Focusing on the complexities of modern business, this textbook prepares students for leadership roles by exploring the interplay of strategy, organizational design, and leadership. It emphasizes an integrated approach rather than a functional one, highlighting how decisions affect overall company performance. Authored by esteemed Harvard educators, the second edition includes updated digital resources to enhance learning and measure success, equipping students with skills for a dynamic and competitive job market.
In an era of raging commoditization and eroding profit margins, survival depends on staying one step ahead of your customers. Sure, most companies say they're "customer-focused," but they don't deliver solutions to customers' thorniest problems. Why? Because they're stymied by the rigid "silos" they're organized around. In Reorganize for Resilience, Ranjay Gulati reveals how resilient companies prosper both in good times and bad, driving growth and increasing profitability by immersing themselves in the lives of their customers. This book shows how resilient organizations cut through internal barriers that impede action, build bridges between warring divisions, and transform former competitors into collaborators.Based on more than a decade of research in a variety of industries, and filled with examples from companies including Cisco Systems, La Farge, Starbucks, Best Buy, and Jones Lang LaSalle, Gulati exploresthe five levers of · Connect, eradicate, or restructure silos to enable swift responses.· Foster a culture that aligns all employees around the shared goals of customer solutions.· Redistribute power to "bridge builders" and customer champions.· Develop employees' skills at tackling changing customer needs.· Blend partners' offerings with yours to provide unique customer solutions.
Many companies have used purpose as a corporate buzzword to appear virtuous internally, and look good to the outside world. But a poor understanding of the importance of real purpose can have detrimental consequences for the profitability and sustainability of a business. Deep purpose is the essential guide to putting purpose at the core of a company, and in doing so, understanding its very soul. Drawing together years of research, including analysis of multinational corporations from Danone and PepsiCo to Microsoft and Patagonia, Harvard professor Ranjay Gulati has identified eight conceptual barriers that are dooming leaders and their companies to a more superficial engagement with purpose. In this book, he shows you how to understand and overcome these obstacles, in order to find your company's deep purpose and supercharge its capacity to serve all stakeholders and shareholders. By fusing commercial and social logic, business leaders can enhance financial performance, boost employee morale and retention, and leave a positive mark on society. Deep purpose has the power to transform the business landscape and usher in a new era of ethical corporate leadership.
The book explores how alliances shape the behavior and performance of modern firms, focusing on the concept of 'network resources' that emerge from these relationships. Ranjay Gulati analyzes how successful companies effectively manage these resources and their impact on strategic decisions, resource access, and the overall legitimacy of the firm in the marketplace.
