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""Gives compelling evidence that flattening hierarchies are a key to success in today's fast-paced world.... While a long-term endeavor, this book offers a good starting point for senior managers to understand the fundamentals of the underlying architecture of this emerging trend in business organization.""--Electronic Business ""I know from first-hand experience that Frank Ostroff's ideas work. Indeed, many of them are in place and working throughout my company. Ostroff moves easily from theory to practice and gives us a strategic guide to successfully organizing corporations for the new millennium."" --Paul A. Allaire, Chairman and CEO of Xerox ""Most businesses have been struggling to find an alternative to the traditional business organization with all the `stove pipe' problems that it produces. Frank Ostroff has done us an invaluable service in showing that a modern horizontal organization can be devised and put into effect.""--Sir Peter Middleton, Acting Chief Executive, Barclays Bank ""Ostroff's book is refreshing because of front-line, firsthand employee accounts. Ostroff is also brutally candid about the difficulty of transitioning to a more horizontal structure."" --Megan Santosus, CIO ""Recommended for graduate, research, and professional collections.""--Choice ""The beauty of Ostroff's book is in how it clearly outlines the horizontal organization's core processes.... Douglass McGregor's Theory Y finds its home here, as does Drucker's MBO. The amount of energy and pride exhibited in the examples from major corporate and governmental horizontal organizations such as Motorola, GE, and OSHA is extraordinary.""--At Work ""Ostroff champions the 'horizontal' structure-one that is organized across functions and around core processes. This type of structure removes the functional walls that exist in traditional organizations and streamlines value delivery. The book explains what the horizontal organization looks like, how it works, and presents a how-to process for building one.""--Business Reader Review

..provides managers with the first all-inclusive and tested alternative to the vertical organisation. Business Age. February 1999. The Horizontal Organisation is a really good read for everyone in the business. If youare not already following these principles, maybe you should be. If you already are, a reminder as to why can be most refreshing. Business Money. March 1999. The value of this book is that it consolidates much of contemporary thinking on corporate structure and the case studies included are genuinely instructive. - Kay Reynolds. - Accounting and Business. May 1999.

The value of this book is that it consolidates much of contemporary thinking on corporate structure and the case studies included are genuinely instructive. - Kay Reynolds. - Accounting and Business. May 1999. The Horizontal Organisation is a really good read for everyone in the business. If youare not already following these principles, maybe you should be. If you already are, a reminder as to why can be most refreshing. * Business Money. March 1999. * ..provides managers with the first all-inclusive and tested alternative to the vertical organisation. * Business Age. February 1999. *

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Frank Ostroff is a key developer of the ""Horizontal Organization"" concept which has been featured in such publications as Business Week (cover story), Financial Times, Fortune, and Information Week (cover story). He has worked directly with leading organizations in the high-technology, industrial goods, and financial services industries as well as the public sector to dramatically improve their performance. He has been a keynote speaker at leading business conferences and academic institutions worldwide. Considered one of the world's leading new thinkers on business issues, he lives with his wife and children in Washington, D.C.

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