Built to Change: How to Achieve Sustained Organizational Effectiveness

Built to Change: How to Achieve Sustained Organizational Effectiveness

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In this groundbreaking book, organizational effectiveness experts Edward Lawler and Christopher Worley show how organizations can be €œbuilt to change€ so they can last and succeed in today€s global economy. Instead of striving to create a highly reliable Swiss watch that consistently produces the same behavior, they argue organizations need to be designed in ways that stimulate and facilitate change. <i>Built to Change</i> focuses on identifying practices and designs that organizations can adopt so that they are able to change. As Lawler and Worley point out, organizations that foster continuous change <ul> <li>Are closely connected to their environments</li> <li>Reward experimentation</li> <li>Learn about new practices and technologies</li> <li>Commit to continuously improving performance</li> <li>Seek temporary competitive advantages</li> </ul>