The Living Company: Growth, Learning and Longevity in BusinessExplores the theme of organizational learning. Provides an investigation of the consequences of building a sustainable work community for human resource management, strategic planning and organisational structure. A case is made for a public debate on corporate governance and the reallocation of power in a company. |
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The Living Company: Growth, Learning and Longevity in Business Arie de Geus No preview available - 2011 |
The Living Company: Growth, Learning and Longevity in Business Arie de Geus No preview available - 1999 |
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activity Arie de Geus Art Kleiner assets become behaviour blue tits Brazil capability capital cent cohesion company’s continuity corporate create crisis decisionmaking process decisions develop economic company effect employees entity environment evolution evolved example exist experience finance flocking forces future goals growth happens harmony homo economicus human ideas immune system individual innovation internal introception investment Jean Piaget knowledge learning company living company longevity longlived companies longterm look machine marketing means merger Mitsui move oil companies operating organization organization’s organizational parasites persona Peter Schwartz Petrobras Pierre Wack planners play potatoes potential prediction production profits question reality recruitment relationship risk Royal Dutch/Shell scenario scenario planning senior managers Seymour Papert shareholders Shell Brazil Shell Group Shell study shift species success suppliers survival tolerance trade understanding value system William Stern