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The Living Company: Habits for Survival in a Turbulent Business Environment (Paperback)
by Arie de Geus
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Strategic planning, Corporate planning, Sustainable growth, Business |
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Author: Arie de Geus
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press; 1st edition
Pub. in: June, 2002
ISBN: 1578518202
Pages: 240
Measurements: 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.7 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA00518
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- Awards & Credential -
Winner of The Edwin G. Booz Prize for the Most Innovative, Insightful Management Book of 1997 and The Financial Times/Booz-Allen & Hamilton Global Business Book Awards. |
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Arie de Geus is probably the most unique business thinker around. He combines the pragmatism of someone who had a very successful career at Shell with the curiosity of a talented academic. Behind this unique perspective is a deep appreciation for people. Most of us automatically relate to organizations like Newton related to the natural world, as one big physical mechanism. We casually talk about "aligning parts of the organization", "operating in organizational smokestacks or silos", and "fixing communications channels". Mr. de Geus helps us learn to think about organizations from the natural perspective, as living organisms, subject to many of the same limitations and forces as individual people are. When you read this book, you will become a much better and more effective person in all parts of your life. You will also feel better about yourself, and make those around you feel better about themselves. Read The Living Company today. This book is a wonderful gift to us all!
(From quoting Don Mitchell, USA)
Target readers:
Strategic planners, Corporate planners, HR Development professionals, Executives, Managers, Entrepreneurs, Management consultants, and MBAs.
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Arie de Geus worked for Royal Dutch/Shell for thirty-eight years and is widely credited with originating the concept of the learning organization. Since his retirement, he has advised many government and private institutions and has lectured throughout the world.
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From the Publisher:
Most companies do not survive the upheavals of change and competition over the long haul. But there are a few remarkable firms that have withstood the test of several centuries. What hidden lessons do they hold for the rest of us? Arie de Geus, the man who introduced the revolutionary concept of the learning organization, reveals the key to managing for a long and prosperous organizational life.
The Living Company speaks not just to aspiring leaders, but to anyone trying to adapt to a turbulent business environment. Only those steeped in the habits of a living company will survive.
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James (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-11 00:00>
This profound and uplifting book is for the leaders in all of us. Arie de Geus challenges most of the conventional wisdom in management thinking today. |
Frances Hesselbein (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-11 00:00>
Arie de Geus gives leaders of the future an indispensable guidebook in which commitment to values, people, learning, and innovation defines the living company. It's in my book bag. |
Francisco Varela (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-11 00:00>
In the recent boom of books about management in changing, turbulent times, Arie de Geus's stands in a class by itself. Unlike other writers, de Geus has spent an entire life doing that kind of management for one of the world's largest companies. Conceptually coherent and eminently practical, The Living Company is the genuine expression of a remarkable man. |
Chris Turner (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-11 00:00>
Every manager in America should read The Living Company. Arie de Geus makes a powerful and logical, yet gentle, case for managing organizations as communities of human beings instead of as economic entities. A brilliant book from a masterful storyteller. |
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