Barbarians to Bureaucrats: Corporate Life Cycle Strategies:

Barbarians to Bureaucrats: Corporate Life Cycle Strategies: Corporate Life Cycle Strategies

"One day your sluggish company will taken to the sound of a beating drum and the sight of a competitor approaching at ramming speed. On deck will be a jut-jawed Barbarian....He will hardly blink as his target is ripped asunder, sending Aristocrats, Bureaucrats and their unfortunate shipmates to their corporate death....So goes Mr. Miller's tale, from which we can all profit." The Wall Street Journal

Barbarians to Bureaucrats presents a brilliant new solution to a stubborn old business problem: how to halt a company's descent into wasteful, stifling bureaucracy. Lawrence M. Miller, a management consultant for such corporate giants as Xerox and 3M, argues that corporations, like civilizations, have a natural life cycle, and that by identifying the stage your company is in, and the leaders associated with it, you can avert decline and continue to thrive.

Every company begins with the compelling new vision of a Prophet and the aggressive leadership of an iron-willed Barbarian, who implements the Prophet's ideas. New techniques and expansions are pushed through by the Builder and the Explorer, but the growth spawned by these managers can easily stagnate when the Administrator sacrifices innovation to order, and the Bureaucrat imposes tight control. And just as in civilizations, the rule of the Aristocrat, out of touch with those who do the real work, invites rebellion -- from employees, customers, and stockholders. It will take the Synergist, a business leader who balances creativity with order, to restore vitality and insure future growth.

Executives from major corporations have already put the powerful insights of Barbarians to Bureaucrats into practice to regenerate their own companies. Now you can use this brilliant, lucid, and dazzlingly original book to put your company -- and your career -- back on track.
Country USA
Brand Fawcett
Manufacturer Random House Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 0449905268_used
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 1990-01-14
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780449905265

Country	USA
Brand	Fawcett
Manufacturer	Random House Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	0449905268_used
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	1990-01-14
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780449905265

Barbarians to Bureaucrats: Corporate Life Cycle Strategies: Corporate Life Cycle Strategies

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