Bücher von Roger Strathausen

Wissen ist ein zentrales Element unternehmerischen Handelns. Nur, wer den Markt kennt und weiß, welche Probleme Kunden haben und wie diese sich mit neuen Produkten und Services lösen lassen, kann erfolgreich agieren.Dieses Buch untersucht die Auswirkungen der Digitalisierung auf die Rolle des Wissens in der Rechtsbranche. In Rechtsabteilungen und Kanzleien wandelt sich Wissen zunehmend von einem statischen Vorrats-Wissen zu einem dynamischen Ad-Hoc-Wissen, das durch den Einsatz von Software-Anwendungen bedarfsgerecht erzeugt wird und dem Erreichen eines bestimmten Zwecks dient. Dabei ist immer der jeweilige Geschäftskontext entscheidend für die Einsicht, was wie zu tun ist.Für Anwälte und alle, die an juristischen Transaktionen in Unternehmen beteiligt sind, bedeutet dies nicht nur, dass sie die allgemeinen Chancen und Risiken der digitalen Transformation kennen müssen. Sie müssen auch verstehen, wie sie neue Technologien dafür nutzen können, ihre eigene Kreativität zu stärken, informierte Entscheidungen zu treffen und im Team kooperativ zu einem gemeinsamen Ziel zu gelangen.

Answer the questions that arise when managers and workersneed to adjust to unfamiliar leadership roles and rules in flattenedorganizational forms. Leading When You'reNot the Boss provides a conceptual framework that you can apply whenassessing your own organizations and work. The book discusses the underlyingideas necessary for a shift from a culture of hierarchies to one ofrelationships and the establishment of intrapreneurial and holistic workenvironments. This book supports the trend in many corporations towardflattening parts of their traditional top-down hierarchical management systemsinto more egalitarian, democratized, and distributed organizational forms. Itanalyzes the weaknesses of "e;management"e; culture at a time of evermore rapid change and complexity in the business world and illustrates howflattened organizational units increase agility, innovation, and efficacy. Moreover, it discusses how individuals can exercise effective leadershipdespite lacking the command-and-control authority of conventional bosses andways for organizations to cultivate effective "e;post-management"e;cultures. Especially in the technology sector, large projects havebecome too complex to be mastered by any single leader. Drawing on hisexperience as a senior manager and executive consultant for a number of FortuneGlobal 500 companies, Roger Strathausen analyzes the situations and benefitsthat motivate companies to adopt flattened organizational forms. He shows thatempowering a multi-talented group to manage itself by horizontal cooperationcan deliver products with more speed, efficiency, innovation, and nimblenessthan a solo boss could, while yielding higher employee productivity andretention rates.With an entertaining mix of real-world examples and anepisodic HBR-style fictitious case study, the author illustrates throughout thebook how his leadership lessons can be serviceable only when intelligentlytailored to the dynamic complexities of specific situations, including thepersonalities and competencies of the people involved. What You'll LearnHow to tailor the techniques of shared leadership to specificbusiness situations rather than treating them as iron rulesHow to flourish in nonhierarchical andambiguously-hierarchical organizational contexts that encourage individualinitiative for the joint benefit of the enterprise and personal professionalgrowthHow success and fulfillment at work are enhanced byorganizational forms in which participants assess the situational relevance oftheir respective talents and actively apply them to group objectives in lateralcooperation with peers, as opposed to passively receiving orders from appointedbosses Who This Book Is ForThe primary readerships for this book are businessleaders and managers at all levels in corporations and non-managerialprofessionals who work in self-directed teams.The secondary readerships are practitioners,consultants, and academics interested in the topics of human resources,organizational design, and the future of work.