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    The Centerless Corporation: Transforming Your Organization for Growth and Prosperity
    The Centerless Corporation: Transforming Your Organization for Growth and Prosperity
    The Centerless Corporation: Transforming Your Organization for Growth and Prosperity
    Audiobook (abridged)2 hours

    The Centerless Corporation: Transforming Your Organization for Growth and Prosperity

    Written by Bruce A. Pasternack

    Narrated by Scott Byce

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    About this audiobook

    In today's fast-paced global business environment, the conventional model of the corporation and its management principles no longer deliver results. Economic upheaval, changing demographics, and technological revolution have forever altered the requirements for running a business today. Now, in response, The Centerless Corporation presents a radical new corporate model -- designed for your organization's survival, growth, and prosperity.

    Drawing on groundbreaking research they conducted at Booz • Allen & Hamilton, Bruce A. Pasternack and Albert J. Viscio offer a comprehensive strategy for managing in turbulent times. To deal with increasing complexity, they contend, leaders must abandon their command-and-control mentality and establish a model in which responsibility and accountability are distributed throughout the organization, employees are regarded as valued resources, and knowledge flows freely. Illustrating their ideas with invaluable real-life examples, Pasternack and Viscio explain how to attract and develop leaders, build coherence to unite all parts of an organization, and restructure business units and corporate roles to add value rather than overhead.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateFeb 1, 1998
    ISBN9780743542579
    The Centerless Corporation: Transforming Your Organization for Growth and Prosperity

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      Business has driven little change from the traditional hierarchical model or organization. Modern times necessitate this change in order to achieve speed, focus and competitiveness. The Centerless coporation replaces the bloated, inefficient headquarters with a minimal core of senior management and support staff. All other functions are done by the business units. Staff functions are done by a shared services unit or outsourced (or not done at all). The board of directors becomes more responsive and involved. The core focuses entirely on corporate values and image, strategic direction, and communication. Examples that at least approach this ideal GloCorp are GE and HP. In theory, it seems like a great concept and a compilation of the best things the best companies are doing. And it seems unlikely to happen anytime soon.