How to transform an organization, based on fascinating, inside stories of major industrial companies and service companies (including Fortune 500 companies), aggressive smaller firms, and European companies. Provides insights into the styles and philosophies of leaders and executives who have transformed their companies, whether big or small, and offers practical advice on middle management's role in transforming large organizations.
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How to transform an organization, based on fascinating, inside stories of major industrial companies and service companies (including Fortune 500 companies), aggressive smaller firms, and European companies. Provides insights into the styles and philosophies of leaders and executives who have transformed their companies, whether big or small, and offers practical advice on middle management's role in transforming large organizations.
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Now in paper! The blueprint for instituting change used by America's top CEOs!
THE TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADER
Lee Iacocca is one. So is GE's Jack Welch. And Unisys's Michael Blumenthal. They're "transformational" leaders--a special breed capable of managing the kind of massive turnaround most U.S. companies will have to undergo in the next decade to stay competitive. But what makes them able to steer their huge organizations down new paths? The Transformational Leader gives senior executives and managers the answers, not by profiling personalities, but by dissecting the process of transformational leadership and giving managers specific ideas for transforming their own companies.
Praise for The Transformational Leader . . .
"I hope executives everywhere take the time to learn from this valuable book." --Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School author of The Change Masters and When Giants Learn to Dance
"Takes its place in the first rank of books on leadership. It is a fascinating study of business leaders who actually accomplished major transformations. I learned a great deal from it." --John Gardner, founder of Common Cause and former Secretary of HEW --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
THE TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADER
Lee Iacocca is one. So is GE's Jack Welch. And Unisys's Michael Blumenthal. They're "transformational" leaders--a special breed capable of managing the kind of massive turnaround most U.S. companies will have to undergo in the next decade to stay competitive. But what makes them able to steer their huge organizations down new paths? The Transformational Leader gives senior executives and managers the answers, not by profiling personalities, but by dissecting the process of transformational leadership and giving managers specific ideas for transforming their own companies.
Praise for The Transformational Leader . . .
"I hope executives everywhere take the time to learn from this valuable book." --Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School author of The Change Masters and When Giants Learn to Dance
"Takes its place in the first rank of books on leadership. It is a fascinating study of business leaders who actually accomplished major transformations. I learned a great deal from it." --John Gardner, founder of Common Cause and former Secretary of HEW --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Tichy and Devanna have produced an easy to read, practical text on leadership. The book demonstrates knowledge of leaderhship studies and research, but is written in a practical, applicable form. A great job of applying the sometimes nebulous subject of leadership into a very readable and useful text!
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Competitive pressures are forcing companies to reassess the explicit and implicit employment contracts they have struck with employees over the last three decades. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
social architectural problem, planful opportunism, transformational drama, transformational leaders, mobilizing commitment, institutionalizing change, cultural uncertainty, car groups Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
General Motors, General Electric, Jack Welch, Burger King, Lee Iacocca, Mike Blumenthal, United States, Fisher Body, Jack Sparks, Jim Renier, John Harvey-Jones, Roger Smith, New York, Lloyd Reuss, Mary Ann Lawlor, Alex Cunningham, Fred Hammer, Honeywell Information Systems, Jeff Campbell, Schneider Transport, Bob Stempel, Clark Michigan, Santa Claus, Chase Manhattan Bank, Gainey Farm New!
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Competitive pressures are forcing companies to reassess the explicit and implicit employment contracts they have struck with employees over the last three decades. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
social architectural problem, planful opportunism, transformational drama, transformational leaders, mobilizing commitment, institutionalizing change, cultural uncertainty, car groups Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
General Motors, General Electric, Jack Welch, Burger King, Lee Iacocca, Mike Blumenthal, United States, Fisher Body, Jack Sparks, Jim Renier, John Harvey-Jones, Roger Smith, New York, Lloyd Reuss, Mary Ann Lawlor, Alex Cunningham, Fred Hammer, Honeywell Information Systems, Jeff Campbell, Schneider Transport, Bob Stempel, Clark Michigan, Santa Claus, Chase Manhattan Bank, Gainey Farm New!
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