Developing Corporate Character: How to Successfully Change an Organization without Destroying It / Edition 1

by Alan L. Wilkins

Overview

Explains how an organization with strong character can more successfully adapt to change, develop new skills, and ensure a successful future without sacrificing established values or strengths. Offers step-by-step instructions on how to determine the readiness of an organization to change—and how to identify directions and strategies most likely to succeed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781555421335
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	01/16/1991
Series:	Management Series
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	6.32(w) x 9.41(h) x 0.97(d)

About the Author

Alan Wilkins explains how an organization with strong character can more successfully adapt to change, develop new skills, and ensure a successful future without sacrificing established values or strengths. He offers step-by-step instructions on how to determine the readiness of an organization to change—and how to identify directions and strategies most likely to succeed. And he reveals the signs that indicate the erosion of corporate character and suggests specific management practices to overcome such problems.

Table of Contents

PrefaceThe Author
1. What Happened on the Way to Excellence?
Part One: Making Changes While Preserving Character
2. Assess Corporate Charcater: Determining What to Keep and What to Change
3. Change the Organization Without Losing Character
Part Two: Developing and Implementing a Corporate Vision
4. Negotiate a Shared Vision: Finding a Future That Fits
5. Implement the Vision: Making the Dream Real
6. Influence Corporate Character from the Middle: Not Waiting for the CEO
Part Three: Perpetuating the Distinctive Corporate Character
7. Keep Faith with the Corporate Character: Upholding Key Commitments
8. Make the Corporate Character Adaptive: Maintaining Tension Between Tradition and Change
9. Create Corporate Character That Lasts: Honoring the Past and Changing the Future
Resources for Change: A Guide for Assessing Corporate Character in Organizations
ReferencesIndex