Synopses & Reviews
Everywhere we look today, powerful new forces are reshaping the world. Traditional boundaries between industries, disciplines, and countries are blurring, and the old rules of management no longer make sense in a post-industrial world. This book is a meeting of the minds. It provides a unique opportunity to gain insights into tomorrow from today's most highly regarded business thinkers whose cutting-edge advice has helped to guide many thousands of corporations through the changing business landscape. Now, in a series of original and inspirational contributions, they define the new paradigm that will transform business and society in the 21st Century. Rethinking the Future: Rethinking Business Principles, Competition, Control, Leadership, Markets and the World looks at how organizations can be redesigned to survive and thrive in tomorrow's hypercompetitive global environment. Rethinking the Future gives readers a framework for understanding the big picture. It provides a panoramic perspective that is accessible and lies within an easily understood context. This book takes the place of an entire bookshelf on business strategy. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with business success beyond the next quarter.
Synopsis
This volume provides insights from business thinkers on their visions of tomorrow. Powerful new forces are reshaping the world today. Traditional boundaries between industries and disciplines are rapidly blurring, and the old rules of management no longer make sense in a post-industrial world.
This book looks at how organizations can be redesigned to survive and thrive in tomorrow's hyper-competitive global environment; how they can learn to adapt to change and improve their performance; and how they should be -managed-, if at all. It examines the changing role of the leader and the powerful influence of corporate culture. It probes the universal principles and values that ultimately govern the success of any leader or organization. It also looks at strategies for creating tomorrow's competitive advantage and tomorrow's markets. It offers a glipse of the future of marketing, which will be driven by new demographics, new global markets and new technology.
Most importantly of all, the book gives readers a framework for understanding the big picture. It provides a panoramic perspective that puts all the pieces together in a coherent and easily understandable context. Tomorrow's executives will need to understand business at a far more global and synergistic level than ever before, and to feel comfortable leading people who have learned to manage themselves.
Contributors include Stephen Covey, Charles Handy, Michael Porter, Gary Hamel, C.K. Prahalad, Al Ries and Jack Trout, Philip Kotler, Regis McKenna, Michael Hammer, Eli Goldratt, Peter Senge, John Kotter, Warren Bennis, John Naisbitt, Lester Thurow and Kevin Kelly.
Synopsis
From this all-star cast of today's most highly-regarded business philosophers, futurists and practitioners comes a panoramic perspective of how organizations can be redesigned to thrive in tomorrow's hyper-competitive global environment. In this meeting place of minds, Rethinking the Future is an original and inspiring collection that presents a unique opportunity to gain insights from this elite group as they define the new paradigm that will revolutionize business and society in the next millennium.
Synopsis
The worlds foremost business thinkers explore organizations can be redesigned to survive and thrive in tomorrows hypercompetitive global environment.
Synopsis
The worlds foremost business thinkers look at how organizations can be redesigned to survive and thrive in tomorrows hypercompetitive global environment, giving readers a framework for understanding the big picture. Essential reading for anyone concerned with business success beyond the next quarter, Rethinking the Future gives a panoramic perspective in an accessible context.
Description
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents
Rethinking business / Rowan Gibson -- Finding sense in uncertainty / Charles Handy -- Putting principles first / Stephen Covey -- Creating tomorrow's advantages / Michael Porter -- Strategies for growth / CK Prahalad -- Reinventing the basis for competition / Gary Hamel -- Beyond the end of management / Michael Hammer -- Focusing on constraints, not costs / Eli Goldratt -- Through the eye of the needle / Peter Senge -- Becoming a leader of leaders / Warren Bennis -- Cultures and coalitions / John Kotter -- Focused in a fuzzy world / Al Ries & Jack Trout -- Mapping the future marketplace / Philip Kotler -- From nation states to networks / John Naisbitt -- Changing the nature of capitalism / Lester Thurow -- The new biology of business / Kevin Kelly.