Any enterprise can gain a competitive edge in the short-term by introducing new products and services. In the long term,, however, an adaptive and successful enterprise calls for a soundly structured organization with creative staffing and leadership at every level. Dr. Jaques sets out a system of practical working concepts and tools for building organizations and human resources that can beat the competition at home and world-wide know and into the 21st Century.

Step by step, Jacques builds up the concepts, and then sets out the working procedures to enable CEOs, managers, and HR specialists, to develop 'requisite organization', that is to say, organization which enhances entrepreneurial creativity, productive effectiveness, and human satisfaction and morale.