Organizational decline and corporate turnarounds are historically at the height of interest, both theoretically as well as with regard to current practice. Characterized as the opposite of successful adaptation, organizational decline is the failure to anticipate, avoid, neutralize, and adapt to external or internal pressures, thus triggering a process of decreasing organizational resources over a specific period of time that might, but not necessarily needs to, end in corporate failure. Turnaround management is intuitively related to efficiency seeking, co- cutting, streamlining processes,...
Organizational decline and corporate turnarounds are historically at the height of interest, both theoretically as well as with regard to current prac...
Peter Gomez, University of St. Gallen Gilbert Spiderman Those were the days when Gilbert Probst presented his innumerable lectures on systems thinking to executives wearing a T-shirt showing a spidernet; the serious and respected professor impersonating the famous Spiderman? Far from it Systems thinking translated in German means Vernetztes Denken, in clumsy English Thinking in Networks just like the spiderweb. A more precise term would be Thinking in Circles, but Gilbert was always looking for good effects and this with great success, the executives loved it. Gilbert and myself were a good...
Peter Gomez, University of St. Gallen Gilbert Spiderman Those were the days when Gilbert Probst presented his innumerable lectures on systems thinking...
