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    Control in an Age of Empowerment
    Control in an Age of Empowerment
    Control in an Age of Empowerment
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    Control in an Age of Empowerment

    By Robert Simons

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    In Control in an Age of Empowerment, Robert Simons explains how to give employees the freedom to innovate while protecting your firm from loose cannons. Using powerful examples, Simons shows how to apply four powerful management "levers" to balance autonomy with control: Traditional diagnostic control systems, Belief systems, Boundary systems, and Interactive control systems. Used in concert, these four levers give you the control you need--without sacrificing the creative thinking your company can't do without. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarvard Business Review Press
    Release dateOct 1, 2008
    ISBN9781633691551
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      Control in an Age of Empowerment - Robert Simons

      CONTROL IN AN AGE

      OF EMPOWERMENT

      Harvard Business Review

      CLASSICS

      CONTROL IN AN AGE

      OF EMPOWERMENT

      Robert Simons

      Harvard Business Press

      Boston, Massachusetts

      Copyright 2008 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation

      Originally published in Harvard Business Review in March 1995 and April 2000.

      Reprint #95211

      All rights reserved

      Printed in the United States of America

      12 11 10 09 08       5 4 3 2 1

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior permission of the publisher. Requests for permission should be directed to permissions@hbsp.harvard.edu, or mailed to Permissions, Harvard Business School Publishing, 60 Harvard Way, Boston, Massachusetts 02163.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Simons, Robert.

      Control in an age of empowerment / Robert Simons.

      p. cm. – (Harvard business review classics)

      ISBN 978-1-4221-2672-1

      1. Span of control. 2. Management. I. Title.

      HD50.S56 2008

      658.4–dc22

      2008017538

      The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Publications and Documents in Libraries and Archives Z39.48-1992.

      THE

      HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW

      CLASSICS SERIES

      Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice–many of which still speak to and influence us today. The HBR Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each volume contains a groundbreaking idea that has shaped best practices and inspired countless managers around the world–and will change

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