How Organizations Should Work: envisioning a high-performing organization made of a network of internal entrepreneurs

Review\n"Dean Meyer has had an immense influence on my life. This book is yet another masterpiece that teaches us the framework of a high-performing organization. It's a book every transformational CEO should read."
-- Sergio Paiz, CEO, PDC\n"Following the eras of hierarchical, matrix, and networked organizations, Meyer provides a welcome new perspective: the Market Organization. It's a comprehensive, modular business operating model, built on solid organizational principles. This experience-rich book provides a practical blueprint for organizational transformation, necessary to survive in the face of turbulence, complexity, and disruption."
-- Peter G. W. Keen, Professor (retired), Stanford, MIT, and Harvard\n"This is an extraordinary leadership book that every manager in any company can use. It takes you through every imaginable element of a corporate organization — structure, financial governance, incentives, and more — challenges conventional wisdom, and clearly lays out new ways of thinking. It was a real eye-opening experience for one who has spent his career in traditional organizations. I kept saying, 'Yeah, that is the way organizations should work!'"
-- Richard Hartnack, Chairman of the Board, Synchrony Financial\n"Standing ovation! This book is incredible! Internal entrepreneurship blows away bureaucracy. Teamwork obviates silos. Internal value-chains build alignment so much better than top-down plans and cascading objectives. You don't need to pick your poison — innovation versus efficiency, empowerment versus control — you can have your cake and eat it too. You won't believe what's possible in organizations until you read this ground-breaking book."
-- Fred Dewey, serial startup and turnaround CEO\n"This book is fantastic! It's real world (the 'conversations' are so familiar) and yet incredibly thought provoking. This is a must for anyone leading transformational change in their organization."
-- Mark Eustis, President & CEO (retired), Fairview Health Services, and Founding Board Member, VillageMD\n"I've never read anything like this. It's profound! This book really stretched my thinking about what's possible as a leader."
-- Juan Pablo Zelaya, Professor, Universidad Galileo, and Founder and General Manager, The Fit Center\n"This is inspired work! It's big picture, yet detailed, in a way that expands and rewires my brain."
-- Huron Low, Co-founder, Virtuoso Card Company\n"There are thousands of books about how organizations should work and nearly all of them are inane. This book is a happy exception — predictable given its author. Dean Meyer has a decades-long track record of deep research, fresh thinking, innovation, big ideas and solid advice. When you read this book, you're going to learn a lot that will help you build a better organization, and that's something I rarely say."
-- Don Tapscott, Chancellor Emeritus, Trent University, and best-selling author\n"Over the years and in several roles, Dean's unique organizational genius has been instrumental to me in diagnosing organizational problems and putting in place structures, systems, and ways of thinking that improve everything: engagement, productivity, results. This book is Dean's masterpiece — not only does he show how it all works together at all levels, not only is every figure indexed and every reference cited, but he tells you how to get there using a philosophy and approach that brings everyone along with the change."
-- Remy Evard, (former) CIO, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
----more endorsements\n"When I first discovered Dean's vision for 'Market Organizations,' I worried that it was overly aspirational, theoretical, and failed to address the practical realities of running a business. As I dug deeper, I realized that our 'practical realities' were largely symptoms of our violating fundamental principles: accountabilities not aligned with authorities; a focus on tasks rather than deliverables; people going too many ways at once; etc. App