- Paperback: 436 pages
- Publisher: Free Press; Reprint edition (Mar 15 1985)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0671528009
- ISBN-13: 978-0671528003
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 15.5 x 2.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 522 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #641,653 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Change Masters looks behind the scenes at some of the most important companies in America, including Hewlett-Packard, General Electric, Polaroid, General Motors, Wang Laboratories and Honeywell, to describe their organizational structures, their corporate cultures, and their specific strategies.
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IN MY TRAVELS around corporate America, in settings as distant geographically and culturally as a Los Angeles bank's high-rise headquarters, a snow-bordered Minneapolis electronics factory, a dingy Detroit engine plant, a Seattle instrumentation lab sitting among fishing boats, and a New York garment district sportswear showroom, I have been struck by an even-louder echo of the same question: how to stimulate more innovation, enterprise, and initiative from their people. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
IN MY TRAVELS around corporate America, in settings as distant geographically and culturally as a Los Angeles bank's high-rise headquarters, a snow-bordered Minneapolis electronics factory, a dingy Detroit engine plant, a Seattle instrumentation lab sitting among fishing boats, and a New York garment district sportswear showroom, I have been struck by an even-louder echo of the same question: how to stimulate more innovation, enterprise, and initiative from their people. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Roadblocks and Enablers of Organizational Change,
By frumiousb "frumiousb" (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Change Masters (Paperback)
_The Change Masters_ was written in 1983, and since that time organizations have become much more focused on issues of transformation, but I think employees of most companies will still recognize their organizations in these pages-- and not necessarily in the positive ways. This book was written in aid of waking the entrepreneurial spirit of the employees of large corporations and looks closely at the ways that this can be either stifled or made possible. Clearly written from a wealth of experience, Kanter draws on case studies of companies for whom she has worked. That experience is further supported by citations from academic research and a great deal of very strong analytical thought.
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Brings several important themes together,
By Robert D. Steele (Oakton, VA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Change Masters (Paperback)
This book was meaningful to me because it documents the relationship between an open organizational environment, individual employee productivity, and innovation.
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Review of organisational structure and innovation.,
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This review is from: Change Masters (Paperback)
If you've ever wondered what's wrong in the organisation you work for, why results are poor, why departments can't work together, why the best people keep leaving and why the rest feel helpless and miserable; this is the book for you. It's an academic text and the author draws strongly from her own research in several different organisations, some of whom she cannot name so gives them her own names - have fun guessing who they are. Of particular value is the section on roadblocks to managerial innovation, or how to prevent organisational success. A definite gift for your boss, but first erase all your comments like "that's us!" or "we do that!" because there will be plenty.
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