Beyond Workplace Two Thousand : Essential Strategies for the New American Corporation

by Boyett, Joseph H. (Author); Boyett, Jimmie T. (Author)

• ISBN13: 9780525937821
• ISBN10: 052593782X
• Format: Hardcover
• Publisher: E P Dutton

Summary

A sequel to the best-selling Workplace 2000, a prescient work about the restructuring of American business, discusses the necessary innovations that future businesses will have to face, providing a blueprint for surviving continuous change. 20,000 first printing. Tour.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Learning from Our Successes	p. 7
Creating the Customer-Sensitive, Knowledge-Creating, Agile Enterprise	p. 21
Strategies of the Past	p. 27
In Search of Core Competencies	p. 36
Competing on Core Competencies	p. 43
Downsizing Isn't Enough	p. 55
The New Organization	p. 63
The Changing Faces of the American Workforce	p. 79
Business Impact and Response	p. 92
Is It Help or Just Hoopla?	p. 100
Getting Beyond the Hoopla to the Real Issue	p. 109
How Individuals and Orgnizations Learn	p. 125
Dealing with Our Mental Models	p. 135
The Architecture of the Learning Organization	p. 145
The Skills Required for the New Workplace	p. 159
The New Learning Place for the New Workplace	p. 166
The Promise of Technology	p. 174
The Leader as a Facilitator of Change	p. 189
Facilitating the Shared Vision	p. 197
From Self-Management to the Dawn of Self-Leadership	p. 210
Appendix	p. 227
Notes	p. 239
Bibliography	p. 249
Index	p. 289
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