I am passionate about management innovation, exploring and embracing new and better ways of leading and managing. For almost 30 years, I have helped organizations all over the world get started on a Beyond Budgeting journey, alongside my Finance and HR roles in Borealis and Statoil/Equinor. I'm forever thankful for the great opportunities these companies have given me. I have now said goodbye to my corporate life for Bogsnes Advisory, hoping to help even more organizations radically improve their management practices. I'm Chairman of the Beyond Budgeting Roundtable (BBRT), a popular international business speaker and Beyond Budgeting coach, and winner of a Harvard Business Review/McKinsey Management Innovation Award.
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This Is Beyond Budgeting: A Guide to More Adaptive and Human Organizations
This is Beyond Budgeting – A Guide to More Adaptive and Human Organizations demonstrates how to take the principles of agile and scale them up to enterprise level, through a comprehensive model that offers a coherent combination of leadership principles and management processes. The book also describes the many benefits that companies can realize by exploring and embracing management innovation as boldly as technology innovation. This book will earn a place in the libraries of managers, executives, board members, and other leaders seeking a better way to lead and manage in new and different realities, with increasing complexity and volatility, and where employees have new and different expectations, way beyond just a paycheck.
In a world of unrelenting change and unprecedented challenges, we need organizations that are resilient and daring.
Unfortunately, most organizations, overburdened by bureaucracy, are sluggish and timid. In the age of upheaval, top-down power structures and rule-choked management systems are a liability. They crush creativity and stifle initiative. As leaders, employees, investors, and citizens, we deserve better. We need organizations that are bold, entrepreneurial, and as nimble as change itself. Hence this book.
In Humanocracy, Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini make a passionate, data-driven argument for excising bureaucracy and replacing it with something better. Drawing…
“The success story behind the world’s most unsual workplace” was how this amazing book was introduced when published back in 1988.
Ricardo Semler writes about how he tried to run this Brazilian company after taking over for his father, inspired by what he just had learned from US business schools. The result was a disaster, both for the company and him. Recovering from a burn-out, he realised that the answer lay in doing the very opposite.
Check out the story about an amazing company where people even set their own salaries!
I read this book when I was still a firm believer in traditional managament. It just blew my mind! Maybe that was when my Beyond Budgeting career started?
Pim de Morree and Joost Minnarr both left safe and good corporate jobs to explore the world of management innovation.
They toured the world, meeting and learning from great companies and leaders across a variety of industries. The result is a book of wonderful stories and deep insights about what these companies were rebelling against, and what they did instead.
8 radical lessons from 100 of the world's most inspiring companies
Today's workplaces are broken. Badly broken. With 85% of employees disengaged, 23% feeling burned out and 37% believing that their job makes no useful contribution to society, work as we know it today is simply not working.
The good news? There is a better way. And it's not just theory. It's already practiced in pioneering organisations around the globe. Drawing on Minnaar and De Morree's visits to 100+ of the world's most progressive organisations, this book gives direct evidence that you can make work enjoyable and rewarding, while boosting…
Jeremy Hope (RIP) and Robin Fraser were two British authors/researchers who, in the late nineties, discovered that a number of companies had ditched traditional budgeting and much more in favour of more adaptive and human management models.
They visited and interviewed these organisations, including the European petrochemicals company Borealis where we kicked out the traditional budget in 1995. The result was this fascinating book, and the international network Beyond Budgeting Roundtable which today is more active than ever.
The traditional annual budgeting process--characterized by fixed targets and performance incentives--is time consuming, overcentralized, and outdated. Worse, it often causes dysfunctional and unethical managerial behavior. Based on an intensive, international study into pioneering companies, Beyond Budgeting offers an alternative, coherent management model that overcomes the limitations of traditional budgeting. Focused around achieving sustained improvement relative to competitors, it provides a guiding framework for managing in the twenty-first century.
UK based Steve Morlidge is a veteran in the Beyond Budgeting movement.
Together with US based Steve Player (RIP), they wrote what I would call the greatest book ever on business forecasting. Rooted in Morlidge’s PhD insights and his extensive experience as a Finance professional, this book provides invaluable learnings on how to provide unbiased, trustworthy, and relevant business forecasts.
It also reveals how to get rid of politics and gaming in this critical business process.
The recent crisis in the financial markets has exposed serious flaws in management methods. The failure to anticipate and deal with the consequences of the unfolding collapse has starkly illustrated what many leaders and managers in business have known for years; in most organizations, the process of forecasting is badly broken. For that reason, forecasting business performance tops the list of concerns for CFO's across the globe.
It is time to rethink the way businesses organize and run forecasting processes and how they use the insights that they provide to navigate through these turbulent times. This book synthesizes and structures…
This manual addresses the need to ensure that people are at the centre of the organisation. There has never been a timelier reminder of the need to ensure that leading, supporting and developing staff are critical aspects of creating the right organisational culture to grow and develop. Written with sensitivity, it brings together essential learning and underpinning theoretical knowledge and frameworks to promote effective practice.
This is an essential handbook for managers and leaders who want to develop the full potential of their people. It not only covers the fundamental issues of human resource management, but also highlights important topics that organisations find difficult to address, such as empowerment, stress management, mental health, equality, diversity, inclusion, and the promotion of well-being at work.
It is refreshing to come across an HR book that bridges the gap perfectly between the academic theory and the practicality of ‘how to do it'. Dr Neil Thompson takes us on a humanistic journey that genuinely captures the human dimension of people management. This is an extremely helpful manual full of important and practical information about promoting well-being to achieve the best outcome for various everyday people management issues. The easy-to-understand inclusive language of this book calls to anyone interested in people management, meaning this is a perfect book for students, HR leaders, and practitioners. I know I will…
