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Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership
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Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership

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At a time when managers everywhere are seeking strong but sensible ways to reorient their companies for the coming millennium, a new edition of Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership, by Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal, reintroduces the bestselling authors' clear and insightful approach to "big picture" management. Updated examples add to those previously drawn from business, education, health care, and the public sector to help today's leaders prepare more creatively for tomorrow's needs.

 
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Product Details
Author:Lee G. Bolman
Paperback:512 pages
Publisher:Jossey-Bass
Publication Date:August 27, 2003
ISBN:0787964271
Package Length:9.0 inches
Package Width:6.9 inches
Package Height:1.4 inches
Package Weight:1.75 pounds
Average Customer Rating: based on 22 reviews

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5Valuable book, also for social sector administrators  Jun 05, 2008
My prof used it as a required text in the course I took. It's great! Through this book I can understand why things didn't work at my previous work experience at a higher ed. institution. I definitely recommend the book to everyone, including those who work at the social sectors as you'll understand why you need to use politics, pay attention to human resource and organization structure!

4Reframing Organizations is very good!  Jan 27, 2008
Though I had to purchase this book for a leadership class, after reading it, I thought it was very good with lots of useful information.

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3Good reframing  Jan 10, 2008
This book is still very timely, but I also highly recommend "Growing Great Employees" by Erika Andersen as an addition to this book. Growing Great Employees: Turning Ordinary People into Extraordinary Performers

4This book was enlighting!  Jan 03, 2008
I just started management school and this is the first book I had to read. I must say that if nothing else, this book was enlightening! I really liked the way the author broke down any given corporate scenario in 4 different viewpoints.

Personally, I really liked the HR Frame, followed by Political Frame. Those two were the ones I really thought helped me at my work place. The Structural frame, I thought was kind of boring.....nothing to really look forward to. The Symbolic frame really talks about corporate culture; something half the corporate world never thinks about any more!

Wont be bad if you have to read it for your MBA!



5THE reference on organizational theory  Nov 18, 2007
The fact that Reframing Organizations is often used as a university textbook should be a subtle warning that this is not a quick-read or how-to book. However, it is THE overview of the broad practice of organizational theory. Bolman and Deal utilize models based on four different views of the organization to show how to analyse and comprehend the dynamics of organizational structure and function. As a software engineer I found this "multi-model view to understanding" similar to how we model software systems from a variety of perspectives.

While comprehensive, the book is yet readable and accessible to the layperson, and quickly gives the reader a broad understanding of organizational dynamics and structures viewed through the lenses of the four "frames." This book won't give you quick practical fixes for your organizational problems - but it will give you a broad base of understanding for thinking about the problems you face in organizational life and understanding why your organization functions (or dysfunctions!) the way it does.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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