Open Management: Better work for a better world

If you are dissatisfied with the way work works, and you are seeking better ways of working, this book will propose new directions for you to explore, and inspire you to go there to make work better.

Amidst today’s wild rates of change and shifting social values, we all need better ways to work. What got you here won't get you there. You're probably already struggling with a different world. This book looks at why, and who we must be to make work better. Better for everyone: better results, better lives, better society.

We must be open: open society to higher consciousness; open organisations to greater transparency and inclusion; open teams to collaboration; open individuals to self examination, honesty, and vulnerability.

The key to advancing work is the manager. We must open up management to be invitational, inclusive, serving, and transparent. Better ways of managing enable better ways of working.

While so much thinking about work seems to be focused on models - especially models of agility and flow - this book rises above them to understand principles and behaviours for better ways, especially in the context of management.

This book is for those who improve how we work, especially managers, coaches, and consultants; and for those who work, and want to take ownership of improvement.

The authors’ other book, The agile Manager (small a), is practical experience and advice on better ways of working and managing. It was the how, this is the why. This book, Open Management, is their philosophical manifesto, an appeal to our better selves to advance work and society to greater humanity and a better world - better ways of being.

Most of this book is supplementary discussion of ideas in the main text, which is kept mercifully short for the hurried reader - about 60 pages.

What people are already saying about this book

This book lights our path to what's next.

Ed Morrison, co-author of Strategic Doing (Don’t miss the excellent Foreword by Ed)

Brilliant! Game - changer! The most exciting book I’ve read in years on organization design and leadership models.

Anh Nguyen, Amazon review

This book helps us to discover or remember what Open Management is, why it matters, and once again provides copious practical advice and links on where to learn more… Read it and enjoy lovely writing by humans for humans.