Business experts everywhere have been finding that corporations run not only on numbers, but on culture. In this revised and updated 2000 edition of "Corporate Cultures," organization consultants Terrence Deal and Allan Kennedy probe the conference rooms and corridors of corporate America to discover the key to business excellence. They find that the health of the bottom line is not ultimately guaranteed by attention to the rational aspects of managing-financial planning, personnel policies, cost controls, and the like. What's more important to long-term prosperity is the company's...
Business experts everywhere have been finding that corporations run not only on numbers, but on culture. In this revised and updated 2000 edition of "...
Allan A. Kennedy Terrence E. Deal Terrence E. Deal
The authors of the hugely influential Corporate Cultures reunite to assess the effects of the last two decades of management trends and to offer new strategies for achieving corporate renewal.
The authors of the hugely influential Corporate Cultures reunite to assess the effects of the last two decades of management trends and to offe...
"Allan Kennedy provocatively proposes that running corporations to benefit shareholders damages companies and the societies they operate in. He] has raised questions about managing for shareholder value that someone will have to answer."-Mark Henricks, American Way"Allan Kennedy has always seen the corporation in its full cultural context. Now he demonstrates that corporate managers have mistaken the shareholder value formula for the building of true wealth. His fascinating stories of companies make both great reading and a compelling case for the broadening of corporate objectives."-Stan...
"Allan Kennedy provocatively proposes that running corporations to benefit shareholders damages companies and the societies they operate in. He] has ...