Business at a Crossroads The Crisis of Corporate Leadership 9 docx

... income are seen as unfair and hang like 97 80230_23 094 1_02_intro.indd 6 09/ 09/ 20 09 10:07 BUSINESS AT A CROSSROADS The Crisis of Corporate Leadership Tom Lloyd 97 80230_23 094 1_01_prels.indd 3 09/ 09/ 20 09 ... My approach is 97 80230_23 094 1_02_intro.indd 9 09/ 09/ 20 09 10:07 4 BUSINESS AT A CROSSROADS the embryos of other mammals. This means we l...

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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. ... work at, as well as to the reputations (and market value) of the CEOs they work for. Strategy consultants also play a vital role in the development and dissemina...

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... it. 97 80230_23 094 1_ 09_ cha07.indd 131 09/ 09/ 20 09 10:02 130 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 ... a rather similar sounding name. 97 80230_23 094 1_ 09_ cha07.indd 1 39 09/ 09/ 20 09 10:02 134 BUSINESS AT A CROSSROADS librium in bounded instability...

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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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... 97 80230_23 094 1_12_cha10.indd 1 89 09/ 09/ 20 09 10:03 10 CORPORATE REFORMATION 191 Redeeming the corporation The dramatic events of the past two years or so in banking and in busi- ness at large, offer an unprecedented and, ... 33, 34 97 80230_23 094 1_13_ind01.indd 199 09/ 09/ 20 09 10:03 10 CORPORATE REFORMATION 187 In their book The End of Management and the Ri...

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... industry are 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- nance, of the ... 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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... take all the enhanced status and pay 97 80230_23 094 1_04_cha02.indd 45 09/ 09/ 20 09 10:00 51 3 The steam-age corporation We have seen how the idea of trade and the dynamics of comparative advantage ... His share of reparations for the Black Hole of Calcutta massacre extracted after the battle of Plassey, was some 90 million in today’s money and that wasn’t the h...

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... Let’s agree for the 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-19th ... 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 qu...

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... confront the logical 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 ... 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 a...

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... 97 80230_23 094 1_ 09_ cha07.indd 128 09/ 09/ 20 09 10:02 130 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, ... 97 80230_23 094 1_ 09_ cha07.indd 138 09/ 09/ 20 09 10:02 128 BUSINESS AT A CROSSROADS Patches on landscapes Kauffman says the size of...

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