Organizational DNA: Diagnosing Your Organization for Increased Effectiveness

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Summary: STERN'S MANAGEMENT REVIEW FINDS THIS BOOK NOVEL..INTRIGUING!
Review: Profiles four organizational types (fact-based, idea-grounded, context-related, and individual-oriented) and shows how each type leads to variations in the same organizational practices. The authors go on to examine the consequences of appropriate and inappropriate alignments of organizational practices. The discussion covers: methods for attaining alignment; leadership and management issues; and a diagnostic tool to help categorize an organization's type. Four cases are discussed in some detail.

A novel and intriguing approach to the study of organization and an approach to organizational change.