadership despite lacking the command-and-control authority of conventional bosses and ways for organizations to cultivate effective \"post-management\" cultures.  \u003cp\u003eEspecially in the technology sector, large projects have become too complex to be mastered by any single leader. Drawing on his experience as a senior manager and executive consultant for a number of Fortune Global 500 companies, Roger Strathausen analyzes the situations and benefits that motivate companies to adopt flattened organizational forms. He shows that empowering a multi-talented group to manage itself by horizontal cooperation can deliver products with more speed, efficiency, innovation, and nimbleness than a solo boss could, while yielding higher employee productivity and retention rates.\u003c\/p\u003e With an entertaining mix of real-world examples and an episodic HBR-style fictitious case study, the author illustrates throughout the book how his leadership lessons can be serviceable only when intelligently tailored to the dynamic complexities of specific situations, including the personalities and competencies of the people involved.  \u003cp\u003eWhat You'll Learn\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to tailor the techniques of shared leadership to specific business situations rather than treating them as iron rules\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to flourish in nonhierarchical and ambiguously-hierarchical organizational contexts that encourage individual initiative for the joint benefit of the enterprise and personal professional growth\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow success and fulfillment at work are enhanced by organizational forms in which participants assess the situational relevance of their respective talents and actively apply them to group objectives in lateral cooperation with peers, as opposed to passively receiving orders from appointed bosses\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWho This Book Is For\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe primary readerships for this book are business leaders and managers at all levels in corporations and non-managerial professionals who work in self-directed teams.\u003c\/p\u003e The secondary readerships are practitioners, consultants, and academics interested in the topics of human resources, organizational design, and the future of work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roger Strathausen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1484217470\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781484217474\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Apress\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/27\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.31d","brand":"Roger Strathausen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48518638764287,"sku":"9781484217474","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6603db8e-a1de-44c9-a337-d5287d422188.jpg?v=1778735075","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/leading-when-youre-not-the-roger-strathausen-9781484217474","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}