The Intelligent Organization

Shows how to replace bureaucracy with fundamentally different principles for organizing and coordinating work. The Pinchots describe "intelligent organizations" that make full use of the intelligence of all employees. By developing and engaging the intelligence, business judgement, and wide-system responsibility of all its members, an organization can respond more effectively to customers, partners, and competitors. Topics include establishing internal free markets, community in the workplace, and limited corporate government. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Gifford Pinchot leads the firm Pinchot & Company, which trains intrapreneurial teams to succeed, helps managers to better foster innovation, and designs reward systems that encourage innovation and wise long-term management. He is author of the bestselling classic Intrapreneuring: Why You Don't Have to Leave the Corporation to Become an Entrepreneur, The Intelligent Organization , coauthored with his wife Elizabeth Pinchot, and Intrapreneuring in Practice, coauthored with Ron Pellman.

Elizabeth Pinchot and her husband, Gifford Pinchot have started and run four companies together, consulted to and trained executives of more than half of the 100 largest companies in the United States and many abroad, including AT&T, Banco de Brasil, the Canadian National Railroad, DuPont, Ford, Hoechst Celenese, Kodak, Motorola, the New York Stock Exchange, 3M, and the U.S. Forest Service. They have also led school and community reform projects, and collaborated in the writing of their influential book, Intrapreneuring. Elizabeth and Gifford Pinchot are also coauthors of The Intelligent Organization.