The No-Limits Enterprise - by Doug Kirkpatrick (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Achieving a Twenty-First Century Enterprise
There are two near-universal truths about the working world. The first being that people work best when they are happy and passionate about their work; the second being that people produce and innovate on their highest levels when they are not coerced to work, but are simply expected to keep the commitments they freely make to their colleagues and their organization. Today, companies cannot afford to have their employees disengaged and hating-or at least not loving-their jobs. Traditional management is broken. We need a new, twenty-first-century approach to management that will galvanize the minds-and hearts-of people giving so much of their lives to organizations.
In The No-Limits Enterprise: Organizational Self-Management in the New World of Work, Doug Kirkpatrick examines how companies can begin the journey toward becoming a twenty-first-century enterprise with limitless power for growth. Within The No-Limits Enterprise, you will learn concept such as - why the domestic and global breakdown of bureaucracy means the future of the workplace is here right now, - why "managing" others in the workplace is obsolete and, ultimately, self-defeating on so many levels, and - how to rigorously self-assess for success, corporately and personally, before embarking on an enterprise transformation.
Any business can transform itself into a No-Limits Enterprise in which every individual is free to innovate and forge new paths to the immense benefit of all. These challenges do not demand complex layers of management; they demand the ability to jettison ancient layers of control, and trust in the simplest of all human traits: the desire to create with dedication and love.

Review Quotes

"If you've been thinking that endless bureaucracy, red tape, and

hierarchy is a terrible way to run a business, then you're exactly right.

Read this book and learn exactly how to make your organization

happier, freer, and more successful."

-Alexander Kjerulf

Chief Happiness Officer, Woohoo Inc.

Author and Speaker

"We can no longer talk about self-management as the 'future of

work.' In his new book, Doug eloquently shows us all why it is the

'now of work.' This book should be compulsory reading for students

of management and business leaders alike-anyone who wants to

know what it takes to lead a company into the next decade."

-Evan Leybourn

Founder, Business Agility Institute

"Doug Kirkpatrick has done it again! The No-Limits Enterprise is

your roadmap to the principles of self-management that have proven

track records across the globe. He has turned the simplest of human

traits-the desire to create with dedication and love-into a disciplined,

transformative, and powerful new approach to building your

company. All by leveraging the limitless power, passions, and commitments

of your workforce. Get this book now!"

-Bill Jensen

Author, Future Strong and Disrupt!

"The No-Limits Enterprise is a timely, thought-provoking book. With

its tools, templates, stories, and cases, it can help business leaders

on the journey to organizational transformation from old and hierarchical

to new and more empowering ways of working. This book

deserves to be widely read!"

-Professor Vlatka Hlupic

Award-Winning Author, The Management Shift and Humane Capital

"In his new book The No-Limits Enterprise, Doug Kirkpatrick brings

us a powerful message from the not-so-distant future: the only businesses

with the speed and agility to lead markets and change industries

will be the ones that can break free from the unbearable burden

of bureaucracy through self-management."

-Josh Levine

Author, Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love

"Are you on the verge of a bureaucratic breakdown? Can you Leahy?

Doug Kirkpatrick offers a roadmap to the sanity, respect, and vitality

of self-managed organizations. If you fail to read this book you do

so at your own, and your organization's, peril-and you won't learn

to Leahy."

-David Zinger

Founder and Host, Employee Experience & Engagement Network

"Finally! A comprehensive guide for anyone interested in self-management.

Brought to you by one of the few true, no-nonsense experts

in a field full of opportunistic charlatans and con artists."

-Pim de Morree

Cofounder, Corporate Rebels