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Rational leadership : developing and redeveloping corporations /

"This sixteen-chapter book is a second, much expanded edition of Rational Leadership: Developing Iconic Corporations. The new edition, subtitled Developing and Redeveloping Corporations, looks at the redeveloping as well as developing of corporations by rational leaders. Rational leadership ins...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Brooker, Paul (Author), Hayward, Margaret, 1940- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Leadership.
Leadership > Case studies.
Leadership > Études de cas.
Leadership
Business & Management.
Business and Management.
Electronic books.
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • I. DEVELOPING ICONIC CORPORATIONS
  • 1 Rational Business Leadership
  • Developing Corporations through Rational Leadership
  • Adapting, Calculating, and Deliberating
  • Example: Sandberg at Facebook and in Her Lean In
  • Using the Six Methods: Autobiographical Accounts
  • 2 General Motors: Sloan's My Years with General Motors
  • Adaptive Restructuring
  • Calculated Strategy
  • Institutionalized Deliberation
  • Sloanism versus Fordism
  • 3 Toyota: Ohno's Toyota Production System
  • Pioneering Production Innovations
  • Adapting to Japanese Conditions
  • Just-in-Time, `Lean' Production
  • Toyotaism versus Fordism
  • 4 McDonald's: Kroc's Grinding It Out
  • Adaptively Building a Fast-Food Empire
  • Calculating Strategy and Revenues
  • Diverse Deliberation
  • Globalized Adaptability
  • 5 Wal-Mart: Walton's Made in America
  • Adaptively Expanding Wal-Mart
  • Calculating Numbers and Strategy
  • Deliberation and Technology
  • Learning-A Seventh Rational Method
  • Dassault's Talisman Aviation Learning
  • 6 Intel: Grove's Only the Paranoid Survive
  • Learning to Adapt Intel
  • The Three-Stage Adaptive Framework
  • Experimentation and The HP Way
  • The Steve Jobs Way at Apple
  • 7 eBay: Whitman's The Power of Many
  • The Internet and eBay
  • Adapting and Deliberating
  • Calculating and Learning
  • Opportunity: eBayism Versus Amazonism
  • 8 Amazon: Bezos's Invent &amp
  • Wander
  • Adaptive Successes in the 2000s
  • Calculating and Deliberating
  • Amazon and Bezism in the 2010s-20s
  • From strategic balancing to VIT and AI
  • Learning and High-Tech Adaptations
  • 9 Giorgio Armani: Armani's Giorgio Armani
  • Adapting Fashion to New Times
  • Armanian versus Versacian Adaptations
  • Adaptive Legacies and Capability.
  • Roddick's Business as Unusual
  • II. REDEVELOPING CORPORATIONS
  • 10 Leaders Rationally Redeveloping Corporations
  • Using Rational Means-Transform, Reorient, Hybridize?
  • Satya Nadella Transforms Microsoft in His Hit Refresh
  • Risto Siilasmaa Reorients in His Transforming Nokia
  • Carly Fiorina Hybridizes HP in Her Tough Choices
  • 11 Nike: Knight's Shoe Dog
  • Developing His `Crazy Idea' into Nike Inc.
  • Dealing with a 1980s Development Crisis
  • Redevelopment and Michael Jordan
  • Reoriented Popular-Fashion Nike
  • 12 Chrysler: Lee's Iacocca and Lutz's Guts
  • Lee Iacocca Saves Chrysler from Disaster
  • The First Stage of 1980s Redevelopment
  • The Unfinished Reorientation of Chrysler
  • Bob Lutz, Guts, and Hybridizing with AMC
  • 13 IBM: Gerstner's Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?
  • Disruption, PCs, and Rectification
  • Lou Gerstner's Redevelopment of 1990s IBM
  • Reorienting to IT Services in the 1990s-2000s
  • Internet Comparison: Marissa Mayer's 2010s Yahoo
  • 14 Apple: Redeveloped by Steve Jobs
  • Jobs Redevelops Apple in the Late 1990s
  • Culturally and Structurally Transforming
  • Jobs Reorients in the 2000s by Diversifying
  • Apple's Third Stage: From iPod to iPhone
  • Reorienting a Platform in Cyberspace
  • Compared with Developing: How Google Works
  • 15 Charisma and Rational Redevelopment
  • From Redevelopment to Charisma: Against All Odds
  • Jorma Ollila's Charisma and a 2010s Redevelopment
  • Redeveloping versus Routinized Charisma
  • Carly Fiorina versus the HP Way in Tough Choices
  • 16 General Electric: Immelt's Hot Seat
  • Prelude: Jack Welch's Famous Redevelopment
  • Reorienting towards Financial Services
  • GE in the 2000s: Jeff Immelt's Hot Seat
  • Culture: Beth Comstock's Imagine It Forward
  • Immelt's Problematic 2010s Redevelopment
  • Conclusion
  • Summing Up
  • Broadening the Perspective
  • The Next Generation: 2020-50.
  • Addendum-Reconstructive Development: Post-Nazi Volkswagen
  • The Nazi Start-Up
  • Hirst's Structural and Cultural Transformations
  • Nordhoff Continues the Reconstructive Development
  • An Incongruous as well as Famous Case
  • APPENDIX 1: The Theory of Rational Leadership
  • Weber-The Prophet
  • Barnard-The Theorist
  • Later Theorists: Burns and Christensen
  • Machiavelli and Rational Leadership
  • APPENDIX 2: From IT Services to Cloud Services
  • The Coming of the Cloud in the 1990s
  • Gerstner's Missing Second Stage?
  • From SaaS to IaaS
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.