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Fad Surfing In The Boardroom Eileen Shapiro

Fad Surfing In The Boardroom By Eileen Shapiro

Fad Surfing In The Boardroom by Eileen Shapiro

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Summary

Fad Surfing (n): the practice of riding the crest of the latest management panacea and then paddling out again in time to ride the next one always absorbing for managers and lucrative for consultants frequently disastrous for organizations.

Fad Surfing In The Boardroom Summary

Fad Surfing In The Boardroom: Managing In The Age Of Instant Answers by Eileen Shapiro

Fad Surfing (n): the practice of riding the crest of the latest management panacea and then paddling out again in time to ride the next one always absorbing for managers and lucrative for consultants frequently disastrous for organizations.

About Eileen Shapiro

Eileen Shapiro is president of The Hillcrest Group, Inc., a management consulting firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Formerly with McKinsey & Company, Inc., she received her MBA from Harvard Business School.

Table of Contents

* Introductions: Surfs Up!: The High-Stakes Thrills of Fad Surfing in the Boardroom Which Way Is Up? Setting the Overall Direction * That Vision Thing: Picturing the Future When Your Crystal Ball Isnt 20/20 * Mission Indecipherable: Getting to Content * A Gamblers Guide to Setting Direction: Why a Companys Real Strategy Is in Its Book of Bets Life in the Upside-Down Pyramid: Facilitating Collective Action * The Flat-Org Theory of Modern Management: Organizing for People Instead of For Theories * Decoding Environments and Other Organizational Fantasies: Who Knows Where the Information Goes? The Empowerment Conundrum: Enhancing Individual Action * Empower Them Please (But Not Too Much): Its the Power Part That Creates the Rub * Judgment, Empowerment, and the Parable of the Talents: Why Judgment Is Essential to Empowerment Through a Glass Darkly; Determining What the Customers Really Want * The (Inharmonious) Voice of the Customer: Seeking the Irritating Whine That Must Be Heard * Customer Focus and Other Product Development Delusions: What Love Has Got To Do With It Fuzzy Logic; Moving From Customers to Strategy * The Value Revolution and the Death of Brand Loyalty: Customers Revenge on Shortsighted Companies * Procrustean Strategies: Why the Real Question Is, How Differentiated, and at What Costs More Instant Answers; Paddling Out to the Biggest Waves * Total Quality Mayhem: When Cookbook Compliance Creates Quality Quagmires * Reengineering and the Labors of Hercules: Theres More Than One Way to Leap to Breakthrough Results * Low-Cost Migraines: How to Cost Cut Your Way to Big Trouble * Endnote: The Pilots Art: A Look at the Courage to Manager in the Age of Instant Answers * The Expanded Fad Surfers Dictionary of Business Basics

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GOR001884669
9780201441956
0201441950
Fad Surfing In The Boardroom: Managing In The Age Of Instant Answers by Eileen Shapiro
Eileen Shapiro
Used - Very Good
Paperback
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
19961007
272
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