TY - GEN AU - Howes, Curt J. TI - Organizational performance: the key to success in the 21st century SN - 9781514403877 U1 - 658.406 HO OR PY - 2016/// CY - United States PB - Xlibris KW - Organizational change KW - Personnel management KW - Performance management N2 - The modern organization may be the greatest invention of the twentieth/ twenty first centuries. Organizations have executed strategies that sent men to the moon and returned them safely, implemented the Internet and other communication systems, discovered oil through deepwaterdrilling and fracking technologies, deployed lifesaving medical technologies to remote areas across the globe, provided clean drinking water where none existed before, and continued to raise the quality of living in emerging markets and economies. This instrument we call the organization has accomplished amazing feats not possible by individuals ER -