Richard Barrett "Building a Values-Driven Organization: A Whole System Approach to Cultural Transformation"
Butterworth-Heinemann (2006-03-15) | ISBN 0750679743 | 280 Pages | PDF | 1.1 Mb
Richard Barrett, author of the best-selling book Liberating the Corporate Soul, presents his new thinking Based on his experience working with over 1,000 organizations in 32 countries on cultural transformation for the values-driven organization. He presents a whole system approach to cultural transformation, showing organizations how they can change their culture to become values-driven organizations that support their employees, their customers, their partners, their leaders, and ultimately drive effectiveness and profit.
*New thinking from best-selling author on the value-driven organization
*Integrates cutting-edge technologies available to companies on the web
*Integrates many methodologies into a whole system approach to cultural transformation
One of the many things that impressed me about Richard’s last book, Liberating the Corporate Soul: Building a Visionary Organization, was the epigraph written by the late Willis Harman, who was co-founder of the World Business Academy.Willis wrote:
Business has become the most powerful institution on the planet. The dominant institution in any society needs to take responsibility for the whole. But business has not had such a tradition. This is a new role, not well understood or accepted. Built on the concept of capitalism and free
enterprise from the beginning was the assumption that the actions of the many units of individual enterprise, responding to market forces and guided by the “invisible hand” of Adam Smith, would somehow add up to desirable outcomes. But in the last decade of the twentieth century, it has become clear that the “invisible hand” is faltering. It depended on a
consensus of overarching meanings and values that is no longer present.
So business now has to adopt a tradition it has never had throughout the entire history of capitalism: to share responsibility for the whole. Every decision that is made, every action that is taken, must be viewed in light
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