How Organizations Should Work

Envisioning a High-Performing Organization Made of a Network of Internal Entrepreneurs

By: N. Dean Meyer

Narrated by: Ellen Campbell

Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins

Publisher's summary

Document your leadership vision, then transform your organization into it...and leave the legacy of an organization that performs brilliantly now and long after you've moved on.

If you're a transformational leader, this is your handbook. It has it all:

• A detailed vision (blueprint) of the end-state operating model—to help you craft and communicate your own vision. 
• All the mechanics—solid principles of design and clear frameworks to help you design your organization in a fact-based manner. 
• Implementation processes—participative processes that engage your leadership team in designing your organization. 
• A case study. 
• Perspectives on key leadership issues—scalability, innovation, acquisitions integration, digital business, and leadership. 
• A book summary (akin to Cliff's Notes ®).

From two foundational principles—internal entrepreneurship and empowerment—Meyer derives every detail of how organizations of all types and sizes should work. This "Market Organization" is a comprehensive blueprint of a high-performing organization. Paradoxically, it's common sense, and yet it's also profound.

The Market Organization applies to all industries, including government and not-for-profits. It applies to organizations of all sizes and stages of growth, starting with ventures where it can build scalable organizations with mature processes while retaining their entrepreneurial spirit, on up to multinationals where it breaks the paradox of localization and global synergies. 

And this operating model applies to departments (such as IT) as well as entire companies. Throughout this book, the word organization refers to either an entire enterprise or a department within it. 

To implement that vision, this book provides the tool kit: organizational structure; resource-governance processes; culture; and metrics. For each of these "programmable" organizational systems, it provides clear principles and comprehensive frameworks. 

It also provides step-by-step implementation processes that you can use to drive organizational transformations. Incorporating the fundamentals of change management, they're designed to engage your leadership team, tap their collective wisdom, build their deep understanding, and gain their buy-in. 

While organizational design can easily get complex and academic, this book is none of that. It explains how things work in a straightforward manner, and its conversational approach makes this content-rich book an easy listen. 

If you are a visionary leader or are interested in developing a high-performing organization, this book can be your inspiration as well as your pragmatic guide.

©2022 N. Dean Meyer and Associates Inc. (P)2022 N. Dean Meyer and Associates Inc.

Aprendizaje continuo

Es un libro donde uno puede aprender muchas características de organizaciones y entender cómo funcionan, es recomendable empaparse antes de una empresa actual para lograr entenderlo al 100.

It’s provocative thinking, but not adapted to audio

It’s hard to listen as: many titles are constantly announced breaking the rhythm. Plus plenty of references not included into audio book.

Not meant to be an audiobook

This was pretty much unlistenable. The subject did not lend itself to an audiobook. Really really bad.

This opus is a gift to all of us

The author’s passion shines in the detail of the story and his expertise shines in the attention to detail he presents. This book provides the recipe for success for creating the best conditions possible for any business. Dean’s practical approach with an executable level of detail is unmatched in this genre. Get the book, sit down and start taking control of your future.