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The global meltdown, the concomitant demise of legendary corporate behemoths, and the challenge of competing in a world marked by unprecedented complexities, volatility, discontinuities, and ambiguities, have pushed discussions on survival and excellence to the forefront. Towards the Next Orbit: A Corporate Odyssey brings forth ideas, experiences, studies, insights, and suggestions from renowned theoreticians and practitioners towards changing and succeeding in a new world.
The first part of the book comprises rich conceptual papers and research-based empirical papers written primarily by thought leaders from all over the world. The second part comprises dialogs with persons who are well known in the business landscape as “change masters.” The chapters discuss cutting-edge ideas in the areas of corporate behavior, positioning, growth, leadership, employee relations, and so on.
Together, the articles and interviews will help readers develop perspective, cognitive framework, behavioral repertoire, and portfolio of practices for making the transition from simply functioning to achieving excellence.
Finding the Future and Making it Happen
Finding the Future and Making it Happen
Every few hundred years in western history there occurs a sharp transformation. We cross… a divide. Within a few short decades society rearranges itself, its world view; its basic values; its social and political structure; its arts; its key institutions. Fifty years later, there appears a new world… we are currently living through such a transformation. (Drucker, 1993: 1)
In my book, The Strategic Leader: New Tactics for a Globalizing World I present a puzzle posed as questions to leaders who want to find the future and to make it happen must solve it. What is going on here? Do we need to jump the curve? What needs to happen here? ...
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