Rational leadership : developing and redeveloping corporations / Paul Brooker, Margaret Hayward.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brooker, Paul, author.

Hayward, Margaret, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership.

Leadership--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This work takes examples of iconic corporations to show how business leaders can use rational methods to develop companies and inspire people with confidence. It studies General Motors, Toyota, McDonalds, Walmart, Intel, Armani, and eBay through autobiographical writings and historical sources.

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.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2023.

Previous edition: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 27, 2023).

ISBN:

0-19-889466-X

0-19-199779-X

0-19-889465-1

OCLC:

1409027636