Organization and Leadership in Disruptive Times Design and Implementation Using the 3-P-Model

This book follows on the authors’ successful development of the Three-Pillar Model (3-P Model) for organizing and leading in disruptive times. Its focus is on helping the reader to implement the model and providing a wide variety of application cases for these VUCA times (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity), including global crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. The book covers a broad range of organizations: private and public sector, NGOs, local and global governmental institutions, global organizations such as UN, etc. In addition, it shows how the 3-P Model can be applied to challenges in organization design, management and leadership.

Part I: Introduction Chapters.- From a Retrospective to a Perspective View.- Contributions to the 3-P-Model Application: Overview and Connection of the Detailed Cases Presented in the Book.- Part II: Fundamental Thoughts with Which to Start the 3-P-Model Journey.- About Travelling in the Unknown in the Nineteenth Century and Today: A Pattern for Leadership and Management in a 3-P-Model Context.- Nature Eats Culture for Lunch: About Consonances and Dissonances Shifting or Limiting Harmony.- Wicked Problems of the Travelling Organizations.- Part III: Leadership in the 3-P-Model: Setting Direction and Motivation.- The Benefits of Improvisational Theatre.- Leading Organizations Through Intrinsic Motivation.- The AAUL Framework of Leadership in Times of Crisis.- Part IV: 3-P-Model Application in the Public Sector.- Applying the Three-Pillar Model in the UN Agencies.- The Impact of Platform Economies on the Urban Structure.- From the Inside and the Outside: A Learning Journey to Mainstream the Digital Transformation in a Federal Enterprise.- Scientific Guidance on Journeys in Unknown Areas: A Best Practice Example.- Cooperation and Development in a Social Organization.- Part V: 3-P-Model Application in the Private Sector.- Start-Up Development in Traditionally Operating Industries: Regional Subsidiaries of Pharmaceutical Companies.- Applying the Principles of the 3-P-Model to Build an Agile High-Performance Team Within Finance.- Application of the 3-P-Model in a Start-Up-Like Environment of a Large Enterprise.- MedTech Companies on Their Growth Journey-Leadership Responses to Growth Challenges in the Light of the 3-P-Model.- Building a Sustainable Brand in Specialty Chemicals (Carve Out from a Big Corporate).- Climate Change and Winemaking: A Significant Transformation in Agriculture.- Trapped in the Bermuda Triangle Among Project, Process, and Line Organizations: Accelerating Complex Tech Development Projects.- Part VI: Helpful Design Concepts to Best Use the 3-P-Model.- Organizations Meandering in the Product Life Cycle.- Transformation in the Field of Product Development: A Five-Day Micro-Project.- Emergent Change: Embracing Complexity as a Key Challenge in a Travelling Organization.- Building and Using a Compass for Travelling Organizations.- If Not Now: Then When? Learning from the Pandemic for the Application of the Three-Pillar Model.- Part VII: Resume.- Conclusions and Takeaways.- The Three-Pillar Questionnaire.