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Corporation on a tightrope : balancing leadership, governance, and technology in an age of complexity / John G. Sifonis and Beverly Goldberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sifonis, John G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leadership.
- Corporate governance.
- Competition.
- Information technology--Management.
- Information technology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (330 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Modern business firms face many problems resulting from changes in their competitive environment and the growth of new technologies. This book finds answers to these problems. The authors show how small changes in leadership, governance and technology can have huge consequences in an organization.
- Contents:
- PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CONTENTS; CHAPTER 1 No Silver Bullet, No Quick Fix; CHAPTER 2 Order Out of Complexity; CHAPTER 3 Navigating the Four C's-Complexity, Concurrency, Coherence, and Connectivity; CHAPTER 4 Creating a Pattern of Trust; CHAPTER 5 Enhancing the Role of the Board; CHAPTER 6 Understanding and Aligning Governance Models; CHAPTER 7 The Art of Accommodation; CHAPTER 8 The Changing Role of the CIO; CHAPTER 9 Building Multilevel Leadership; CHAPTER 10 Constructing the New Organization; CHAPTER 11 The Good Leader; CHAPTER 12 The Seven Principles of Balance
- EPILOGUE: A Contract for the FutureNOTES; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-296) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-52773-0
- 0-19-802534-3
- 1-4294-1552-5
- OCLC:
- 476006727
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