Rethinking the corporation
Subtitle: new ways to govern and manage as science and technology produce exponential change
By: Forler Massnick
Publisher: Carfor Enterprises
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [Wausau, WI ]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780981590608
Subjects: Success in business; Management; Organizational change; Corporate reorganizations
Description: From the publisher: Rethinking the Corporation is more than a leadership guide. It's a survival guide for business leaders. With the unprecedented changes technology and science have wrought on society, traditional, twentieth-century, management-through-control techniques are crippling corporations and causing them to fall behind their competitors.
Table of contents: title: Technological change is accelerating; title: Business must change to keep pace; title: Society reorganizes itself periodically, resulting in fundamental changes in all of its institutions; title: Suddenness and magnitude of technological change in the last 50 years; title: Misoneism-the hatred, fear or intolerance of innovation or change; title: Vignette The Miraculous Letter; title: Business still operates as it has since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution; title: Vignette Sucking Through the Air; title: No model, no formula for restructuring corporations to succeed; title: Vignette Zeus, Greek God of Sky and Weather; title: Rethinking the corporation is about shifting paradigms; title: Vignette How Earth's Crust and Ones and Zeros Changed the World; title: The new employment paradigm; title: Vignette Better to Follow Than Lead?; title: The end of lifetime employment, alternatives to layoffs; title: Vignette About Fuzzballs and Bake-Offs; title: Financial management, a minefield with important opportunities; title: Vignette Just a laboratory curiosity; title: Capitalizing on intellectual capital; title: Vignette Adversity, Mother of invention: Maybe Yes, Maybe No!; title: Organization-big, small, or a blend, and onset of E-lance economy; title: Vignette From a Chicken Coop to Multi-Millions of Dollars; title: A distinction between positive and negative power; title: Vignette A Civilization Essential Only 30 Years Old; title: Dysfunctional meetings, a dirty little secret that wastes billions; title: Vignette He Stood on the Shoulders of Giants; title: The dawn of customer relationship management; title: Vignette The Harder I Work, the Luckier I Get; title: The growing importance of Independent Professionals; title: Vignette An Industry Born With the Idea of "A Truthful Likeness"; title: The vital, rapidly changing role of customer satisfaction measurement; title: Vignette Bluetooth Has Nothing to Do with Dental Hygiene; title: A new role for Human Resources; title: Knowledge assets dwarf book assets; title: Independent Professionals defined; title: An alternative to layoffs; title: The Manufacturing Extension Partnership; title: Scanning for scientific and technological developments; title: The nimble, opportunistic company of the future.