... 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 analysts and ... this half-baked theory, that all that was needed to revive an ailing company was a “charismatic leader” and “change agent,” with a novel “mindset,” and a profound under- standing of t...
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... 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 the adaptive strategies advocated ... transform it into a stellar market performer. They are much more than change agents. They are, or at any rate they are billed as, agents of metamorphosis. That’s what transfor- m...
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Business at a Crossroads The Crisis of Corporate Leadership_10 doc
... Sumantra Ghoshal, in assigning a key role to leaders in corporate reformations. She says that in the democratic enterprise “it is in the creation of a shared purpose that the role of the leadership ... integration, communications, and accountability. Hackman introduced Orpheus to the linking pin model where the team sits at the center of a horizontal and vertical matrix, and gr...
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Business at a Crossroads Leadership_1 doc
... 52 BUSINESS AT A CROSSROADS zational manuals and charts. Middle and top managers supervised, coordinated, and evaluated the work of lower level managers who were directly ... 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 ......
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Business at a Crossroads Leadership_5 doc
... 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 ... BUSINESS AT A CROSSROADS Patches on landscapes Kauffman says the size of the “patches” (in this context, units of organization or departments) in a “system” (a business or...
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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” ... intentionally left blank 20 BUSINESS AT A CROSSROADS In other words, we are attracted to situations where our fates are not set in stone and, thus, to relatively “liberal” organizatio...
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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 ... 153 The ar row and the spiral 156 The female advantage 157 Talent 157 Moderating macho 158 Risk 158 Ethics 158 Box: Ethics and gender 159 Pay 159 The promise o...
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Business at a Crossroads The Crisis of Corporate Leadership_7 pdf
... 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 ... signs of abating. New 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...
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Business at a Crossroads Leadership_2 pptx
... describe an MuBE. Administrative coordination is less costly than market coordination, but to capture such savings, an organization needs a management hierarchy, and if it has a management hierarchy ... that it might not have “speciated” (emerged as a new species) today, because the balance of advantage between managerial and market coordination has shifted too far since the MuBE’s...
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Business at a Crossroads Leadership_3 pdf
... 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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