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The Leader's Guide to Radical Management



Organizations today face a crisis. The crisis is of long standing and its signs are widespread. Productivity is one-quarter of 1965 levels. Innovation continues to decline. Workers are disgruntled. Customers are frustrated. Brands are unraveling. Executive turnover is accelerating. In the last 25 years, startups created 40 million jobs in the US, while established firms created almost none. Traditional management is broken.

Most proposals for improving management address one element of the crisis at the expense of the others. The principles described by award-winning author Stephen Denning simultaneously inspire high productivity, continuous innovation, deep job satisfaction and client delight.

Radical management is a fundamentally different approach to management, with seven inter-locking principles of continuous innovation: focusing the entire organization on delighting clients; working in self-organizing teams; operating in client-driven iterations; delivering value to clients with each iteration; fostering radical transparency; nurturing continuous self-improvement and communicating interactively. In sum, the principles comprise a new mental model of management.


To read the preface and introduction of The Leader's Guide to Radical Management, go here



Listen to a FREE conversation with Steve Denning and Seth Kahan recorded on March 15, 2010

in which Steve discusses the elements of radical management (mp3, 5 megs, 15 minutes)

Participate in an interactive workshop on radical management in Washington DC on May 27-28, 2010 with Steve Denning and Seth Kahan. For full details, go here