Three Pillars of Organization and Leadership in Disruptive Times: Navigating Your Company Successfully Through the 21st Century Business World (Future of Business and Finance)

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Why and How the Three-Pillar Model Has Become a Reality (Peter Wollmann, Frank Kühn, Michael Kempf)....Pages 3-4 Disruptive Times and Need for Action (Peter Wollmann, Frank Kühn, Michael Kempf)....Pages 5-10 Three Pillars of Organization and Leadership (Peter Wollmann, Frank Kühn, Michael Kempf)....Pages 11-13 Model Testing via a Case Study (Peter Wollmann, Frank Kühn, Michael Kempf)....Pages 15-21 Practice Clusters of This Book (Peter Wollmann, Frank Kühn, Michael Kempf)....Pages 23-24 Front Matter ....Pages 25-25 The Concept of Purpose, Travelling, and Connectivity: Three Pillars of Organization and Leadership (Frank Kühn, Michael Kempf, James Chamberlain)....Pages 27-39 Leadership Creating Organizational, Interactional, and Individual Impact (Isabell Huschka)....Pages 41-52 Purpose, Journey Thinking, and Connectivity People to People in Global Companies (Fernando Sanabria)....Pages 53-67 How Established Companies Can Move to the Next Level by Using the Three Pillar Model (Reto Püringer)....Pages 69-79 The Art of Travelling in Films: The Road Movie 303 (Peter Wollmann)....Pages 81-87 Modern Architecture Supporting Organization Design (Peter Wollmann, Mersida Ndrevataj)....Pages 89-96 Front Matter ....Pages 97-97 Project Portfolio Management of Global Enterprises (Peter Wollmann)....Pages 99-108 Design and Impact of Interventions in Change Processes (Peter Wollmann)....Pages 109-118 From Well-Engineered Products to Customer-Centred Solutions (Frank Kühn)....Pages 119-130 An International Art Project on Freedom (Alfred Mevissen)....Pages 131-138 Front Matter ....Pages 139-139 Connectivity and Personality (Hannspeter Schmidt)....Pages 141-146 Developing Connectivity, Leadership, and Effective Team Working Using the Working Styles Model (Bernadette Cass)....Pages 147-159 Angel Investing and Connectivity (Alberto Casagrande)....Pages 161-171 Connectivity Challenges in the Pharmaceutical Industry: A Case Study (Marie Schmidt)....Pages 173-180 Purpose, Journey Thinking, and Connectivity in Large Global Consultancies (Nicole Hoenig de Locarnini)....Pages 181-193 Revisiting Shared Governance at a Community College in the USA (Sharon Lalla)....Pages 195-203 Front Matter ....Pages 205-205 Learning and Development in the Organizations of the Future (Bob Dignen, Tim Burmeister)....Pages 207-232 Training of Journey Capabilities (Volker Hische)....Pages 233-248 A Striking Analogy: Journey Thinking, Connectivity and Wine, Spirits and Special Pairings (Christal Lalla)....Pages 249-256 Front Matter ....Pages 257-257 How the Three-Pillar Model Can Be Applied in Practice (Peter Wollmann, Frank Kühn, Michael Kempf)....Pages 259-264