Corporation on a Tightrope: Balancing Leadership, Governance, and Technology in an Age of Complexity by John G. Sifonis Beverly Goldberg (1996-05-23) Hardcover

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Corporation on a Tightrope: Balancing Leadership, Governance, and Technology in an Age of Complexity by John G. Sifonis, Beverly Goldberg (1996) Hardcover

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Age Works: What Corporate America Must Do to Survive the Graying of the Workforce

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Corporation on a Tightrope: Balancing Leadership, Governance, and Technology in an Age of Complexity

(Business is no longer business as usual. The global marke...)

Business is no longer business as usual. The global market is in constant flux, as some nations come together, other fall apart, trading blocs emerge, and formerly closed doors reopen. At home, leadership roles and organizational structure have seen a sea change, with the vertically integrated, tightly knit organization seemingly headed for oblivion. And the changes keep happening faster and faster. For a firm to succeed in this highly complex environment, executives need a better understanding of the deep philosophic and extensive physical adaptations needed to reshape and prepare their company for an uncertain future. To provide this deeper understanding, John G. Sifonis, a business consultant, and Beverly Goldberg, a think tank executive, who together have decades of hands-on experience, visited dozens of companies, conducted numerous interviews, and then traveled to the Sante Fe Institute, to discuss their conclusions about practical applications of complexity theory to business. The result of their study is Corporation on a Tightrope, a brilliant blend of complexity theory and hard-earned business sense, that will help executives lead their organizations into the highly uncertain future. Sifonis and Goldberg show that the flexible organization of the future will be a complex adaptive system that responds to the effects of market-driven changes on its three critical components--governance, technology, and leadership. It will be an organization capable of self-renewal, constantly reshaping itself to seize opportunities as they emerge and quickly shrink when the market changes yet again. To help executives create this flexible firm, the authors provide seven practical tools, principles that when carefully put in place create a solid foundation for the future--an organization must set unwavering ethical standards; establish a social contract; maintain a lean organization based on core competencies; develop leadership skills at every level; be open to learning, encourage experimentation, and be innovative; avoid restructuring when it should be regoverning; and ensure connectivity. The authors illustrate each of these principles with fascinating examples taken from actual corporations, such as the ethical dilemma faced by Levi's, whose move overseas brought up the problem of lost American jobs and foreign child labor; the innovative arrangement between insurance company Allmerica Financial and DST Systems, a developer of automated business solutions; and the leadership of executives such as Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines, who projects enthusiasm and friendliness to the media, and has his workforce reflect the same image. Readers will find other instructive anecdotes on companies such as Boeing, Texas Instruments, Shell, and Intel. Spiced with pithy quotations from prominent executives and business experts such as Peter Drucker, Edward Filene, Charles Handy, and Sam Walton, plus top people at Johnson & Johnson, Unilever, and other major corporations, this is a sweeping, visionary book that will transform the way business leaders take their companies into the future.

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Dynamic Planning: The Art of Managing Beyond Tomorrow

(It is increasingly clear that the intelligent use of tech...)

It is increasingly clear that the intelligent use of technology makes a significant difference to a firm's ability to compete in today's complex global marketplace. Executives who are trying to integrate business and Information Technology strategies have made enormous strides. But it is still not enough, say Beverly Goldberg and John Sifonis. In Dynamic Planning, Goldberg and Sifonis offer leaders a tested, successful way to integrate new ideas and processes and technologies into any business, to improve their bottom line and to build a foundation for competing more effectively in the future. In this elegant blend of practical consulting experience and four years of extensive research, Goldberg (an executive at a New York-based think tank) and Sifonis (rated one of the top ten management consultants in America by Information Week) introduce the Dynamic Planning Framework SM, a pragmatic tool for business and IT managers. Dynamic planning is based on four interrelated principles: taking a long-term view; holistic thinking; openness to change; and integrating business and technology. By uncovering weaknesses, the Dynamic Planning Framework helps managers choose which processes to redesign. By encouraging comparisons with other organizations, it leads to improved quality and customer satisfaction. By instilling awareness of the need to constantly monitor developments in the economy, in technology, and in the social and political climate, it helps executives create and maintain a flexible, learning organization. Through numerous, exciting case histories of national and multinational companies, the book illustrates the activities involved in the Dynamic Planning Framework, including the Strategic Alignment Model, the groundbreaking process for integrating business and IT strategy, which is based on a landmark MIT project in which Sifonis participated. Other essential techniques include critical success factor analysis and assumption surfacing, possibilities analysis, enterprise planning, mission statement development, change management programs, and monitoring and evaluating performance. Dynamic Planning is a valuable tool for integrating both sides of a company--business strategy and information technology--to address today's issues and to gain tremendous long-term benefits in an uncertain, challenging business climate. It also teaches how to drive new ideas and technologies into the organization's culture so that they bring the benefits they promise--and that business is desperate for in this difficult and troubling decade.

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Overcoming High-Tech Anxiety: Thriving in a Wired World (Jossey-Bass Business & Management)

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For every person who cringes at the thought of yet another technological innovation, Beverly Goldberg offers this survival guide for succeeding in an increasingly wired world. She lays out six steps that will help the technically challenged accept the new state of constant change, come to grips with the way it's transformed the workplace, and master the skills needed to keep pace. She also delineates the rules for networking in the new connectivity and shows how to build trusting business relationships online. Readers will find in this guide useful tips on anticipating upcoming high-tech changes, support and guidance in dealing with technological change, and technical skills for keeping pace and finding success.

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Age Works: What Corporate America Must Do to Survive the Graying of the Workforce

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Age Works: What Corporate America Must Do to Survive the Graying of the Workforce (Paperback) - Common

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We Americans have always thought of ourselves as a young country -- brash, innovative, full of vigor. However, the uncomfortable truth is that America is getting older. The nation's median age was twenty-five in the 1960s, but today more than half of us are over thirty-five. By the middle of the next century, there will be more Americans in their seventies than in their teens. This demographic shi...

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Corporation on a Tightrope: Balancing Leadership, Governance and Technology in an Age of Complexity (Hardback) - Common

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Modern business firms face many problems resulting from changes in their competitive environment and the growth of new technologies. This book finds answers to these problems. The authors show how small changes in leadership, governance and technology can have huge consequences in an organization.

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{ OVERCOMING HIGH TECH ANXIETY: THRIVING IN A WIRED WORLD (JOSSEY-BASS BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT (HARDCOVER)) } by Goldberg, Beverly (AUTHOR) Jul-23-1999 Hardcover

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(Overcoming High-tech Anxiety: Thriving in a Wired World ) Author: Beverly Goldberg Sep-1999

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