Creating advantages
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Criticizes the concept of `synergy' in industrial management. Use of the concept to describe the future of a corporate merger and a corporate strategy; Myths associated with the concept.
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Discusses the concept of an amoeba organization. Changes in organizational structure; Comparison of the `amoeba form' to the cytoplasm amoeba; Effect on one-on-one client interaction; Identification of the organization's core competency; Changes that will occur in the movement toward a...
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- From independence to interdependence. Covey, Stephen R. // Executive Excellence;Mar1998, Vol. 15 Issue 3, p5
Focuses on the need for an organization to have a supportive environment that features internal cooperation and external competition. Interdependent nature of business; Importance of partnering, collaborating and cooperating with all stakeholders; Resistance to value-added teamwork and...
