This text outlines how organizations can dismantle bureaucracy and replace it with more productive, fair, and dmocratic systems of organizing and coordinating work. The authors maintain that bureaucracy wastes the collective intelligence of employees and slows down their ability to make decisions and take action. "A stimulating adventure into the new management logic that can keep companies competitive into the next century".--Industry Week. 19 charts.

Intrapreneuring in Action: A Handbook for Business Innovation by Pinchot Gifford
Intrapreneuring: Why You Don't Have to Leave the Corporation to Become an Entrepreneur by Pinchot, Gifford
The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization by Senge, Peter

Insightful!
How can citizens of a society that exalts freedom consent to spend the majority of their lives laboring within organizations that are hierarchical, slow-moving and dictatorial? Gifford and Elizabeth Pinchot raised that question in their heralded 1993 book and provided the following answer: Not willingly and not for long. The Pinchots were among the first management scholars to predict the demise of the military-style command structure, along with its inherent secrecy and Machiavellian political sniping. Although a slew of books devoted to the same theme have been published since, none have done a better job at explaining the potential of informed and engaged employees who don't fear their bosses too much to take decisive action. We [...] strongly recommend this book, which brims with meticulous case histories showing how teams, employee-owned companies and internal free-market competition have transformed organizations. (In fact, the Pinchots coined the term "intraprenuership" to describe this process.) While you might not be convinced that a company run by consensus can ever compete with one run by The Prince, this book gives you hope that it can.