This is Beyond Budgeting, Bjarte Bogsnes
This is Beyond Budgeting, Bjarte Bogsnes
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This is Beyond Budgeting
A Guide to More Adaptive and Human Organizations

Author: Bjarte Bogsnes

Narrator: Tim Andres Pabon

Unabridged: 3 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: G&D Media

Published: 04/24/2023


Synopsis

The pressure on executive teams is immense. They keep being challenged by stakeholders about the need for change and radical transformation, and not just on becoming greener and more sustainable. The pressure is also about becoming more dynamic and adaptive and less bureaucratic. There is a jungle of models and thousands of books claiming to have the answer. No wonder many feel overwhelmed and confused.

In This is Beyond Budgeting: A Guide to More Adaptive and Human Organizations, award-winning author Bjarte Bogsnes describes a tested and proven way of making organizations more adaptive and human. This involves radically changing traditional management, including the budgeting process, the central nervous system of rigid and bureaucratic organizations. In this book, you’ll learn to establish a highly decentralized and dynamic management model with more adaptive and self-regulating processes, designed in line with and not against human nature.

The author explains what the Beyond Budgeting model entails and illustrates its use with real-world case studies of companies that have implemented it to great effect. He discusses the most common challenges encountered during the implementation of Beyond Budgeting, including the challenge of changing not just what we do, but also how we think. This includes discarding the two main assumptions behind traditional management; that the future is predictable and plannable, and that people can’t be trusted.

This is Beyond Budgeting demonstrates how to take the principles of agile and scale them up to enterprise level, through a comprehensive model that offers a coherent combination of leadership principles and management processes. The book also describes the many benefits that companies can realize by exploring and embracing management innovation as boldly as technology innovation.

This audiobook will earn a place in the libraries of managers, executives, board members, and other leaders seeking a better way to lead and manage in new and different realities, with increasing complexity and volatility, and where employees have new and different expectations, way beyond just a paycheck.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Fabrice

An often forgotten key to agility at scale Transforming an organisation requires finding the blind spots that have prevented the necessary transformation before. These are probably core assumptions that are taken as absolute givens. Beyond Budgeting probably found the one assumption that every bureau......more

Goodreads review by Andrei

Hard to rate. What do I rate? Beyond Budgeting in general? Just this book? I hesitated between 2, 3, and 4 stars. Let me tell you why. First, this book is less about budgeting and more about a leadership and management philosophy. This is a bummer, in my opinion, as the book does not deliver on its ti......more

Goodreads review by Nicolas

As a scrum master it occurred to me that working with scrum with your teams, and working with yearly budgets at management level, was creating a lot of problems. Thanks to this book I found there is a better way, and also there is a community of people that saw the exact same issue and worked alread......more

Goodreads review by Chris

Short little intro to the world of beyond budgeting, more of an entree or appetizer to get you into this world. Recommend for people not so familiar with the approach but if you've read Bjarte's previous book you may find that you are already aware of most of this content. Either way it is a nice re......more