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Taking Charge and Letting Go: A Breakthrough Strategy for Creating and Managing the Horizontal Company - Hardcover
Synopsis
To flatten their vertical hierarchies, thousands of corporations have embarked on disastrous downsizing campaigns. Spector offers a better way for companies to carry out radical change systematically & effectively. This book charts the successes & failures of key managers & their strategies as they sought to transform their firms into world-class "horizontal" competitors. Spector uses a 6-step model to demonstrate a new approach to leadership that avoids the pitfalls encountered by both autocratic & permissive leaders & balances the need to control an organization with the need to devolve power & control. Illustrations.
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About the Author
Bert A. Spector is associate professor of human resource management at Northeastern University and an associate of the Harvard Law School Program on Negotiations.
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