Upsizing The Individual In The Downsized Corporation

Managing In The Wake Of Reengineering, Globalization, And Overwhelming Technological Change
by Robert Johansen, Rob Swigart

Nov 27, 1995
Paperback
US $14.00
CAN $20.95
ISBN: 9780201489408
ISBN-10: 0201489406
Published by Basic Books

 

Description

Upsizing the Individual in the Downsized Organization tells managers not only how to survive today’s business turbulence, but how to structure companies large and small for a global, wired environment. As technology creates a world in which work must be done anytime and anyplace, a company’s competitive edge will be how it interconnects its people. Johansen and Swigart explain their model of a flexible “fishnet organization: to help managers meet this daunting challenge.

Reviews

“Not just how to survive, but how to thrive in the flattened business organization.”
— Denver Post

“A ‘big-think’ book.… The authors insist there is life after downsizing—just a different, and possibly better, one. They foresee flexible structures of ad hoc hierarchies in which individuals collaborate to hone the ‘cooperative edge.’”
— Industry Week

“Johansen and Swigart go beyond hand-wringing to prepare all workers (management and labor) for the time when ‘anytime/anyplace’ work done by quickfix, cross-culture business teams becomes the norm.… Excellent advice.”
— Louisville Courier-Journal

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World Excluding UK & Commonwealth