J Chris White

Structured for Success

What Leaders Need to Know to Build and Sustain Effective Organizations

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Leadership is not just about reading data points and asserting corresponding action points; it is about designing an organizational structure and culture that directly generates desired performance results. Part of that involves understanding internal controls (such as motivation) versus external controls (such as policies and budgets) and makin

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9781032241890
• ISBN-10: 1032241896
• Artikelnr.: 62952206

Autorenporträt

J. Chris White was born and raised in Dallas, TX and now resides in Rockwall, TX with his wife and two daughters. He holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from MIT (1990) and a M.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Michigan (1992). In addition to his role at ViaSim Solutions, he is currently an Adjunct Instructor at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) and Texas A&M University at Commerce (TAMU-C). Chris has published numerous articles in the fields of leadership, TQM, Six Sigma, project management, strategic management, and simulation.

Inhaltsangabe

Leadership versus management. Structure guides behavior. Positive
(reinforcing) feedback loops. Negative (balancing) feedback loop. The
traditional S curve of performance. The influence of external structures.
The influence of internal structures. An integrated structural model of
human behavior. Finding structural dissonance. Methods for changing human
behavior. Structured for success. Appendix - Computer modeling and
simulation for structural analysis.