1st Edition

Creating Excellence Managing Corporate Culture, Strategy, and Change in the New Age

By Craig R. Hickman, Michael A. Silva Copyright 1984
306 Pages
by Routledge

306 Pages
by Routledge

306 Pages
by Routledge

Creating Excellence , first published in 1984, proposes a rational yet visionary blend of approaches for a winning, strategy-driven culture that can provide you and your company with the confidence that gets results. Based on a programme of six essential leadership skills – vision, sensitivity, insight, versatility, focus, and patience – this step-by-step blueprint for organisational... Read more

Acknowledgments;  Preface;  Part One: The Foundation of Excellence;  1. Creating Excellence: Toward a New Age Renaissance  2. On Becoming a Strategic Thinker  3. On Becoming a Culture Builder  4. Matching Strategy and Culture;  Part Two: Six Skills for New Age Executives;  5. Creative Insight: Asking the Right Questions   6. Sensitivity: Doing unto Others 7. Vision: Creating the Future  8. Versatility: Anticipating Change  9. Focus: Implementing Change  10. Patience: Living in the Long Term;  Part Three: Creating Excellence;  11. Start-Up: Originating Strategy and Culture  12. Growth: Holding Strategy and Culture Together  13. Crisis: Radically Altering Strategy and Culture  14. Evolution: Fine-Tuning Strategy and Culture;  Bibliography;  Index

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Craig R. Hickman, Michael A. Silva