One from many : VISA and the rise of the chaordic organization / Dee Hock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hock, Dee, 1929-

Contributor:

VISA International.

Standardized Title:

Birth of the chaordic age

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Businessmen--United States--Biography.

Businessmen.

Bank credit cards--History.

Bank credit cards.

VISA International--History.

VISA International.

Hock, Dee, 1929-.

Hock, Dee.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Other Title:

VISA and the rise of the chaordic organization

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, CA : Berrett-Koehler, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Revised edition of Hock's award-winning Birth of the Chaordic Age, updated throughout and featuring two new chapters The only first-person account of the rise of VISA, the world's largest business enterprise--in 2004, VISA's products were used by more than a billion people at 20 million locations in more than 150 countries Hock, VISA's founder, details the revolutionary ""chaordic"" organizational philosophy that was instrumental in VISA's successHock skillfully weaves together the story of VISA with his own remarkable life story and elaborates the visionary philosophy that allowed VISA to t

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Old Monkey Mind; 2. A Lamb and the Lion of Life; 3. The Bloodied Sheep; 4. Retirement on the Job; 5. The Zoo; 6. The House of Cards; 7. Peeling the Onion; 8. The Impossible Imagined; 9. The Next to the Last Word; 10. The Corporation or the Cane; 11. And Then There Was One; 12. Quite Ordinary People; 13. The Victims of Success; 14. The Golden Links; 15. What's in a Name?; 16. Breaking the Mold; 17. The Successful Business Failure; 18. The Jeweled Bearing; 19. Out of Control and into Order; 20. The Emergent Phenomenon; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E

FG; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; About the Author

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-282-30049-0

9786612300493

1-60509-018-2

OCLC:

476226471