- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Basic Books; Revised edition edition (April 28 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0738203300
- ISBN-13: 978-0738203300
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.5 x 1.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 381 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #732,799 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Business experts everywhere have been finding that corporations run not only on numbers, but on culture. In this revised and updated 2000 edition of Corporate Cultures, organization consultants Terrence Deal and Allan Kennedy probe the conference rooms and corridors of corporate America to discover the key to business excellence. They find that the health of the bottom line is not ultimately guaranteed by attention to the rational aspects of managing-financial planning, personnel policies, cost controls, and the like. What's more important to long-term prosperity is the company's culture-the inner values, rites, rituals, and heroes-that strongly influence its success, from top management to the secretarial pool.For junior and senior managers alike, Deal and Kennedy offer explicit guidelines for diagnosing the state of one's own corporate culture and for using the power of culture to wield significant influence on how business gets done.
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Argues that organizations, by their very nature, are social enterprises, with tribal habits, well-defined cultural roles for individuals, and various strategies for determining inclusion, reinforcing identity, and adapting to change. Softcover.
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Useful advice for any business leader., Aug 14 1998
By tom@ims1.com - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Corporate Cultures: The Rites And Rituals Of Corporate Life (Paperback)
This should be considered a classic in business literature. I found it very useful designing workshops to help corporate leaders breathe life into stodgy mission statements. The use of mission to motivate employees is rarely achieved, and this book helps you understand why.
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For The Corporate World, Mar 9 2011
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This is the third book that I purchased on the subject of Corporate Cultures; with the same authors. Their first publication of The New Corpotate Culture Rites and Rituals was excellent! The editional publications of the authors including the revision of Corporate Cultures Rites and Rituals is on management, it has very good references of the large top 500 companies. this too is good reading.Marlece White
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Read this, and drag your company into the new millennium, Jun 18 1999
By C. Anderson "Vintage Brands" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Corporate Cultures: The Rites And Rituals Of Corporate Life (Paperback)
Provides the forward-thinking employee with ammunition on why a positive, nurturing culture is critical to a company's success. There's more to being successful in business that simply creating/selling the best product. More companies should wake up and move into the 1990's (before they're over)...
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