As an OpenSource.com Ambassador I am very excited to announce the release of my book The Open Organization. A New Era of Leadership and Organizational Development - 2nd Edition.
It is now available on Amazon here for US$30: http://tiny.cc/uotzby. I am excited to provide this special offer to the OpenOrg list: A signed copy with FREE shipping within the United States at an introductory price of US$22. You can order your special copy here: http://tiny.cc/l0tzby In 2014 I published what is thought to be a seminal work on the subject of Open Organizations. My goal was to present a text that provided a template for developing an Open Organization. While most of the text remains the same and changes were mostly mechanical in nature, there are four major changes in this edition. They are: 1. The book is now in softback and the price is much more reasonable than the original text. $30.00 on Amazon. 2. More detail was added to Chapter 4 under the heading of *Meritocracy.* I begin to address some of the early challenges researchers have noted in *Meritocratic *organizations. 3. More detail was added under the heading of *Holacracy *in Chapter 4. Where in the early text I recognized Holacracy as a form of Open, I have since stepped back from that idea and no longer consider it to be a pure Open system. 4. In this text I begin to more deeply address the concepts of a distributed workforce. The implication of a growing distributed workforce is central to the expansion of Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Sincerely, Dr. Philip A. Foster Maximum Change Leadership & Business Consulting *"Developing 21st Century Leaders and Organizations"* http://www.maximumchange.com Best selling author of The Open Organization (TM) - A New Era of Leadership and Organizational Development. Publish Date: June 2016: http://tiny.cc/gwpzby The Open Organization is a registered Trademark of Maximum Change. Organization 3.0 - The Evolution of Leadership and Organizational Theories Toward an Open System for the 21st Century. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D5UIY3M <http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB00D5UIY3M&h=tAQFpwLA4&s=1> skype: philip.a.foster facebook: http://www.facebook.com/maximumchangeinc twitter: http://www.twitter.com/maximumchange and http://www.twitter.com/openorgs linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/maximumchange blog: http://maximumchange.wordpress.com/ *This message is intended only for the use of the party addressed and may contain information that is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately.*
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