Crisis & renewal : meeting the challenge of organizational change /

Crisis & renewal : meeting the challenge of organizational change /

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Author / Creator:	Hurst, David K.
Imprint:	Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, c2002.
Description:	xiii, 229 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	The management of innovation and change series
Subject:	Organizational change -- Management. Corporate reorganizations. Crisis management. Corporate reorganizations. Crisis management. Organizational change -- Management.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4714130

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Varying Form of Title:	Crisis and renewal
Other title:	Crisis and renewal.
ISBN:	0875845827 (acid-free paper) 1578518709
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-213) and indexes.
Summary:	Crisis & Renewal presents a radical view of how successful organizations evolve and renew themselves and what managers must do to lead the revival. Contrary to traditional organizational theory, which emphasizes rationality and control in the management of change, this book argues that there are times when managers must deliberately create crises by committing acts of "ethical anarchy" in order to break the constraints of success and renew their organizations. Hurst develops a model of change - the organizational ecocycle - to explain how even successful organizations become systematically vulnerable to catastrophe. He brings the model to life with stories of crisis and renewal from both his own management and consulting experiences and a cross-section of enterprises - from the hunter-gatherers of the Kalahari and the Quakers of the Industrial Revolution to contemporary organizations such as 3M and Nike.

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Summary:	Crisis & Renewal presents a radically different view of how organizations evolve & renew themselves. The author tracks a cross-section of enterprises from their creative beginnings through the institutionalization of their success. Using a model of organizational ecocycles, he argues that managers need to create deliberate crises to preserve their organizations from destruction & to renew them with creativity & meaning. The Management of Innovation & Change Series. "Crisis & Renewal is designed to be a revelation, not a textbook. I recommend you revel in it as soon as you can.".
Physical Description:	xiii, 229 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-213) and indexes.
ISBN:	0875845827 1578518709