Managerial Excellence

by Stone, Nan; Gupta, Rajat

• ISBN13: 9780875846705
• ISBN10: 087584670X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-02-01
• Publisher: Harvard Business School Pr

Summary

Managerial Excellence presents some of the best ideas and practices of the past 15 years from the leading management voices of our time, including William J. Abernathy, Kim B. Clark, David A. Garvin, Charles Handy, Gary Hamel, Robert H. Hayes, James Moore, Michael Porter, C.K. Prahalad, James Brian Quinn, Wickham Skinner, and George Stalk, Jr. Since 1959, the McKinsey Foundation for Management Research has awarded prizes for the two best articles published each year in the Harvard Business Review. The pieces in this collection--all first place winners--are distinguished by their relevance to the real work of managers. From Hayes and Abernathy's Managing Our Way to Economic Decline in 1980 to Good Communication That Blocks Learning by Chris Argyris in 1994, these articles cover the gamut of strategic issues facing companies today and into the future. A Harvard Business Review Book.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xiii
Rajat Gupta
Preface	xvii
Nan Stone
1980
Managing Our Way to Economic Decline	1	(24)
Robert H. Hayes
William J. Abernathy
1981
The New Industrial Competition	25	(26)
William J. Abernathy
Kim B. Clark
Alan M. Kantrow
1982
Managing As If Tommorrow Mattered	51	(16)
Robert H. Hayes
David A. Garvin
1983
Quality on the Line	67	(22)
David A. Garvin
1984
Wrestling with Jellyfish	89	(18)
Richard J. Boyle
1985
Managing Innovation: Controlled Chaos	107	(20)
James Brian Quinn
1986
The Productivity Paradox	127	(10)
Wickham Skinner
1987
From Competitive Advantage to Corporate Strategy	137	(34)
Michael E. Porter
1988
Time---The Next Source of Competitive Advantage	171	(22)
George Stalk, Jr.
1989
Strategic Intent	193	(26)
Gary Hamel
C.K. Prahalad
1990
Motorola U: When Training Becomes an Education	219	(22)
William Wiggenhorn
1991
The Computerless Computer Company	241	(24)
Andrew S. Rappaport
Shmuel Halevi
1992
Balancing Corporate Power: A New Federalist Paper	265	(16)
Charles Handy
1993
Predators and Prey: A New Ecology of Competition	281	(22)
James F. Moore
1994
Good Communication That Blocks Learning	303	(16)
Chris Argyris
About the Contributors	319	(6)
McKinsey Award Second Place Winners	325	(2)
Index	327