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Developing your corporate culture is now a crucial leadership skill. Correctly managed, a culture is a source of organizational strength and enduring commercial advantage. Too often, however, it is the origin of intractable attitudes and irrational actions, and even the reason for failure..In Corporate Culture, Charles Hampden-Turner identifies the dilemmas corporate culture can create and shows how to resolve them: how to create virtuous rather than vicious circles. Penetrating case studies drawn from an international portfolio of companies illustrate the lessons to be learned in developing and managing your corporate culture effectively, and a resource index describes the work of leading culture change specialists.A company's culture is its most unique asset. Corporate Culture provides the latest and most original thinking on how to use it to maximum advantage."At last! Someone has taken the elusive concept of corporate culture and given it precision, turning it into dilemmas that can be managed. To do so and makeit an enjoyable read is Charles Hampden-Turner's special skill." Charles Handy "Hampden-Turner's use of dilemmas provides a powerful way of exploringcorporate culture and will provide insights for any corporation. Prof Gareth Morgan, York University, Canada"Charles Hampden-Turner has generated a body of learning in the field of dilemma resolution that is highly effective in guiding leaders and their organizations through the mindfields we must navigate in the nineties."William O'BrienPresident, Hanover Insurance Co., Worcester, MassISBN:9780091746650
