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9780333928981

Quantum Leap Tools for Managing Companies in the New Economy

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    9780333928981

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    0333928989

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-01-06
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

Globalization, networking, and new communications technology mean that traditionally-oriented companies are being replaced by new, nonlinear, "hypertext" structures. However, for many, these are still a mystery. Based on his extensive practical experience as CEO of a multinational industrial group, Jacques Chaize provides simple tools enabling all readers to better understand and live with the hypertext corporation and feel ready to take the leap into the future.

Author Biography

Jacques Chaize is Chief Executive Officer of Danfoss International.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix
Introduction xi
Part I Have We Become Obsolete? 1(90)
The Death Mask of Narcissus World
5(19)
The roots of globalization
8(7)
A world become global: the company
15(9)
Crowded Market Places and Silent Streets Customers
24(23)
The revolution in the market place
25(12)
The knowledge revolution
37(10)
The Company is Virtual - We are Not Organization
47(27)
The four gateways of the network
48(3)
Trust is in
51(8)
`Tool Story' - the insurgence of tools
59(2)
Eggs and ideas
61(8)
The levers that move the network
69(5)
Citizens or Visitors? The Company and Society
74(17)
Society's quantum leap
76(2)
Work quantum leap
78(8)
The quantum leap of mankind
86(5)
Part II Towards the Hypertext Company 91(112)
Knowing How to Become a Short Treatise on Change
93(24)
The two cultures of change
95(5)
Reason and feelings
100(11)
Knowing how to become: the meta-rules
111(6)
The Fruit is Blind, only the Tree can See the Three Energies
117(21)
First source of energy: the customers
122(4)
Second source of energy: people
126(4)
Third source of energy: organization
130(5)
The four laws of intelligence capital
135(3)
How to Change a Wheel Without Stopping the Car Action
138(21)
Know-how and `knowing how to change'
139(5)
The company flying like a bird
144(8)
The hypertext hierarchy
152(7)
I Do Dialogue, and So Do You? Regulation
159(14)
Dialogue is necessary
160(1)
Dialogue is difficult
161(8)
Dialogue is a motor
169(4)
The Robin, the Titmouse and the Bottle of Milk Learning
173(17)
Volvo car factory in Ghent
173(1)
The stakes
174(1)
The management of knowledge
175(5)
The management of learning
180(10)
The Lessons of Hernan Cortes Enterprise
190(13)
Movement
190(4)
Balance
194(5)
Eco-nomy
199(4)
Conclusion 203(1)
Bibliography 204(2)
Index 206

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