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Art Kleiner is the editor-in-chief of the quarterly magazine strategy+business (http://www.strategy-business.com). He is the author or coauthor of several acclaimed business books, and is a faculty member at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. His articles have been published in a variety of places, including Wired, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, and The New York Times Magazine.
Foreword | p. xi |
Preface | p. xv |
To the Reader | p. xix |
Monastics: Corporate Culture and Its Discontents, 1945 to Today | p. 1 |
Pelagians: National Training Laboratories, 1947-1962 | p. 19 |
Reformists: Workplace Redesign at Procter & Gamble and the Gaines Dog Food Plant in Topeka, 1961-1973 | p. 48 |
Protesters: Saul Alinsky, FIGHTON, Campaign GM, and the Shareholder Activism Movement, 1964-1971 | p. 85 |
Mystics: Royal Dutch/Shell's Scenario Planners, 1967-1973 | p. 121 |
Lovers of Faith and Reason: Heretical Engineers at Stanford Research Institute and MIT, 1955-1971 | p. 155 |
Parzival's Dilemma: Edie Seashore, Chris Argyris, and Warren Bennis, 1959-1979 | p. 186 |
Millenarians: Erewhon, the SRI Futures Group, Herman Kahn, Royal Dutch/Shell, and Amory Lovins, 1968-1979 | p. 226 |
The Rapids: Hayes and Abernathy, Tom Peters, W. Edwards Deming, the Creators of GE Work-Out, and Other Synthesizers of Management Change, 1974-1982 | p. 269 |
Bibliography | p. 321 |
Notes | p. 337 |
Acknowledgments | p. 373 |
About the Author | p. 381 |
Index | p. 383 |
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