Requisite Organization: A Total
System for Effective Managerial
Organization and Managerial
Leadership for the 21st Century by
Elliott Jaques
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Built upon a rigorous theoretical base, Stratified Systems Theory,
Requisite Organization relates all aspects of leadership, work and human
resources in a unified total system.
Personal Review: Requisite Organization: A Total System for
Effective Managerial Organization and Managerial Leadership for
the 21st Century by Elliott Jaques
Want to reduce turnover, eliminate micromanaging, improve leadership
and staff development, increase productivity, increase employee and

managerial satisfaction, achieve organizational goals, and more? Read
this book. Follow its directives.
It may take a while to digest the very dense information contained in this
book, but for the serious student of organizational effectiveness, it is worth
it. Very terse and prescriptive in his style, Jaques' writing may disenchant
some. Yet the wisdom in this, his flagship tome, is immense. It took a
while to sink in, and I found that reading several of his other books helped
clarify the concepts for me. See for example: Executive Leadership,
Social Power and the CEO, Human Capability, and Levels of Abstraction in
Logic and Human Action. Requisite Organization, however, is the book to
which I return for reference and details; it covers all the important concepts
in a single volume. [The other books add detail and emphasize various
points, so they have particular value too.] Organizational Design by
Rowbottom and Billis helped me too, as did the excellent work by both
Mark Van Clieaf at MVC Associates and Gillian Stamp at BIOSS.
I didn't, at first, fully understand the importance of the information
contained in this book, or the solid research foundation that underlies it. A
little known fact is that the concepts included in this book provide the
foundation for leadership development, talent management, and
compensation processes of organizations such as GE and the US Army.
Many other authors and consulting organizations touting talent
management, leadership pipelines, succession planning and the like derive
their approaches directly or indirectly from Jaques - an interesting story in
itself. Most give him little or no credit, though Colin Powell, as Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. Armed Forces, honored Jaques with
the Joint Staff Certificate of Appreciation for "outstanding contributions in
the field of military leadership theory and instruction to all of the service
departments of the United States". And the American Psychological
Association honored him with the Harry Levinson Award of the Consulting
Psychology Division for "a distinguished career and impressive
accomplishments."
After reading Jaques, all the others seem derivative, shallow, trite, and
somewhat off-target. Granted, other authors have something of value to
say about organizational structuring, accountability, strategic planning,
leadership, selection, mentoring, coaching, compensation, managerial
practices, functional alignment, measurement, and the like. But while all
the rest are shooting in the dark, Jaques hits center target!
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