Navigating Change : How CEOs, Top Teams, and Boards Steer Transformation

by Hambrick, Donald

• ISBN13: 9780875847849
• ISBN10: 0875847846
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-12-01
• Publisher: Perseus Distribution Services

Summary

Captures pragmatic insights on institutional leadership and governance in the face of profound and continuous change, as perceived by prominent CEOs, consultants, and academic experts. DLC: Leadership.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
[I] CEOs	3	(110)
1. The CEO-in the Context of Discontinuous Change	3	(25)
David A. Nadler
Jeffrey D. Heilpern
2. Corporate Transformation and Senior Leadership	28	(10)
James R. Houghton
3. Vicissitudes of Leadership	38	(32)
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
4. Beyond the Russian Doll Management Model: New Personal Competencies for New Management Roles	70	(28)
Christopher A. Bartlett
Sumantra Ghoshal
5. Does It Matter Who Is the Boss? The Substance and Symbolism of Top Leadership	98	(15)
Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld
[II] Top Management Teams	113	(90)
6. Lessons in Teamwork	113	(10)
Paul A. Allaire
7. Corporate Coherence and the Top Management Team	123	(18)
Donald C. Hambrick
8. Conflict and Strategic Choice: How Top Management Teams Disagree	141	(29)
Kathleen M. Eisenhardt
Jean L. Kahwajy
L. J. Bourgeois III
9. Confronting Senior Team Conflict: CEO Choices	170	(21)
Charles S. Raben
Janet L. Spencer
10. Teams at the Top: Managing the Madness	191	(12)
Deborah Ancona
[III] Boards of Directors	203	(88)
11. The Need to Improve the Board's Role in Corporate Governance	203	(7)
John L. Vogelstein
12. The Board As Agent of Change	210	(16)
Jay W. Lorsch
13. Control and Creativity in the Boardroom	226	(30)
Andrew Pettigrew
Terry McNulty
14. Toward a Behavioral Theory of the CEO-Board Relationship: How Research Can Enhance Our Understanding of Corporate Governance Practices	256	(22)
Edward J. Zajac
James D. Westphal
15. Corporate Boards in Times of Turbulent Change	278	(13)
Gerald F. Davis
[IV] Senior Leadership and Discontinuous Change	291	(78)
16. Leading Discontinuous Change: Ten Lessons from the Battlefront	291	(18)
David M. Lawrence
17. Five Requisites for Implementing Change	309	(9)
Robert P. Bauman
18. Levers for Organization Renewal: Innovation Streams, Ambidextrous Organizations, and Strategic Change	318	(29)
Michael L. Tushman
Philip Anderson
Charles O'Reilly
19. Senior Leadership and Discontinuous Change: Some Themes	347	(22)
Elise Walton
[V] Integration	369	(26)
20. How CEOs, Top Teams, and Boards Make Successful Transformations	369	(26)
E. Ralph Biggadike
Index	395	(12)
About the Contributors	407