The Ever-Evolving Enterprise - Guidelines for Creating Your Company's Future (Hardcover)

This insightful guide showcases a new psychological framework through which business leaders can transform themselves and their organizations. "Most managers," author Stephen C. Harper writes, "do not understand what is involved in transforming organizations." His book, The Ever-Evolving Enterprise: Guidelines for Creating Your Company's Future, is intended to remedy that, focusing on ten areas proactive business leaders must address as they guide their companies through everyday activities and into the future. The book stresses the need for firms to evolve to remain in sync with an ever-changing marketplace. It explores the multifaceted nature of transformational leadership and offers specific guidelines, ideas, and techniques leaders can institute to seize new opportunities and develop innovative products and services that offer sustainable competitive advantages. But it also invites executives to take a closer look at how they lead their firms, promoting a fresh psychological framework that will keep business leaders-and their companies-anticipatory, perceptive, agile, innovative, results-oriented, and able to execute so that their visions become realities. Hundreds of cautions, insights, tips, and techniques Candid "reality checks" throughout Chapter-ending quizzes that profile the extent to which a firm is demonstrating the qualities of Ever-Evolving Enterprises Numerous figures that profile the multidimensional nature of organizational transformation Sources and notes at the end of each chapter