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When giants learn to dance : Mastering the challenges of strategy, management and careers in the 1990s

This book provides a comprehensive business strategy in dealing with the pressing challenges that face companies and careers today. It aims to become the definitive guide to business success in the 1990s. Other books by the author include "Men and Women of the Corporation" and "The Change Masters".
Print Book, English, 1989
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Unwin, London, 1989
415 s.
9780044406709, 0044406703
856806554
Part 1 Competing in the corporate Olympics: small world, big horizons - the challenge; getting in shape for the contest - the reponse. Part 2 Doing more with less - strategies for post-entrepreneurial management: desperately seeking synergies - the promise and the perils of restructuring; achieving synergies - value added, value multiplied; becoming PALS - pooling, allying, and linking across companies; putting powerinto partnerships; cutting channels - the push for new business streams; swimming in newstreams - mastering innovation dilemmas. Part 3 Jobs, money, people - consequences of the post-entrepreneurial revolution: from status to contribution - the changing basis for pay; the new workforce meets the changing workplace - opportunity and overload; from climbing to hopping - the contingent job and the post-entrepreneurial career; the pursuit of skill and reputation - security and loyalty in a post-entrepreneurial world. Part 4 Beyond the cowboy and the corpocrat - a call to action.