When giants learn to dance : mastering the challenges of strategy, management, and careers in the 1990s

Abstract

Part 1 Competing in the corporate Olympics: small world, big horizons - the challenge getting in shape for the contest - the reponse. Part 2 Doing more with less - strategies for post-entrepreneurial management: desperately seeking synergies - the promise and the perils of restructuring achieving synergies - value added, value multiplied becoming PALS - pooling, allying, and linking across companies putting powerinto partnerships cutting channels - the push for new business streams swimming in newstreams - mastering innovation dilemmas. Part 3 Jobs, money, people - consequences of the post-entrepreneurial revolution: from status to contribution - the changing basis for pay the new workforce meets the changing workplace - opportunity and overload from climbing to hopping - the contingent job and the post-entrepreneurial career the pursuit of skill and reputation - security and loyalty in a post-entrepreneurial world. Part 4 Beyond the cowboy and the corpocrat - a call to action.