Corporate Plasticity
How to Change, Adapt, and Excel
(Sprache: Englisch)
What do The Beatles, Apollo 13, the Roman military, a pack of wolves, and the very best companies in the world all have in common? Answer: Plasticity. They can change, adapt, and excel as the situation requires.
In most organizations,...
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What do The Beatles, Apollo 13, the Roman military, a pack of wolves, and the very best companies in the world all have in common? Answer: Plasticity. They can change, adapt, and excel as the situation requires.
In most organizations, strategy and functional excellence get the most attention. But even the best of either provides only limited long-term advantage. Highly effective organizations add Plasticity as a third dimension and rack up stellar breakthroughs again and again. It is the key ingredient that allows strategy and functional excellence to deliver value.
As the authors show in Corporate Plasticity: How to Change, Adapt, and Excel, Plasticity also enables great organizations to break down barriers and collaborate in the pursuit of a common objective, and to reconfigure or rewire themselves to face down challenges or reach ever-stronger competitive positions.
Through entertaining stories and astute analysis, this book demonstrates that Plasticity spurs sports teams to become champions, companies to book record earnings, and artists to attain worldwide fame. You can use its principles adaptability, flexibility, fluid networks and roles, lofty goals, and innovation, among others to achieve operational excellence, tear down silos, and create more vibrant, creative enterprises. Your organization can become not just highly profitable and fun to work for, but an organization that can change the world.
Plasticity allows an organization to choose its own destiny, become versatile, and dare more than others. Its success lies in a set of abilities called the Magic 7:
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Silo thinking? Poor collaboration? Weak earnings? Strategies that gain no traction? Corporate Plasticity: How to Change, Adapt, and Excel is the answer. It shows you how to cultivate each of the seven disciplines to infuse Plasticity in an organization. That along with razor-sharp strategy and crisp execution will unleash the power you need to reach both personal and corporate goals. You might even change the world.
- Purpose: Your company must discover, select, and express what it is meant for.
- Focus: Your company must have the courage to ignore everything that is not in line with its purpose, and then see that purpose through.
- Culture: Your companymust create the conditions that allow people to work across boundaries and outside of predefined roles.
- Spirit: Your company must inspire people to feel part of a cause that is bigger than they are.
- Networking: Your company must provide the means, freedom, and encouragement for people to nurture and grow their internal and external networks continuously.
- Knowledge: Your company must encourage experts to provide their knowledge and make it readily available to everyone who needs it.
- Leadership: Your company's leaders must model and personify the characteristics they want others to adopt.
Silo thinking? Poor collaboration? Weak earnings? Strategies that gain no traction? Corporate Plasticity: How to Change, Adapt, and Excel is the answer. It shows you how to cultivate each of the seven disciplines to infuse Plasticity in an organization. That along with razor-sharp strategy and crisp execution will unleash the power you need to reach both personal and corporate goals. You might even change the world.
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Introduction: The Principles of Plasticity1) The Beatles: It's all about the team
2) The Miracle on Ice: Adapt and win
3) Focus: Dutch yachtsman Conny an Rietschoten on elimanating all but theessentials
4) Albert Einstein: Seeing the big picture
5) Apollo 13: NASA's mission control approach saves the day
6) D-Day: Coordination and courage
7) Baldwin Steam Locomotives: The consequences of myopic thinking
8) Teleonomy: How purpose is built into life itself
9) Giuseppe Arcimboldo: Making a harmonious whole out of disparate parts
10) The Golden Ratio and Fibonacci Series: Rhythms at the root of humanactivities
11) Communication of Ants: Nodal communication and optimization algorithms
12) Public spaces: Nourish networking and collaboration
13) Human Brain: Neuroplasticity and modular construction
14) The Roman Military: Why the maniple superseded the phalanx
15) Rugby: Blind passes to waiting receivers scores trys
16) Wikipedia: Why the breakthrough Encarta died at age 16
17) Billy Beane's Oakland Athletics: Buying wins instead of players
18) Channel Tunnel: 15 organizations become one to succeed
19) NATO Forces: Beating back bureaucracy
20) Kodak: Voices for change ignored
21) Singapore's Changi Airport: Pride and culture makes it the best
22) The European Union: Poor strategy, little functional excellence, and noplasticity
23) Kent Redford: Melding conservation and synthetic biology
24) Apple Computer: The power of purpose
25) Google: The power of culture
26) Volkswagen: The power of spirit
27) Wartsila: The power of leadership
28) The Human Brain Project: The power of networking
29) Star Trek: The power of knowledge
30) Guns, germs and steel: The power of focus
31) Wolves: The power of organization
32) The Symphoney Orchestra Conductor: How to lead
33) Director and Actor: Discovering people who can contribute
32) Humans: Plastic to their core
Autoren-Porträt von Christian Schuh, Alenka Triplat, Wayne Brown, Wim Plaizier, A.T. Kearney, Laurent Chevreux
Christian Schuh is the leader of A.T. Kearney's Supply Management Practice in EMEA and is based in Vienna, Austria. He joined A.T. Kearney 17 years ago and has since then led multiple projects for clients in the automotive, construction equipment, defense, high tech, packaging, and steel industry in Austria, China, France, Germany, Russia, the UK, Ukraine, and the USA. His areas of expertise include strategic sourcing, high-end R&D, and organization. He is the author of various books (most notably The Purchasing Chessboard), monographs, and articles. He is coauthor of The CPO, published by Apress. Before he joined A.T. Kearney, he worked several years for Unilever. Schuh studied aeronautical engineering at TU Graz (Austria) and holds a doctorate in business administration. He lives in the historic city center of Vienna.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Christian Schuh , Alenka Triplat , Wayne Brown , Wim Plaizier , A.T. Kearney , Laurent Chevreux
- 2014, 2014, X, 168 Seiten, Maße: 12,8 x 20,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 1430267496
- ISBN-13: 9781430267492
Sprache:
Englisch
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