The Age of Heretics: A History of the Radical Thinkers Who Reinvented Corporate Management, 2nd Edition

by Art Kleiner; Foreword by: Warren Bennis (University of Southern California); Foreword by: Steven Wheeler; Foreword by: Walt McFarland

• ISBN13: 9780470380055
• ISBN10: 0470380055
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-10-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

In this second edition of his bestselling book, author Art Kleiner explores the nature of effective leadership in times of change and defines its importance to the corporation of the future. He describes a heretic as a visionary who creates change in large-scale companies, balancing the contrary truths they can't deny against their loyalty to their organizations. The Age of Heretics reveals how managers can get stuck in counterproductive ways of doing things and shows why it takes a heretical point of view to get past the deadlock and move forward.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface by Steven Wheeler and Walter McFarland

To the Reader

Monastics: Corporate Culture and Its Discontents, 1945 to Today

Pelagians: National Training Laboratories, 1947û1962

Reformists: Workplace Redesign at Procter & Gamble and the Gaines Dog Food Plant in Topeka, 1961û1973

Protesters: Saul Alinsky, FIGHTON, Campaign GM, and the Shareholder Activism Movement, 1964û1971

Mystics: Royal Dutch/ShellÆs Scenario Planners, 1967û1973

Lovers of Faith and Reason: Heretical Engineers at Stanford Research Institute and MIT, 1955û1971

ParzivalÆs Dilemma: Edie Seashore, Chris Argyris, and Warren Bennis, 1959û1979

Millenarians: Erewhon, the SRI Futures Group, Herman Kahn, Royal Dutch/Shell, and Amory Lovins, 1968û1979

The Rapids: Hayes and Abernathy, Tom Peters, W. Edwards Deming, the Creators of GE Work-Out, and Other Synthesizers of Management Change, 1974û1982

Bibliography

Notes

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Index

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