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The Age of Heretics Art Kleiner

The Age of Heretics By Art Kleiner

The Age of Heretics by Art Kleiner


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Praise for The Age of Heretics A remarkable job of showing how revolutionary change in management originated. These are no mere 'currents of change,' but rather a thundering waterfall of intellectual and moral forces reshaping business.

The Age of Heretics Summary

The Age of Heretics: A History of the Radical Thinkers Who Reinvented Corporate Management by Art Kleiner

In this second edition of his bestselling book, author Art Kleiner explores the nature of effective leadership in times of change and defines its importance to the corporation of the future. He describes a heretic as a visionary who creates change in large-scale companies, balancing the contrary truths they can't deny against their loyalty to their organizations. The Age of Heretics reveals how managers can get stuck in counterproductive ways of doing things and shows why it takes a heretical point of view to get past the deadlock and move forward.

The Age of Heretics Reviews

An inspiring and enlightening reading for any business person who fears their ideas may face initial rejection. (The Midwest Book Review, October 2008)

Voted a Best Business Book of 2008 by the Miami Herald

About Art Kleiner

THE AUTHOR

ART KLEINER is the editor-in-chief of the quarterly magazine strategy+business (http://www.strategy-business.com). He is the author or coauthor of several acclaimed business books, and is a faculty member at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. His articles have been published in a variety of places, including Wired, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, and The New York Times Magazine.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Warren Bennis.

Preface by Steven Wheeler and Walter McFarland.

To the Reader.

1. Monastics: Corporate Culture and Its Discontents, 1945 to Today.

2. Pelagians: National Training Laboratories, 1947-1962.

3. Reformists: Workplace Redesign at Procter & Gamble and the Gaines Dog Food Plant in Topeka, 1961-1973.

4. Protesters: Saul Alinsky, FIGHTON, Campaign GM, and the Shareholder Activism Movement, 1964-1971.

5. Mystics: Royal Dutch/Shell's Scenario Planners, 1967-1973.

6. Lovers of Faith and Reason: Heretical Engineers at Stanford Research Institute and MIT, 1955-1971.

7. Parzival's Dilemma: Edie Seashore, Chris Argyris, and Warren Bennis, 1959-1979.

8. Millenarians: Erewhon, the SRI Futures Group, Herman Kahn, Royal Dutch/Shell, and Amory Lovins, 1968-1979.

9. The Rapids: Hayes and Abernathy, Tom Peters, W. Edwards Deming, the Creators of GE Work-Out, and Other Synthesizers of Management Change, 1974-1982.

Bibliography.

Notes.

Acknowledgments.

About the Author.

Index.

Additional information

GOR004801067
9780470190708
0470190701
The Age of Heretics: A History of the Radical Thinkers Who Reinvented Corporate Management by Art Kleiner
Used - Very Good
Hardback
John Wiley & Sons Inc
2008-08-08
432
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