Description
There's a new breed of dynamic managers at work-practising a new kind of dynamic management. The Superchiefs is the first analysis of what they do, how they do it, and why. Against a background of fast and furious competition the old ways of top-down hierarchal management don't work any more. Chief executives have to change their styles, methods and roles-to become less 'chief, less 'executive, far more effective. They can no longer run their companies as dominant power-houses of decision. Now their role is to unlock the power that exists lower down the corporation - all the way down.
The Superchiefs describes the key, practical management approaches that are remoulding whole organisations by increasing their productivity, slashing their costs, dramatically improving their quality. All these vital initiatives have to be led from the top-but in doing so they change life at the top. They don't make that life any easier. For today's Superchiefs have no guarantee of either success or permanence. One false step, and even a superbly managed growth star can stumble into loss, or worse: The Superchiefs studies the cautionary tales of failure as well as the inspiring stories of success.
Success will continue to be hard-won in the West, in part because of unremitting pressure from the East. The world's fastest-growing. most thrusting and competitive economy is the Japanese economy outside Japan. Western companies can no longer argue that Japanese success reflects cultural and economic conditions that can't be reproduced elsewhere. The methods, motivation and machines are working -usually brilliantly-in our backyards. 'If you can't beat 'em, join 'em' isn't a good enough answer today. Superchiefs have to out-Japan Japan, because their best Western competitor is increasingly liable to be Eastern owned.
ISBN:9781852511463
