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The world’s first Management Lab is a unique initiative with an equally unique and powerful perspective. Co-founded by professor Gary Hamel, “the world’s leading expert on business strategy” (Fortune) and Julian Birkinshaw, Professor of Strategic and International Management at London Business School, the Lab is a pioneering attempt to create a setting in which progressive companies and world-renowned management scholars work together to co-create “tomorrow’s best practices” today. The goal: to dramatically accelerate the evolution of management processes and practices that will define competitive success in the 21st century.

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As some of you know, our very own Professor Williams is an expert on organizational behavior with a Ph.D. in the subject. He also holds a Doctorate in Divinity. His book on healing dysfunction and creating effective change can be found in the SMC Student Council Bookstire by clicking HERE. 

Dr. Williams of the SMC

This book explains in theoretical and practical terms the creation of effective change within organizations. The book states that dysfunction is a current fact of life, creating chronic problems for people and organizational systems. Dr. Williams describes the basis for dysfunction and develops an effective belief system that can guide personal and organizational functioning.

Specifically, Professor Williams defines the parameters of creating effective balance and, through three primary cases shows how dysfunction can guide personal and organizational action. He displays an abiding belief that change should occur only when people and systems begin to experience dysfunction. He describes a process for change and effectively walks the manager, professional, consultant, student, or faculty person through creating balance, change, and congruence for the long term.

 This is Peter Drucker’s famous book on organizations that essentially created the field of management study when it was first published in 1946. Peter Drucker is the one who coined the phrase “knowledge worker” and went on to write many influential books and papers on management theory. This book studies GM from the inside out. If you want to read the original book on modern organizations this is it.

Here’s the link to buy it at the SMC Student Council Bookstore!