Barbarians to Bureaucrats: Corporate Life Cycle Strategies: Corporate Life Cycle Strategies Paperback - 1990
by Miller, Lawrence M. M
- Used
Using actual examples from history, this is a brilliant and irreverent piece of business writing. The strategies offered in this indispensable guide will help managers avoid the pitfalls of their predecessors, and help employees cope with all kinds of bosses.
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- Title Barbarians to Bureaucrats: Corporate Life Cycle Strategies: Corporate Life Cycle Strategies
- Author Miller, Lawrence M. M
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Ed., 6th Pr
- Condition UsedVeryGood The cover is clean but does show some wear.
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Fawcett Books, New York
- Date January 14, 1990
- Bookseller's Inventory # 49FUKR0015TR_ns
- ISBN 9780449905265 / 0449905268
- Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
- Dimensions 9.12 x 5.96 x 0.62 in (23.16 x 15.14 x 1.57 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 658.4
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From the jacket flap
Barbarians to Bureaucrats presents a brilliant new solution to a stubborn old business problem: how to halt a company's descent into wasteful, stifling bureaucracy. Lawrence M. Miller, a management consultant for such corporate giants as Xerox and 3M, argues that corporations, like civilizations, have a natural life cycle, and that by identifying the stage your company is in, and the leaders associated with it, you can avert decline and continue to thrive.
Every company begins with the compelling new vision of a Prophet and the aggressive leadership of an iron-willed Barbarian, who implements the Prophet's ideas. New techniques and expansions are pushed through by the Builder and the Explorer, but the growth spawned by these managers can easily stagnate when the Administrator sacrifices innovation to order, and the Bureaucrat imposes tight control. And just as in civilizations, the rule of the Aristocrat, out of touch with those who do the real work, invites rebellion -- from employees, customers, and stockholders. It will take the Synergist, a business leader who balances creativity with order, to restore vitality and insure future growth.
Executives from major corporations have already put the powerful insights of Barbarians to Bureaucrats into practice to regenerate their owncompanies. Now you can use this brilliant, lucid, and dazzlingly original book to put your company -- and your career -- back on track.
