A leading management consultant analyzes the "soul" of the corporation defining eight primary values to animate the spirit of commerce and reaffirming traditional American ideals

American Spirit: Visions of a New Corporate Culture

Miller, Lawrence M.

Business & Money

GRAND CENTRAL PUB.

Behavior management: The new science of managing people at work

Management & Leadership

wiley

"One day your sluggish company will taken to the sound of a beating drum and the sight of a competitor approaching at ramming speed. On deck will be a jut-jawed Barbarian....He will hardly blink as his target is ripped asunder, sending Aristocrats, Bureaucrats and their unfortunate shipmates to their corporate death....So goes Mr. Miller's tale, from which we can all profit." The Wall Street JournalBarbarians to Bureaucrats presents a brilliant new solution to a stubborn old business problem: how to halt a company's descent into wasteful, stifling bureaucracy. Lawrence M. Miller, a management consultant for such corporate giants as Xerox and 3M, argues that corporations, like civilizations, have a natural life cycle, and that by identifying the stage your company is in, and the leaders associated with it, you can avert decline and continue to thrive.Every company begins with the compelling new vision of a Prophet and the aggressive leadership of an iron-willed Barbarian, who implements the Prophet's ideas. New techniques and expansions are pushed through by the Builder and the Explorer, but the growth spawned by these managers can easily stagnate when the Administrator sacrifices innovation to order, and the Bureaucrat imposes tight control. And just as in civilizations, the rule of the Aristocrat, out of touch with those who do the real work, invites rebellion -- from employees, customers, and stockholders. It will take the Synergist, a business leader who balances creativity with order, to restore vitality and insure future growth.Executives from major corporations have already put the powerful insights of Barbarians to Bureaucrats into practice to regenerate their own companies. Now you can use this brilliant, lucid, and dazzlingly original book to put your company -- and your career -- back on track.

Barbarians to Bureaucrats: Corporate Life Cycle Strategies

Biography & History

Random House Value Publishing

Identifies the many roles within companies that are taken up by workers--including "barbarians," "Builder," "Prophet," and "Synergist"--and shows the qualities needed to perform in these roles that can strengthen corporate growth

Barbarians to Bureaucrats

Clarkson/Potter

Implementing the tools of lean management has become common. But these tools comprise only half of what is required. The culture, the social system, is controlled by line management methods and behavior and this must now be the focus of improvement efforts. Line management must lead and support a culture of total commitment, responsibility and customer focus. Lean Team Management is a guide to implementing lean management at every level of the organization. Lean Team Management takes the reader through the vital steps of managing process and performance to customer needs. This is the result of thirty years of hands-on experience implementing lean management in organizations of every kind.

Lean Team Management: How to Create Lean Management & Lean Organization

RJ Communications

Getting to Lean is a guide to transformational change. It is about creating the future. It provides a process for significant and large scale change in culture and capabilities to build a sustainable lean enterprise. Getting to Lean presents whole-system architecture which engages stakeholders in aligning the systems and structures of the organization toward a common purpose.

Getting to Lean - Transformational Change Management

Finance

Miller Management Press, LLC

This book examines the new values, visions, and spirit that are arising in the American corporation. It is not concerned merely with the techniques of the new management, it is concerned with its soul. Eight primary values are identified with this new management in part one. Part two presents a model for creating strategic and tactical changes to build the new corporate culture.

William Morrow Company

Beyond Reengineering: A Guidebook For Designing Work Processes And Human Systems For High Performance Capabilities

Whole System Architecture: Beyond Reengineering : Designing the High Performance Organization

Miller Consulting Group

Change Management : Creating the Dynamic Organization Through Whole System Architecture

Uhlfelder, Helene F.

Economics

The Leader's Guide to Change Management: Creating & Sustaining a Dynamic Organization

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American Spirit: Visions of a New Corporate Culture

Behavior management: The new science of managing people at work

Barbarians to Bureaucrats: Corporate Life Cycle Strategies

Barbarians to Bureaucrats

Lean Team Management: How to Create Lean Management & Lean Organization

Getting to Lean - Transformational Change Management

American Spirit: Visions of a New Corporate Culture

Whole System Architecture: Beyond Reengineering : Designing the High Performance Organization

Change Management : Creating the Dynamic Organization Through Whole System Architecture

The Leader's Guide to Change Management: Creating & Sustaining a Dynamic Organization