Oil Change: Perspectives on Corporate Transformation is the second book in the new Oxford series The Learning History Library. Each book gets inside a company at a crucial time of change, offering a unique opportunity to see innovation from the inside out. Oil Change: Perspectives on Corporate Transformation is the story of major corporate change undertaken by OilCo, a pseudonym for a major international oil company, just after a time of layoffs and cutbacks. Key people within the company tell the story, using a technique developed at MIT's Center for Organizational Learning. One hundred and fifty employees were interviewed at all levels of the company, from hourly workers to the executive council. They worked in all primary OilCo businesses: exploration and production, refining and retail, chemical and oil consulting. During this time, all the firms values came into question, including its business practices, corporate governance structure, team management, and leadership style. Oil Change: Perspectives on Corporate Transformation gives students an inside look at what OilCo learned collectively.
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Art Kleiner, President, Reflection Learning Associates, and New York University. George Roth, Research Director, MIT Center for Organizational Learning.
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The learning history materials are divided into eleven chapters that follow the Introduction: 2) Genesis: The Early Years: The forces and events that led up to the transformational "kick-off": the 1994 Learning Convention. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
financial literacy initiative, financial literacy work, imperatives team, learning historians, initiative team, premier company, new governance structure, learning history, recall page, corporate transformation, winning spirit, diversity team Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Executive Council, Southern Company, Buxton Falls, Corporate Executive Team, Improving Our Economic Value, Head Applied Learning Consultant, Holistic Leadership Associates, Corporate Transformation Group, Corporate Training Center, Key West, United States, Charles Handy, Los Angeles, General Electric, General Executive Office, Georgia Pines, Jack Welch, First Avenue New!
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The learning history materials are divided into eleven chapters that follow the Introduction: 2) Genesis: The Early Years: The forces and events that led up to the transformational "kick-off": the 1994 Learning Convention. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
financial literacy initiative, financial literacy work, imperatives team, learning historians, initiative team, premier company, new governance structure, learning history, recall page, corporate transformation, winning spirit, diversity team Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Executive Council, Southern Company, Buxton Falls, Corporate Executive Team, Improving Our Economic Value, Head Applied Learning Consultant, Holistic Leadership Associates, Corporate Transformation Group, Corporate Training Center, Key West, United States, Charles Handy, Los Angeles, General Electric, General Executive Office, Georgia Pines, Jack Welch, First Avenue New!
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- Process Consultation: Its Role in Organization Development, Volume 1 (Prentice Hall Organizational Development Series) (2nd Edition) by Edgar H. Schein in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- War and Peace by Lev Tolstoy on page 199, and Back Matter
- War and peace : a novel by Count Leo Tolstoy (Modern Library Giants, 1.1) by Leo Tolstoy on page 199, and Back Matter
- War and Peace (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy on page 199, and Back Matter
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- Change Ahead: Working in a Post 9/11 World by Pat Gill Webber in Back Matter
- The Office Professional's Guide by US Dictionaries Group in Back Matter
- To the Desert and Back: The Story of the Most Dramatic Business Transformation on Record by Philip H. Mirvis in Back Matter
- Breaking the Code of Change by Michael Beer on page 80
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