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The Twenty-First Century Organization offers fresh insights to help managers, planners, and policy makers in both government and business keep a competitive edge in an uncertain future--and design organizations and institutions that meet tomorrow's realities. The book reveals important trends that are shaping the way organizations are evolving and presents scenarios that these and other events may bring about in the future.

Drawing on his forty plus years of experience in analyzing and helping organizations plan for the future, Guy Benveniste offers a novel framework to help

meet the challenge of increasing global competition for the new ideas needed to keep organizations innovative use today's educated and professional labor pool more effectively reduce the social consequences of constant organizational changes understand the impact of women on organizational culture and their role in the organization of the future recognize the consequences of radical innovations in communication and other information technologies discover how private organizations can regulate themselves enhance the lives of those within the organization. Benveniste shows how public and private managers, planners, and anyone interested in the future can develop bold strategies, plans, and policies in order to navigate future environments.

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Library Journal Review

In the 21st century, organizations are going to operate differently from current paradigms. Exploring the ``firm of the future,'' Benveniste (education, Univ. of California at Berkeley) acknowledges that there will be fundamental changes in our concept of organizational structure. He explains six major transformations affecting organizations, his ``typology of error'' of dysfunctional organizations, and his ``meta rules,'' which will enable us to change the rules that exist. His image of the ``firm of the future'' helps us to grasp these powerful new ideas, which are being driven by real changes. Though his predictions are suspect, as with any forecasting, Benveniste's ideas are useful in dealing with the realities of the present and especially in helping with the numerous radical shifts occurring in how organizations operate. Recommended for larger public and academic business collections.-- Dale Farris, Groves, Tex. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

CHOICE Review

In this timely and practical book, Benveniste discusses six trends about the evolution of organizations that should help private and public policy makers develop competitive strategies for the future. These trends cover international competition, educational development, feminization of the culture, new technologies, and reduction of time from transformation of ideas into action. One strength of the author's approach is his use of relationships that have existed over long periods of time as basic foundations upon which to construct futuristic scenarios. Benveniste addresses the increasing education levels of the population and how this trend will influence the workforce and organizational development; he also addresses the increasing role of women in organizations and the impact of this change. Other topics include breaking commonly accepted rules and understanding the difference between an organization's outputs and outcomes as it prepares to meet the future. Upper-division undergraduate through professional. G. Klinefelter; Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale

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GUY BENVENISTE is professor of planning in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent books include Mastering the Politics of Planning (1989) and Professionalizing the Organization (1987), both from Jossey-Bass.