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September 14, 2004
Adaptive Enterprises: Creating and Leading Sense-and-Respond Organizations
| Title | Adaptive Enterprises: Creating and Leading Sense-and-Respond Organizations | |
| Author | Stephan H. Haeckel | |
| Publisher | Harvard Business School Press, Boston MA | |
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| ISBN | 0 8777584 874 5 | |
| Reviewed by | Jane Szita | |
| The Information Age is characterised by sudden, unpredictable change that requires a fast, flexible response — fine if you are an entrepreneur or small business, not so easy if you are a large organisation. Enter Stephan H. Haeckel, with a handbook for leaders on how to manage an organisation as an adaptive system. He argues that corporate strategy must be based on sensing and reacting to current customer needs (not those projected in the future). A lucid, step-by-step account follows which will have managers of the most monolithic organisations embracing change like a Buddhist. | ||
Posted by Books Editor at September 14, 2004 09:33 PM