Management by Missions : Connecting People to Strategy Through Purpose.
- 2nd ed.
- 1 online resource (170 pages)
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Updated and Expanded Edition -- Terminology Review -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I: Myths and Realities of Business Administration -- 1: Is There a Link Between Corporate Purpose and Performance? -- Unity: The Bottom Line of Corporate Culture -- Unity and Survival -- Unity and Profit -- Verification of the Model -- Corporate Culture -- Dynamics of Cultural Development -- Shared Priorities -- 2: Different Ways of Viewing an Organization -- Mechanical Perspective -- Organic Perspective -- Cultural Perspective -- The Integrated Organizational Model -- 3: The Limits of Management by Objectives -- The Problems with Management by Objectives -- Low-Octane Cultures -- Beyond Management by Objectives -- Part II: In Search of Corporate Culture -- 4: What Are Companies For? -- Profit: Means or End? -- The Danger of Simplification -- Balance and Complementarity -- Organizational Purpose -- Purpose and Sense of Purpose -- Coherence -- Authenticity -- Integrity -- Personal Purpose -- 5: Missions: For Whom Does the Company Exist? -- Purpose and Missions -- Characteristics of Missions: Content, Credibility and Urgency -- Content -- Credibility -- Urgency -- The Stakeholder Model -- Customers -- Shareholders -- Employees -- 6: The Values of a Balanced Culture -- The Origin of Values -- Corporate Values and Real Values of an Organization -- Characteristics of Corporate Values -- Values and Motivation -- Balanced Values -- Evolution and Change in Values -- Part III: Toward a New Management Method -- 7: Deploying Purpose -- Shared Missions -- Criteria for Defining Shared Missions -- Shared Missions in the Organization -- Shared Missions in a Corporate Group -- The Interdependency Matrix -- 8: Tools for Managing Purpose -- New Management Practices?. Strategic Planning: A Question of Congruence -- Deployment of Objectives -- Missions Scorecard -- Competency Development -- Performance Appraisal -- Management Systems and Leadership -- 9: Missions-Driven Leadership -- Types of Leadership -- Transactional Leadership -- Transformative Leadership -- Transcendental Leadership -- Purpose and Leadership -- Dimensions of Missions-Driven Leadership -- Commitment -- Cooperation -- Change -- Battling the Ego -- Afterword -- Index.