Requisite Organization: A Total System for Effective Managerial Organization and Managerial Leadership for the 21st Century: Amended

Customer Reviews

This all sounds great. Unfortunately, effectively managing cross-functional workflow in a requisite organization is extremely difficult and time-consuming. Since the attention of most people is on local optimization, and very few managers are up to the task of maintaining a global focus, functional-area hierarchies end up optimizing their local processes at the expense of global performance. Also, since this organization IS so enduring, it is extremely difficult to effect positive changes.

There are some interesting ideas in this book. However, the ultimate product is usually going to be an organization that self-reinforces suboptimal behavior. If you want a self-perpetuating organization rife with finger-pointing, political in-fighting, and deadlocked workflow... implement a requisite organization.

If you want a lean, mean organization in which ownership and accountability are tied directly to business goals and overall system performance is emphasized... look elsewhere. Start with "The Goal", "It's Not Luck", or "Critical Chain" by Eliyahu Goldratt. Also check out "The New Rational Manager" by Charles Kepner & Benjamin Tregoe, and "How Organizations Work" by Alan Brache; both are excellent.

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