Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits

Although it was first published more than thirty-five years ago, Up the Organization continues to top the lists of bestbusiness books by groups as diverse as the American ManagementAssociation, Strategy + Business (Booz Allen Hamilton), andThe Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management.1

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Publisher:	Jossey-Bass
Publish Date:	05/25/2007
Pages:	174
ISBN-13:	9780787987756
ISBN-10:	0787987751
Language:	English

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August 20, 2007

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Although it was first published more than thirty-five years ago, Up the Organization continues to top the lists of bestbusiness books by groups as diverse as the American ManagementAssociation, Strategy + Business (Booz Allen Hamilton), andThe Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management.1-800-CEO-READ ranks Townsend's bestseller first among eightybooks that "every manager must read."

This commemorative edition offers a new generation the benefitof Robert Townsend's timeless wisdom as well as reflectionson his work and life by those who knew and worked with him. Thisgroundbreaking book continues to remind us not to get mired in allthose sacred organizational routines that stifle people andstrangle both profits and profitability. He shows a way to humanizebusiness and a way to have fun while making it all work better thanit ever worked before.