Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

In Adhocracy , Robert Waterman notes that “Bureaucracy gets us through the day; it deals efficiently with everyday problems. Waterman explains: Stud poker is a good metaphor for this process. Managers often don’t—for several reasons: First, they don’t bother to break big projects up into bite-sized chunks.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Is Your Career A Rollercoaster Or Are You Driving It? Are you driving your career? What’s Killing Your Career? Can Change Your Career. Peters and Waterman — “In Search of Excellence”. This week was chock full of incredible conversations with clients, colleagues, partners and prospects! The Laws of Nature.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

APRIL 23, 2019

There were no lists of training professionals you could purchase with up-to-date contact information for the person making leadership and management training decisions. That course became a best-selling text book (“Management of Organizational Behavior”). What impact has it had on your life/career? There was no internet.

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Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Bob Waterman has written a penetrating little book, Adhocracy: The Power to Change. The people in the Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, AES plant learned what many workers and managers know across the country: They learned who is responsible for the way things run. Business Month named MCI one of the five best-managed companies in 1990.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Bob Waterman has written a penetrating little book, Adhocracy: The Power to Change. The people in the Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, AES plant learned what many workers and managers know across the country: They learned who is responsible for the way things run. Business Month named MCI one of the five best-managed companies in 1990.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

What makes the matter fascinating to industry watchers, approximately their equivalent of the Charlie Sheen supernova, is that Gupta served three terms as managing director of McKinsey & Co., In his tenure as McKinsey's worldwide managing director, Gupta displayed macher-like ambition not just for himself but even more so for his firm.

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