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Corporate Failure by Design: Why Organizations Are Built to Fail [Hardcover]

Jonathan I. Klein (Author)
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A compelling chronicle and analysis about why industrial-era organizations are likely doomed to failure. -- J.D. Power III, Founder and Chairman, J.D. Power and Associates

A must read...among the best and brightest of business analysts and writers in the Twenty-first Century! -- Richard S. Hockett, Founder/President, Creative Business Solutions

An important book...Every manager and executive should read this book...Those who do not...do so at their peril. -- Ian I. Mitroff, Harold Quinton Distinguished Professor Of Business Policy, University of Southern California

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Based on data regarding corporate mortality, organizations are built to fail: a conclusion critical to managers, employees, stockholders, consultants, customers, vendors, competitors, and therefore all of us who transact with and depend on organizations. Yet, literature about organizational management tends to focus on education and inspiration, and to bristle with optimism about the potential success of applying its wares. Ignored, in virtually all of this literature is the reality that personnel may or may not be inherently self-interested, but certainly join business organizations in order to serve individual rather than organizational interests.

Individual self-interest is advanced through control of various processes in order to rationalize that self-interest as a productive, organizational purpose, which not simply suppresses opposition but also conceals or even demonizes that opposition. These processes include such familiar organizational functions as individual and organizational goal-setting, job and organizational design, leadership, hiring, performance appraisal, compensation, promotion, communication, corporate culture, and change.

At all levels, therefore, the organization's long-term interest is undermined by the goals of the very members of whom it is comprised--it is built to fail. And through control of its various internal processes and elimination of opposition, the organization pursues self-destructive goals without knowing it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Intellectual Thrill Ride, Dec 6 2001
This review is from: Corporate Failure by Design: Why Organizations Are Built to Fail (Hardcover)
Dr. Klein's book is nothing less than an intellectual thrill-ride through the dark and exciting mysteries of organizational life. I would give "Corporate Failure" the ultimate praise for such a scholarly and profound work: I couldn't put it down! A true masterpiece: a must-read!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Encyclopedia Corporate Failure, Dec 3 2001
This review is from: Corporate Failure by Design: Why Organizations Are Built to Fail (Hardcover)
Within a deceptively short amount of space, "Corporate Failure" delivers a massive amount of information and insights, serving as a veritable encyclopedia of reasons for corporate demise. Probably the most important book I've ever seen on the subject of organizations.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A MASTERPIECE!!!, Nov 29 2001
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I never knew that a book on organization and management could be so spine-tingling and intriguing. Corporate failure is staring all of us right in the face: this book dramatically tells us how, why, and what to do about it. A MASTERPIECE of a book!
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