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"Insightful and thoroughly documented with corporate facts and anecdotes"
-Booklist
From Richard Tanner Pascale, coauthor of the bestselling The Art of Japanese Management and one of America's leading management consul- tants, comes this brilliant and startling revision of current management theory.
The key to effective management, according to Pascale, involves cultivating and harnessing tension. Executives and management theorists are uneasy with conflict, contention, and contradiction. They look for the middle ground, thinking that balance is the perfect and workable com- promise. The result, however, is the blahs: organizations without distinction or creative tension. Organizations with too little coherence, on the other hand, can fall prey to destructive conflict and a diffusion of focus. With Managing on the Edge, Richard Pascale has written the seminal management book for the 1990s.
ISBN:9780671732851
