Ebook - Business at a crossroads
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_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 a...
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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 ... (Tool Command Language, alias “tickle”), a popular program- ming language created by John Ousterhout, is also free and open-source. The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), a no...
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Business at a Crossroads The Crisis of Corporate Leadership_9 docx
... 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- mation means; ... 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 strategi...
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Business at a Crossroads The Crisis of Corporate Leadership_10 doc
... first is that small and medium-sized companies that adopt OBM will outper- form their larger rivals, and so become more attractive to able people. The second is that large companies that seek the ... Restatement, Belknap Press, 2001. Semco’s steps to democracy Ricardo Semler’s guru and principal ally in the democratization of Semco was Clóvis da S ilva Bojikian, a radical educator and a...
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