... decade the dreams of the ancient librarians of Alexandria and Pergamon have been casually surpassed, and a digital Aleph has snapped into existence. What are we to make of this breathtaking achievement? Make ... peaks erupt constantly. What were heights yesterday are depths today, and may be heights again tomorrow. The landscape is in a state of constant chaotic deformation. There’s...
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... the arrival of a new (to most CEOs at the time, at any rate) and, it transpired, influential idea about how companies should be managed. It came to be known as “shareholder value” and was, ... there is a change of control. The EESA specifically states that the amounts treated as EESA golden parachute payments cannot be reduced by amounts deemed reasonable compensation in the change...
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Business at a Crossroads Leadership_6 pdf
... Women Lack Ambition?,” Harvard Business Review, April 2004. 10 Transformational, Transactional and Laissez-Faire Leadership Styles: A Meta-Analysis “Comparing Women and Men,” A. H. Eagly, M. ... compa- nies to adapt to their changing environment and advocated a third adaptation, which amounts to “feminization.” The next and penulti- mate chapter examines another promising adaptatio...
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Ebook - Business at a crossroads
... company, as we know it, made its first appearance. Business is natural Business, trade and industry are manifestations of what Adam Smith and the French physiocrats saw as “natural economic laws” ... 30 2 A feudal heritage 31 A cat ponders a king 31 Business is natural 32 Early trade 34 The precursors of companies 35 The English East India Company 37 From mercantil...
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Business at a Crossroads The Crisis of Corporate Leadership_1 ppt
... self-confident and creative than wage slaves. The second is the individual who, as a voter, wants a society that is fair as well as free and, as a worker, yearns for a career that is fulfilling and rewarding ... human avarice, but of the way hierarchical corporate organizations concentrate power in the hands of individuals and create a “CEO class” isolated from market disciplines,...
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Business at a Crossroads The Crisis of Corporate Leadership_6 doc
... requirement that the candidates are superstars. Khurana argues that Alfred Chandler’s “managerial capitalism” (see Chapter 3) was replaced by what he calls “investor capitalism” in the late 1970s, after ... asset as much as they can. In Searching for a Corpo- rate Savior (see Chapter 5), Khurana cites an article in a closed circula- tion journal about attracting favorable comment from...
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Business at a Crossroads The Crisis of Corporate Leadership_9 docx
... 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 kind may occur eventually at companies that adopt ... argued that corporations had subjugated people, to maintain consistency and control. Bartlett and Ghoshal argued that a new corporate form was emerging in which the organization is subj...
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Business at a Crossroads The Crisis of Corporate Leadership_10 doc
... 170 P parasite strategy 169 Parker, David 133 , 134 Parker, Graham 186 Peter, Laurence 133 Peters, Tom 133 physiocrats 32 , 40, 41 Pickett, Kate 76 Popper, Sir Karl 3, 30 , 96, 1 83 Porter, Michael 133 powers ... 58 C Canonical 137 capitalism entrepreneurial 62, 63, 66, 67, 131 family 62, 63, 67 financial 62, 63 investor 63, 99 managerial 60, 62, 63, 66, 67, 99, 131 , 175 Case, J...
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Business at a Crossroads Leadership_1 doc
... of a small number of proprietors with a moderate capital approaches very nearly to the nature of a private co-partnery, and may be capable of nearly the same degree of vigilance and attention. He ... take all the enhanced status and pay 9780 230 _ 230 941_04_cha02.indd 45 09/09/2009 10:00 51 3 The steam-age corporation We have seen how the idea of trade and the dynamics of compar...
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Business at a Crossroads Leadership_2 pptx
... “U.” 9780 230 _ 230 941_06_cha04.indd 73 09/09/2009 10:01 62 BUSINESS AT A CROSSROADS this system “financial capitalism,” and saw it as a transitional stage between “family” and true “managerial” capitalism ... describe an MuBE. Administrative coordination is less costly than market coordination, but to capture such savings, an organization needs a management hierarchy, and if...
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