Rational Leadership: Developing and Redeveloping Corporations

✍ Scribed by Paul Brooker, Margaret Hayward

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 513
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright Page
Dedication
Preface to the Second Edition
Contents
List of Abbreviations
I. DEVELOPING ICONIC CORPORATIONS
1 Rational Business Leadership
Developing Corporations through Rational Leadership
Adapting, Calculating, and Deliberating
Example: Sandberg at Facebook and in Her Lean In
Using the Six Methods: Autobiographical Accounts
2 General Motors: Sloan's My Years with General Motors
Adaptive Restructuring
Calculated Strategy
Institutionalized Deliberation
Sloanism versus Fordism
3 Toyota: Ohno's Toyota Production System
Pioneering Production Innovations
Adapting to Japanese Conditions
Just-in-Time, Lean' Production Toyotaism versus Fordism 4 McDonald's: Kroc's Grinding It Out Adaptively Building a Fast-Food Empire Calculating Strategy and Revenues Diverse Deliberation Globalized Adaptability 5 Wal-Mart: Walton's Made in America Adaptively Expanding Wal-Mart Calculating Numbers and Strategy Deliberation and Technology Learning—A Seventh Rational Method Dassault's Talisman Aviation Learning 6 Intel: Grove's Only the Paranoid Survive Learning to Adapt Intel The Three-Stage Adaptive Framework Experimentation and The HP Way The Steve Jobs Way at Apple 7 eBay: Whitman's The Power of Many The Internet and eBay Adapting and Deliberating Calculating and Learning Opportunity: eBayism Versus Amazonism 8 Amazon: Bezos's Invent & Wander Adaptive Successes in the 2000s Calculating and Deliberating Amazon and Bezism in the 2010s–20s From strategic balancing to VIT and AI Learning and High-Tech Adaptations 9 Giorgio Armani: Armani's Giorgio Armani Adapting Fashion to New Times Armanian versus Versacian Adaptations Adaptive Legacies and Capability Roddick's Business as Unusual II. REDEVELOPING CORPORATIONS 10 Leaders Rationally Redeveloping Corporations Using Rational Means—Transform, Reorient, Hybridize? Satya Nadella Transforms Microsoft in His Hit Refresh Risto Siilasmaa Reorients in His Transforming Nokia Carly Fiorina Hybridizes HP in Her Tough Choices 11 Nike: Knight's Shoe Dog Developing HisCrazy Idea' into Nike Inc.
Dealing with a 1980s Development Crisis
Redevelopment and Michael Jordan
Reoriented Popular-Fashion Nike
12 Chrysler: Lee's Iacocca and Lutz's Guts
Lee Iacocca Saves Chrysler from Disaster
The First Stage of 1980s Redevelopment
The Unfinished Reorientation of Chrysler
Bob Lutz, Guts, and Hybridizing with AMC
13 IBM: Gerstner's Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?
Disruption, PCs, and Rectification
Lou Gerstner's Redevelopment of 1990s IBM
Reorienting to IT Services in the 1990s-2000s
Internet Comparison: Marissa Mayer's 2010s Yahoo
14 Apple: Redeveloped by Steve Jobs
Jobs Redevelops Apple in the Late 1990s
Culturally and Structurally Transforming
Jobs Reorients in the 2000s by Diversifying
Apple's Third Stage: From iPod to iPhone
Reorienting a Platform in Cyberspace
Compared with Developing: How Google Works
15 Charisma and Rational Redevelopment
From Redevelopment to Charisma: Against All Odds
Jorma Ollila's Charisma and a 2010s Redevelopment
Redeveloping versus Routinized Charisma
Carly Fiorina versus the HP Way in Tough Choices
16 General Electric: Immelt's Hot Seat
Prelude: Jack Welch's Famous Redevelopment
Reorienting towards Financial Services
GE in the 2000s: Jeff Immelt's Hot Seat
Culture: Beth Comstock's Imagine It Forward
Immelt's Problematic 2010s Redevelopment
Conclusion
Summing Up
Broadening the Perspective
The Next Generation: 2020-50
Addendum—Reconstructive Development: Post-Nazi Volkswagen
The Nazi Start-Up
Hirst's Structural and Cultural Transformations
Nordhoff Continues the Reconstructive Development
An Incongruous as well as Famous Case
APPENDIX 1: The Theory of Rational Leadership
Weber—The Prophet
Barnard—The Theorist
Later Theorists: Burns and Christensen
Machiavelli and Rational Leadership
APPENDIX 2: From IT Services to Cloud Services
The Coming of the Cloud in the 1990s
Gerstner's Missing Second Stage?
From SaaS to IaaS
Notes
References
Index