Focused Energy

Paul Strebel, International Institute of Management Development (IMD), Lausanne, SwitzerlandIMD is an independent not-for-profit foundation based in Switzerland. It was set up over 50 years ago by a few leading corporations to address the real challenges that leading managers face in everyday business. Since then, IMD has been working closely with businesses to develop people through a number of different courses at Executive and MBA level. IMD takes a 'Real World. Real Learning' approach that combines academic rigour with practical solutions. IMD is a truly international school, with faculty from 18 countries, close links with over 130 corporations worldwide, and was ranked in Business Week and the US News & World Report in 1997 as one of the world's most eminent business schools.

• BOTTOM-UP ORGANIZATION. Introducing Bottom-up Organization (P. Strebel). Pathways to Bottom-up Organization (P. Strebel). ENERGIZING THE ORGANIZATION. Pioneering Spirit (P. Lorange). Growth Catalysts (J. Horovitz). Craft Networks (A. Boynton). Boundary-crossing Networks (T. Vollmann). Reconfigurable Organizations (J. Galbraith). Competence-sharing across Boundaries (P. Morosini). FOCUSING THE ENERGY. Balancing Bottom-up with Top-down (P. Lorange). Focusing on Breakthrough Options (P. Strebel). Developing Strategy from Within (P. Killing). Using Collective Learning to Focus the Energized Organization (X. Gilbert). Using Information to Channel Human Energy (D. Marchand). Focusing People around Processes (J.-P. Deschamps). Co-ordinating Laterally (J. Galbraith). Personal Compacts (P. Strebel). Turbo-kaizen (T. Vollmann). The Leadership Paradox (J. Kassarjian). Contributors. Index.