Business at a Crossroads The Crisis of Corporate Leadership 1 ppt

... system 10 5 The management ideas market 10 7 The CEO as principal and conductor 10 9 Systemic risks 11 1 For tunes from good fortune 11 4 The CEO as ambassador 11 5 Leaders and leadership 11 6 Pr ogress ... resem- bles the face of a juvenile ape. The resemblance fades as the ape’s jaw grows, relative to the rest of the skull, to produce the adult ape’s m...

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... “social matching” criteria when a board is drawing up a list of candidates for the CEO job are: the current position of the candidate, and the performance and stature of the candidate’s company. ... an advantage for investment banks, because the economics of asset- 9780230_2309 41_ 07_cha05.indd 10 1 09/09/2009 10 : 01 108 BUSINESS AT A CROSSROADS The i...

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... it. 9780230_2309 41_ 09_cha07.indd 13 1 09/09/2009 10 :02 13 0 BUSINESS AT A CROSSROADS Part of the answer is that the fitness landscape of each firm is a crea- ture of the fitness landscapes of other firms. In the past, ... 9780230_2309 41_ 08_cha06.indd 12 0 09/09/2009 10 : 01 128 BUSINESS AT A CROSSROADS Patches on landscapes Kauffman says the size o...

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... rate they are billed as, agents of metamorphosis. That’s what transfor- mation means; a metamorphosis, a change of form or of character; an alteration of function or of nature. Something of the ... induced.” An important consequence of the idea of companies as portfolios of processes, was the death of what Ghoshal and Bartlett called the Russian doll model...

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... 18 3, 18 9 Ricardo, David 34 Ridley, Matt 33, 11 2, 15 1, 15 2, 15 3 RISC 16 7, 16 8, 16 9 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 18 S Salinger, J. D. 14 3 Sanger, Larry 14 0, 14 2 Sarbanes-Oxley Act 4, 11 1, 11 2, 15 8 ... 99 managerial 60, 62, 63, 66, 67, 99, 13 1, 17 5 Case, John 18 8, 18 9 Catalyst 15 0 Catcher in the Rye 14 3 CEO -led company 8, 11 , 17 , 29, 12 0, 12 3,...

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... appearance. Business is natural Business, trade and industry are manifestations of what Adam Smith and the French physiocrats saw as “natural economic laws” embedded in the logic of the human situation; ... between the company as a state, and the company as a people. In a company where the first approach is preferred by the leader (embodying the company as a...

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... to a period of organizational innovation in the U.S. railroads, from which the “divisional line-and-staff” organization emerged as the standard. The line-and-staff organization adds to the ... manifestations of what Adam Smith and the French physiocrats saw as “natural economic laws” embedded in the logic of the human situation; of the need for shelter and suste...

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... sake of argument that managerial coordination, after taking full account of agency costs, was more efficient than market coordination at the time of the MuBE’s EEA in the late -19 th century. The ... today, because the balance of advantage between managerial and market coordination has shifted too far since the MuBE’s EEA toward the latter. There is another questio...

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... implications of their explanation; namely, that these rewards are the creatures of capitalism itself, or rather, of the interactions of natural human impulses with the capitalist system. Their ... for TARP participation illuminate the concerns of Americans about executive pay in the midst of a major financial crisis and on the brink of what seemed at the...

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... project, is approaching some kind of completion. In barely a decade the dreams of the ancient librarians of Alexandria and Pergamon have been casually surpassed, and a digital Aleph has snapped into ... 9780230_2309 41_ 09_cha07.indd 13 8 09/09/2009 10 :02 12 8 BUSINESS AT A CROSSROADS Patches on landscapes Kauffman says the size of the “patches” (in this co...

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