An Inside Account of One Company's Remarkable Transformation Take a fascinating, decade-long journey to witness the remarkabletransformation of a mediocre company into a team-based topcompetitor. Your guides are a trio of participant/observers, allkey players in achieving this systemic change of classicproportion. --Jerome M. Rosow, president, Work in America Institute, Inc. Anyone in a leadership position today, union or management, shouldread this book. It tells the important story of howlabor/management partnerships can make a difference and provideworkable solutions to complex problems presented by today's globaleconomy. --Boyd Young, international president, United PaperworkersInternational Union A Cinderella story of perseverance and triumph, What Works is aninstructive guide to achieving success through cooperation,teamwork, and courage. It tells the tale of how ChampionInternational--one of America's oldest and largest industrial papercompanies--transformed itself from an underachieving,tradition-bound organization into a thriving Wall Street winnerover the course of eleven years. In answering the question of how acompany can change successfully over time while remaining bothhumane and profitable, this brisk, brutally honest, insiders'account offers a number of hard-won lessons and practical tools tomanagers and visionaries faced with the same daunting challenges.

What Works: A Decade of Change at Champion International (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series)

Business & Money

Ault, Richard

Walton, Richard

Childers, Mark

Biography & History

Pfeiffer

Even before William Boykin begins his tumultuous term as U.S. President, the people of Flint, Michigan, have long suffered from lead in their water system, a humanitarian crisis resulting from the arrogance of state politicians. Fractured trust in government is widespread. Out of this turbulence emerges Charlie Birnbaum, the Independent U.S. Congressman from Flint Township. He is elected governor in 2018, running on the theme of fundamental systemic change. “It’s not enough to change the players,” he says. “It’s time to change the game.” 
Upon taking office he initiates a process by which twenty-five citizens are chosen by lot to form a constitutional council, a group with highly diverse origins, personalities and political thinking. Their journey of ideas takes them from ancient Greek and Naitve American governance structures to the social architecture of the internet, social media and the contemporary concepts of Peer Progressives. Along the way, they must deal with their own conflicts as well was those created by outside forces.
An initially reluctant member of this group is Angelo RoundSky, an Ojibwe from the northern Michigan Eagletown reservation. From a place of bitterness and low self-esteem, Angelo grows as a leader with the encouragement of his girlfriend/fiance , his fellow team members, and a remarkable native vision quest experience. When Governor Birnbaum is seriously wounded by a would-be assassin, Angelo assumes the role of temporary “battle chief” to achieve victory for the group’s final proposals of constitutional change over powerful forces of resistance from both within and outside the state.
Dr. Richard Ault has spent his entire working career in the business of innovation and change, experience that is reflected in this book. He began as a high school teacher of English and a course called Problems in Democracy before becoming the school principal at the age of twenty-seven. He worked most of his life, however, as an international consultant to organizations large (General Motors, Alcoa, Brown and Root, Champion International and others) and small (an Off-Broadway theater company), private and public (the Electric Trust of South Australia, the Sydney Water Board, the Executive Office of the President of the United States). He has published articles, book chapters, a poem, and a non-fiction book all on cultural change in large social systems. His personal essay, “Living in the Nuthouse,” appears online at biostories.com. In his first novel, The Names in the Hat, Ault turns his passion for innovation to the subject of the structure of democracy itself.

The Names In The Hat: A Novel of Personal and Political Transformation

Literature & Fiction

United States

Richard Ault

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