Corporate Cultures: The Rites And Rituals Of Corporate Life [Paperback]

Terrence E. Deal (Author), Allan A. Kennedy (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 21, 1984

Business experts everywhere have been finding that corporations run not only on numbers, but on culture. Organization consultants Terrence Deal and Allan Kennedy probe the conference rooms and corridors of corporate America to discover the key to business excellence. They find that the health of the bottom line is not ultimately guaranteed by attention to the rational aspects of managing—financial planning, personnel policies, cost controls, and the like. What’s more important to long-term prosperity is the company’s culture—the inner values, rites, rituals, and heroes—that strongly influence its success, from top management to the secretarial pool.For junior and senior managers alike, Deal and Kennedy offer explicit guidelines for diagnosing the state of one’s own corporate culture and for using the power of culture to wield significant influence on how business gets done.

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About the Author

Allan Kennedy is president of Selkirk Associates, Inc., a microcomputer software company in Boston. Prior to holding this position he was a consultant for twelve years with McKinsey and Company. Terrence Deal is a professor at Peabody College at Vanderbilt University, where he specializes in the study of organization cultures. He has recently taught at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education. Allan A. Kennedy is a Boston- and London-based management consultant and writer. He is co-author with Terrence Deal of Corporate Cultures and The New Corporate Cultures. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Basic Books (January 21, 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201102870
• ISBN-13: 978-0201102871
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,525,354 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Lee G. Bolman and Terrence E. Deal are the best-selling authors of Leading with Soul. Bolman holds the Marion Bloch Chair in Leadership at the Bloch School of Business, University of Missouri:Kansas City. He consults worldwide to corporations, public agencies, universities, and schools. Deal is the Irving R. Melbo Professor of Education at the Rossier School, University of Southern California, and an international consultant to business, health care, military, educational, and religious organizations.

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Useful advice for any business leader., August 14, 1998

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This review is from: Corporate Cultures: The Rites And Rituals Of Corporate Life (Paperback)

This should be considered a classic in business literature. I found it very useful designing workshops to help corporate leaders breathe life into stodgy mission statements. The use of mission to motivate employees is rarely achieved, and this book helps you understand why.

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4.0 out of 5 stars For The Corporate World, March 9, 2011

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This review is from: Corporate Cultures: The Rites and Rituals of Corporate Life (Paperback)

This is the third book that I purchased on the subject of Corporate Cultures; with the same authors. Their first publication of The New Corpotate Culture Rites and Rituals was excellent! The editional publications of the authors including the revision of Corporate Cultures Rites and Rituals is on management, it has very good references of the large top 500 companies. this too is good reading.

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7 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Read this, and drag your company into the new millennium, June 18, 1999

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This review is from: Corporate Cultures: The Rites And Rituals Of Corporate Life (Paperback)

Provides the forward-thinking employee with ammunition on why a positive, nurturing culture is critical to a company's success. There's more to being successful in business that simply creating/selling the best product. More companies should wake up and move into the 1990's (before they're over)...