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Title

Hope is not a method : what business leaders can learn from America's army / Gordon R. Sullivan, Michael V. Harper.

Author

Sullivan, Gordon R., 1937-

Publication

New York : Times Business, c1996.

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Additional Authors

Harper, Michael V.

Description

xxii, 294 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

• Businesspeople with the practical lessons of their experience.
• In a time when the world's great businesses - from IBM and General Motors to Wal-Mart and Microsoft - are struggling with the challenge of change, a surprising source of powerful leadership ideas has emerged: the new U.S. Army. A global powerhouse with nearly 1.5 million employees, an annual budget of $6.3 billion, and strategic alliances in every major nation, the Army is one of the world's vastest, most complex organizations. Remarkably, since the end of the Cold War,
• The Army has been transformed more thoroughly - and more successfully - than any business. It has retooled for the Information Age, tackled and mastered a bewildering array of new missions, and moved to shed decades-old bureaucratic methods - all while dramatically downsizing. In Hope Is Not a Method, General Gordon R. Sullivan, the Army Chief of Staff who led the transformation, and Colonel Michael V. Harper, one of his key strategic planners and thinkers, provide.

Alternative Title

What business leaders can learn from American's army

Subject

• Commerce
• Industrial management
• Industry
• Planning Techniques
• Strategic planning
• United States. Army

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-278) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ch. 1. Remaking America's Army -- Ch. 2. The Paradox of Action -- Ch. 3. Leadership for a Changing World -- Ch. 4. Values: The Leverage of Change -- Ch. 5. Seeing the Elephant -- Ch. 6. Creating a Strategic Architecture -- Ch. 7. Building a Team -- Ch. 8. Campaigning -- Ch. 9. Transforming the Organization -- Ch. 10. Overthrowing Success -- Ch. 11. Growing the Learning Organization -- Ch. 12. Investing in People: Leadership Training -- Ch. 13. Hope Is Not a Method -- Epilogue: The Army Today.

ISBN

0812927877 :

LCCN

^^^96217249^

OCLC

35747962

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library