Your Company Isn't Fast Enough. Here's How to Change That.

The traditional hierarchical organization is dead, but what replaces it? Numerous new models--the agile organization, the networked organization, and holacracy, to name a few--have emerged, but leaders need to know what really works. How do you build an organization that is responsive to fast-changing markets? What kind of organization delivers both speed and scale, and how do you lead it?

Arthur Yeung and Dave Ulrich provide leaders with a much-needed blueprint for reinventing the organization. Based on their in-depth research at leading Chinese, US, and European firms such as Alibaba, Amazon, DiDi, Facebook, Google, Huawei, Supercell, and Tencent, and drawing from their synthesis of the latest organization research and practice, Yeung and Ulrich explain how to build a new kind of organization (a "market-oriented ecosystem") that responds to changing market opportunities with speed and scale. While other books address individual pieces of the puzzle, Reinventing the Organization offers a practical, integrated, six-step framework and looks at all the decisions leaders need to make--choosing the right strategies, capabilities, structure, culture, management tools, and leadership--to deliver radically greater value in fast-moving markets.

For any leader eager to build a stronger, more responsive organization and for all those in HR, organizational development, and consulting who will shape and deliver it, this book provides a much-needed roadmap for reinvention.

Arthur Yeung is a Senior Management Advisor to Tencent Group, where he leads and facilitates organizational innovation and leadership development. For a decade, he was the Philips Chair Professor of Human Resource Management at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) and taught regularly in executive programs in association with Harvard, INSEAD, and the University of Michigan. Yeung is the founder and president of Y-Triangle Organizational Learning Oasis, a CEO learning consortium that has helped more than two hundred Chinese entrepreneurs and CEOs systematically build organizational capability since 2010. He served previously as Chief Human Resources Officer of Acer Group. He has sat on the board of seven listed companies and has consulted for major corporations in Asia, including Alibaba, JD.com, Mary Kay, Meituan Dianping, TSMC, Tencent, and VIPKID. He is the author of thirteen books and numerous award-winning articles. Dave Ulrich is the Rensis Likert Collegiate Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and a partner at RBL Group (www.rbl.net), a consulting firm focused on helping organizations and leaders deliver value. He has published over thirty books and two hundred articles and book chapters that have shaped current thinking about the ability of leadership to deliver results, of organizations to build capabilities, and of human resources to create value. In 2012 he was recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award by HR magazine for being the "father of modern Human Resources." He has worked with over half of the Fortune 200, has numerous lifetime achievement awards for organization, leadership, and HR work, and is listed in the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame.

Author social media/website info:
Arthur Yeung: ceibs.edu
Dave Ulrich: daveulrich.com, linkedin.com/in/daveulrichpro, rbl.net

Leaders know that as markets and strategies change, organizations must evolve. The traditional hierarchical organization has long been under fire, resulting in numerous new organizational experiments. Leaders need a synthesis of what we know about these emerging models, along with an integrated perspective that can guide practice. What is the new organization, and how does it work?

Arthur Yeung and Dave Ulrich provide that much-needed synthesis and offer leaders a practical, integrated framework for reinventing the organization. They explain how to build a new kind of organization (a "market-oriented ecosystem") that responds to changing market opportunities with speed and scale. While other books address individual pieces of the puzzle, Reinventing the Organization looks at all the decisions leaders need to make--choosing the right strategies, capabilities, structure, culture, management tools, and leadership to deliver radically greater value in fast-moving markets.

Based on their in-depth research at Alibaba, Amazon, DiDi, Facebook, Google, Huawei, Supercell, and Tencent, their experience helping companies transform, and their synthesis of the latest organization research, Yeung and Ulrich:

• Show leaders how to create agile organizations for rapid response to environmental trends and strategic disruptions
• Integrate work from leading Chinese and US firms
• Provide a six-step framework, with guidelines and actions, for reinventing the organization
• Focus on what leaders can do to make the changes in their own organizations
• Include diagnostic tools to assess and improve the new organization