Although it was first published more than thirty-five years ago, Up the
Organization continues to top the lists of best business books by
groups as diverse as the American Management Association, Strategy +
Business (Booz Allen Hamilton), and The Wharton Center for Leadership
and Change Management. 1-800-CEO-READ ranks Townsend's bestseller first
among eighty books that "every manager must read."
This commemorative edition offers a new generation the benefit of Robert
Townsend's timeless wisdom as well as reflections on his work and life
by those who knew and worked with him. This groundbreaking book
continues to remind us not to get mired in all those sacred
organizational routines that stifle people and strangle both profits and
profitability. He shows a way to humanize business and a way to have fun
while making it all work better than it ever worked before.