Changing the Game: Organizational Transformations of the First, Second, and Third Kinds

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How do companies like Microsoft and Wal-Mart rise to the top of their industries and dominate year after year, while others like People Express and LA Gear burn out after promising starts? In Changing the Game, Eric Flamholtz and Yvonne Randle, two leading management consultants, reveal that the key to success lies in how you transform your organization. Virtually all organizations face critical transition points in their life cycle, when they must change how they play the game, or perish. Flamholtz and Randle focus here on three critical moments: the move from entrepreneurial to professional management, when a firm reaches a stage of growth where it can no longer operate in an informal, unstructured way; the revitalization of an established business that is losing ground to competitors; and a radical change in a business vision. The authors show, for instance, how American Century Investors made the transformation from a $50 million entrepreneurship to a professionally managed company with a market value of $2 billion; how IBM, one of the great American corporations, was forced by the proliferation of PCs in the 1980s to overhaul its business to survive; and how Starbucks Coffee, originally a Seattle coffee-bean store, was inspired by Milans romantic coffee bars to recreate itself and transformed an entire industry. The book concludes with a look at how one company--Bell Carter Olive Company--pulled together all the concepts and tools presented in the book and successfully changed the game. Changing the Game provides a comprehensive framework and a set of tools for the strategic management of organizational transformation. It will help managers meet the challenges of an increasingly competitive business environment.

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  Changing the Game: Title IX, Gender, and College Athletics

  • 2022-07-01
  • 343 pages
  • Ebook
  • UNC Press Books
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  Changing the Game: Asian Pacific American Female Athletes

  • 2021-07-08
  • 32 pages
  • Ebook
  • Mia Wenjen
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  Changing the Game: The Playbook for Leading Business Transformation

  • 2021-07-06
  • 219 pages
  • Paperback
  • John Wiley & Sons
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  Changing the Game: The Playbook for Leading Business Transformation

  • 2021-06-25
  • 216 pages
  • Ebook
  • John Wiley & Sons

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