Michael Kempf – författare

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This book, written by an interdisciplinary team of authors, explores the transformation of organizations in today’s volatile, uncertain, and ambiguous (VUCA) world. It demonstrates the need to manage organizations in a dynamic way, and to revisit and in some cases reinvent working and leadership styles that seemed appropriate during past decades and centuries. In turn, the book puts forward a model based on three distinct pillars of organization and leadership to suit disruptive times: the concepts of ''Sustainable Purpose'', ''Travelling Organization'', and ''Connecting Resources''. These pillars challenge many of our traditional organizational patterns and meet the need for effective transformative approaches.

This book follows on the authors’ successful development of the Three-Pillar Model (3-P Model) for organizing and leading in disruptive times. Its focus is on helping the reader to implement the model and providing a wide variety of application cases for these VUCA times (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity), including global crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. The book covers a broad range of organizations: private and public sector, NGOs, local and global governmental institutions, global organizations such as UN, etc. In addition, it shows how the 3-P Model can be applied to challenges in organization design, management and leadership.

This book dives deep into the "Three Pillar Model" (3-P-Model) applied by the authors for organizations. These pillars are: Sustainable Purpose, Traveling Organization, and Connected Resources. The authors specifically concentrate on the pillar Traveling Organization and help in understanding the concept, its design, and navigation in practice. The expert contributors also show the relevance of the 3-P-Model in diverse areas – from profit and public organizations to the catholic church and cultural work. The navigation is aligned with the pillar Sustainable Purpose and connects professional topics, organizations, and people as three core resources. Organizational scientists, business strategists, and executive MBA students will particularly benefit from this book.

Dieses Buch, das von einem interdisziplinären Autorenteam verfasst wurde, befasst sich mit dem Wandel von Organisationen in der heutigen unbeständigen, unsicheren und mehrdeutigen Welt (VUCA). Es zeigt die Notwendigkeit auf, Organisationen dynamisch zu führen und Arbeits- und Führungsstile, die in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten und Jahrhunderten angemessen schienen, zu überdenken und in einigen Fällen neu zu erfinden. Im Gegenzug stellt das Buch ein Modell vor, das auf drei verschiedenen Säulen der Organisation und Führung basiert, die für disruptive Zeiten geeignet sind: die Konzepte "Sustainable Purpose", "Travelling Organization" und "Connecting Resources". Diese Säulen stellen viele unserer traditionellen Organisationsmuster in Frage und erfüllen den Bedarf an effektiven transformativen Ansätzen.