Requisite Organization: A Total System for Effective Managerial Organization and Managerial Leadership for the 21st Century : Amended

by Elliott Jaques

Built upon a rigorous theoretical base, Stratified Systems Theory, Requisite Organization relates all aspects of leadership, work and human resources in a unified total system.

Genres: Business, Management, Leadership, Nonfiction

288 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1989

Reviews

[Jurgen Appelo · Rating 2 out of 5]

I couldn't finish this book. It is full of old-fashioned management 1.0 thinking. Examples: The higher the manager the better his capabilities should be. Managers are the only ones qualified to do performance appraisals. Only managers should be allowed to hire people. Etc...

My biggest problem with the book is that it claims to be based on science, which is nonsense. The insights from complexity science and systems thinking reveal totally different needs. For example, the author claims we need accurate definitions of terminology in business, just like in physics. But from science we know this to be impossible. The more complex the system the fuzzier the terminology will be. There's no way around that. Terminology in social systems is necessarily the fuzziest.

I give the book 2 stars because there are a few quotes that I liked. For example, "We can agree to be creative and innovative. But the question is how to create the conditions to make it possible to be so." That's one of the few pieces of text I could agree with.

Oh, and the style of writing is terrible. The text consist of nearly a billion bullet points.

[Sanggita Trisna · Rating 5 out of 5]

:: Want to reduce turnover, eliminate micromanaging, improve leadership and staff development, increase productivity, increase employee and managerial satisfaction, achieve organizational goals, and more? Read this book. Follow its directives. :)

[Denis Vasilev · Rating 4 out of 5]

Провокационная книга по менеджменту. Где еще сейчас можно прочесть что твое место в человеческой иерархии с рождения отмечено определенными рамками.

[Darwin Mott · Rating 5 out of 5]

No executive in business or government should be taken seriously unless they are armed with this book. It is a beacon to realizing economic development and trust-inducing workplaces. It represents the true beginnings of the end of management alchemy.

[Lori Montgomery · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent concepts. Technical and practical.

[Aclendenen]

Wish this was required every year in school.

[Aclendenen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this now!