Review: Leading Outside the Lines

Businesses need to work harder and be smarter about engaging and mobilizing their organizations. That's the main premise behind Leading Outside the Lines by Jon Katzenbach, a senior vice president of Booz & Company and founder of the former Katzenbach Partners and Zia Khan, a former leader of Katzenbach's San Francisco office. Smart companies have discovered the best way to create lasting value for their businesses is to nurture non-hierarchical initiatives, rather than relying on the formalized, top-down rules of engagement. Indeed, Katzenbach and Khan both helped instill "the informal organization" at Katzenbach Partners. The authors cement their point through the use of compelling case studies from business in all sectors, shapes and sizes.