The Ever-Evolving Enterprise: Guidelines for Creating Your Company's Future

✍ Scribed by Stephen C. Harper

• Publisher: Praeger
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 310
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Most managers, author Stephen C. Harper writes, "do not understand what is involved in transforming organizations." His book, The Ever-Evolving Enterprise: Guidelines for Creating Your Company's Future, is intended to remedy that, focusing on ten areas proactive business leaders must address as they guide their companies through everyday activities and into the future.The book stresses the need for firms to evolve to remain in sync with an ever-changing marketplace. It explores the multifaceted nature of transformational leadership and offers specific guidelines, ideas, and techniques leaders can institute to seize new opportunities and develop innovative products and services that offer sustainable competitive advantages. But it also invites executives to take a closer look at how they lead their firms, promoting a fresh psychological framework that will keep business leaders—and their companies—anticipatory, perceptive, agile, innovative, results-oriented, and able to execute so that their visions become realities.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Introduction. Evolve or Die: The Nature of the Ever-Evolving Enterprise......Page 16
1. Guidelines for Transformational Change......Page 34
2. The Breakthrough Leader’s Role in Creating the Company’s Future......Page 64
3. Anticipatory Management: Carpé Futurum!......Page 90
4. Guidelines for Visioning and Positioning Your Company......Page 109
5. Establishing a Results-Oriented Performance Management System......Page 133
6. Corpreneurship: Creating Your Company’s Future by Maintaining the Entrepreneurial Edge......Page 151
7. Fostering Speed and Agility......Page 187
8. Becoming a Learning Organization......Page 212
9. Creating a Corporate Culture That Fosters Innovation......Page 243
10. Developing a Competitive Edge through Smart Execution......Page 266
Epilogue......Page 292
B......Page 296
C......Page 297
E......Page 299
F......Page 300
I......Page 301
L......Page 302
M......Page 303
P......Page 305
R......Page 306
S......Page 307
T......Page 308
Z......Page 309