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For the first time ever, Bruce A. Pasternack
and Albert J. Viscio, the founding partners of the Strategic
Leadership Practice at Booz.Allen & Hamilton, one of
the world's top management and technology consulting firms,
offer a comprehensive strategy for business survival and
success. At the heart of this landmark work is a new model
for the 21st-century corporation that will bring growth
and prosperity. The Centerless Corporation goes beyond
the lines and boxes of today's rigid organizations. It defines
new relationships which make traditional corporate center,
command-and-control models obsolete.
Pasternack and Viscio, two of the most respected
and gifted thinkers in today's business world, believe that
the principles and organizational models used in most companies,
which have evolved for well over one hundred years, are
now outmoded. In today's double-speed, highly complex world
the conventional model does not deliver. Technology is tying
the world more closely together, markets are becoming more
global, competition is based more and more on capabilities
and knowledge, and demographics are altering the composition
and preferences of the work force.
The upheaval in the corporate world is costly
in both human and financial terms as firms try to cope with
change. In response to greater complexity, many of the world's
most prominent companies, such as AT&T and Westinghouse,
have streamlined their portfolios, and most have undergone
significant downsizing and restructuring programs. Increasingly,
disappointing company performance results in a highly publicized
replacement of the CEO. The basic corporate model needs
an overhaul.
The Centerless Corporation is a compelling
model that presents practical solutions for how to build
a more effective global organization, develop capabilities
for growth, formulate a New People Partnership with employees,
implement a learning organization, and cultivate leaders
at every level in the organization. The foundation of many
of this book's concepts was developed by a Booz.Allen &
Hamilton task force charged with studying emerging trends
and alternatives for large corporations to cope with the
new business environment.
The authors convincingly demonstrate that
successful firms will build leadership models based on vision,
values, and identity. They will establish coherent business
processes within their organizations, leverage knowledge,
share best practices, and develop highly motivated work
forces. They will redefine their organizations, establishing
new roles for what the authors characterize as the Global
Core, a value-contributing, next-generation corporate center.
The Centerless Corporate was born
of upheaval. It is rooted in the authors' experiences working
with top executives in large corporations around the world
who are grappling with the turmoil in their business environments
and are anxiously searching for better ways to lead their
companies in turbulent times. It is a guide to transform
your organization into the model that Pasternack and Viscio
believe must be adopted for survival and growth in the coming
decade.
Bruce A. Pasternack and Albert J. Viscio
are the founding partners of Booz.Allen & Hamilton's
Strategic Leadership Practice, which focuses on serving
top management of the world's leading corporations in areas
of organization, leadership, transformation, and corporate
renewal. They have over thirty years of combined experience
with this prestigious global management and technology consulting
firm and have published extensively in the areas of growth,
globalization, people strategy, and leadership.
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