Beyond Control: Managing Strategic Alignment through Corporate Dialogue

Technology has made it possible to apply a new management philosophy. Leaders can let go and still be in control. They can involve key people without losing momentum. Companies can consistently measure organizational capability over time, and accurately benchmark 'soft' management areas, and a virtual CEO office really does work. Founded on three key insights (the operating arena; managing by pull and push; and the web-based dialogue centre), Beyond Control offers a revolutionary model for shifting the management focus from structured control to guided interaction. Using this approach companies can build a participative operating system that creates space for managers to excel, and avoids the unpleasant surprises that can lead to corporate scandals.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

FRED LACHOTZKI (RIGHT) has thirty years of experience as manager, president and nonexecutive director in E e, the USA and the Far East. As a Professor of business policy at Nyenrode University, he has been teaching strategy formulation and execution for many years. He has served or is serving on a number of boards in an executive as well as a non-executive capacity, both nationally and internationally.

ROBERT NOTEBOOM is an independent strategy consultant, prior to which he was Associate Director Customer Value Management at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is also lecturer for e-Business Strategy at Nyenrode University, the Netherlands.

Both authors have been involved in initiatives to help global companies focus their alignment via 'digital dialogue'. Since its founding in 1998, MeyerMonitor, a management consulting company dedicated to improving organizational effectiveness, has applied the models and methodol gies on which this book is based in various projects, serving many large multinational companies and generating a wealth of positive research data.