Transforming the Way We Work: The Power of the Collaborative Workplace

By Edward M. Marshall

Book Overview

This guide examines how to replace the outdated, inefficient albatross of hierarchy with a new "culture of collaboration". It shows how to understand and apply a revolutionary process for changing the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814402550
• ISBN13: 9780814402559
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Amacom Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

It DOES work!

The reviewer that wrote: "This book isent even worthy for kindling. "Ed Marshel" Must know knothing about Management let alone 1st Grade grammer." should check his own grammer, not to mention spelling! We DID implement Edward Marshall's principles and saw a dramatic improvement. Our productivity rose significantly and the employees were significantly happier. It CAN and DOES work. We've been practicing his approach for nearly 5 years and would never return to the old obsolete practices of yesterday. It is obvious that some can only criticize but are clueless as to the implementation of proven ideas! Read it! Practice it! Benefit from it!

A Collaborative Workplace=Worker Ownership=Business Success

In today's business environment, with outstanding information systems, and unlimited information available in which to make decisions-two things are critical-predicting the future and how to affect continuous change, through people, simultaneously. As Peter Drucker put it "The best way to predict the future is to create it." This book Marshall is an outstanding read. As identified in this book-70% of all our problems in business are people-related or culturally based-in my opinion-I don't believe you can separate the two. However, Marshall tells us our job is to engage that culture (people) so that its best values emerge and flourish. In order to accomplish these tasks "the collaborative environment must be established". Two of my favorite business leaders are Jack Welch and Sam Walton. They predicted their future by creating it-the company culture-feedback-focus on the vision-and betting their organizations future and success on allowing their employees to participate and take ownership of their key processes. A great read!