The Living Organization: Transforming Business To Create Extraordinary Results
By Norman Wolfe
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About this ebook
The pressure on CEOs and other leaders to create results, while balancing an increasing diversity of opposing demands, is reaching oppressive levels. New leaders sense the breakdown of our existing business. The framework that was used to guide their efforts no longer produces the same results.
First and foremost, The Living Organization deepens our understanding of how any living organization creates the results it desires. Norman Wolfe draws on decades of experience both leading and consulting with organizations to unravel the mystery of creating results. Based on scientific, philosophical and spiritual truths, The Living Organization® model explores how three distinct yet highly interdependent fields of energy influence and determine what results will and will not be created.
Most organizations fail because they focus only on activities and reduce organizations to simple machines of production, machines whose sole purpose is to produce money. But machines are, by their very nature, soulless and everything this paradigm touches turns soulless and lifeless.
By contrast, The Living Organization brings life to an organization's activity. It is energized by relationships, and brings meaning and purpose to activities. The Living Organization creates and is in harmony with its environment, growing and developing as it contributes to and enhances all members of its ecosystem.
"Like all living systems, organizations create by transforming energy. The magic of companies like Apple, Whole Foods, Harley Davidson, Nordstrom," Wolfe writes, "lies in their ability to harness the three energy fields of manifestation whether done consciously or unconsciously."
The Living Organization teaches leaders how to succeed by consciously using all of the energy fields to create results. This essential tool is for all leaders who want to successfully navigate the varied dynamics impacting their organizations.
The Living Organization presents the foundation of a new business model and provides a new, more detailed map to navigate the complex business world of this century. This evolutionary perspective is a fresh way to understand how organizations develop, grow and evolve. It will challenge the way you think and interact.
Deeply personal, brimming with compelling stories from real-life challenges, and packed with powerful insights, tools, and practices, The Living Organization is a potent resource for aspiring, emerging, and seasoned business leaders alike.
Norman Wolfe
Throughout his professional career as a Chief Executive Officer, Corporate Director, and Advisor to CEOs, Norman Wolfe has successfully guided corporations through major transitions leading to substantial growth, market expansion and enhanced financial performance. Currently, he is the Chairman and CEO of Quantum Leaders, a leading edge consulting company guiding boards and CEOs to improve strategy execution. Norman's lifelong passion has been to understand how we, as individuals and organizations, create results and manifest our destiny. This passion is brought to life through his own Soulful Purpose™ to transform organizations to support and enhance the dignity of the human spirit in the process of serving their community. The Living Organization® Trilogy is the part of that journey. Norman travels the country speaking and training organizations and leaders on The Living Organization and the way to transform organizations from machines of production to dynamic, creative living organizations. His company, Quantum Leaders Consulting provides tools, assessments, training and implementation support to companies wanting to become Living Organizations. To have Norman speak at your next event, please visit his website www.normanwolfe.com. For training, consulting or implementation support, visit www.quantumleaders.com. Norman currently resides in Irvine, CA with his wife Jane and their two Bichon dogs. He is also an Ordained Interfaith Minister offering spiritual guidance and insightful dialogue. He welcomes feedback and conversation and can be reached at nwolfe@quantumleaders.com.
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