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The paradox principles : how high-performance companies manage chaos, complexity, and contradiction to achieve superior results / the Price Waterhouse Change Integration Team.
1996
A 9 PAR
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The paradox principles : how high-performance companies manage chaos, complexity, and contradiction to achieve superior results / the Price Waterhouse Change Integration Team.
Description
xix, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN
0786304995
9780786304998 recycled paper
9780786304998 recycled paper
Alternate Call Number
A 9 PAR
Summary
The high-performance organizations of tomorrow must learn how to deftly balance the tensions and conflicts that challenge the progress and effectiveness of any large enterprise. The Paradox Principles shows managers how to face those conflicts and use paradox as a dynamic tool to achieve balance, sharpen focus, and drive performance within the organization.
Note
Price : US$ 17.47; Inv.# Supplier : Amazon.Com, Seattle, WA; Recd 24/08/98; Contents : Part 1. Chaos, complexity, contradiction : the new corporate reality : 1. The five paradox principles; Part 2. The first paradox principle : positive change requires significant stability : 2. Change and stability; 3. Fortifying change with stability; Part 3. The second paradox principle : to build an enterprise, focus upon the individual : 4. One individual at a time; 5. Building the enterprise; Part 4. The third paradox principle : focus directly on culture, indirectly : 6. Culture and performance; 7. Forging a new culture; Part 5. The fourth paradoxe principle : true empowerment requires forceful leadership : 8. Empowering through leadership: 9. Of carrots and sticks - and technology management; Part 6. The fifth paradox principle : in order to build, you must tear down : 10. Crafting strategy in the new environment; 11. The fall and rise of human resources management; 12. Measuring up; Part 7. Fifteen rules : a Manifesto on managing paradox;.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Chaos, complexity, contradiction: the new corporate reality
The first paradox principle: positive change requires significant stability
The second paradox principle: to build an enterprise, focus upon the individual
The third paradox principle: focus directly on culture, indirectly
The fourth paradox principle: true empowerment requires forceful leadership
The fifth paradox principle: in order to build, you must tear down
Fifteen rules: a manifesto on managing paradox.
The first paradox principle: positive change requires significant stability
The second paradox principle: to build an enterprise, focus upon the individual
The third paradox principle: focus directly on culture, indirectly
The fourth paradox principle: true empowerment requires forceful leadership
The fifth paradox principle: in order to build, you must tear down
Fifteen rules: a manifesto on managing paradox.
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Chicago : Irwin Professional Pub., c1996.
Language
English
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