The corporation was a timely emergent phenomenon of the capitalist system. However, with various transitions, capitalism's reputation has become tarnished and its purpose distorted. This Element ends with the promise of another emergent era, via the corporations of the digital age.
This Element examines the current crisis of capitalism's legitimacy and concludes that it derives principally from business pursuing an aberration of capitalism known as shareholder capitalism, in which firms sought to maximize shareholder value as reflected in the current share price, at the expense of all other stakeholders and society.
Technology and customer needs are changing rapidly in today's business world. Is your company adapting? Is it succeeding? Is it . . . Agile?
Filled with examples from every business sector, The Age of Agile helps leaders of businesses both large and small learn to act entrepreneurially. It enables an enterprise to nimbly adapt and upgrade products and services to meet rapidly changing technology and customer needs.
Focusing on storytelling as a formal discipline, this book reveals how "springboard" stories can drive organizational change and enhance knowledge management. It provides insights into using narrative techniques to effectively communicate new strategies, structures, identities, goals, and values to employees, partners, and customers, fostering engagement and alignment within knowledge-era organizations.
How leaders can use the right story at the right time to inspire change and action This revised and updated edition of the best-selling book A Leader's Guide to Storytelling shows how storytelling is one of the few ways to handle the most important and difficult challenges of leadership: sparking action, getting people to work together, and leading people into the future. Using myriad illustrative examples and filled with how-to techniques, this book clearly explains how you can learn to tell the right story at the right time. Stephen Denning has won awards from Financial Times, The Innovation Book Club, and 800-CEO-READ The book on leadership storytelling shows how successful leaders use stories to get their ideas across and spark enduring enthusiasm for change Stephen Denning offers a hands-on guide to unleash the power of the business narrative.
A radical new management model for twenty-first century leaders Organizations today face a crisis. The crisis is of long standing and its signs are widespread. Most proposals for improving management address one element of the crisis at the expense of the others. The principles described by award-winning author Stephen Denning simultaneously inspire high productivity, continuous innovation, deep job satisfaction and client delight. Denning puts forward a fundamentally different approach to management, with seven inter-locking principles of continuous innovation: focusing the entire organization on delighting clients; working in self-organizing teams; operating in client-driven iterations; delivering value to clients with each iteration; fostering radical transparency; nurturing continuous self-improvement and communicating interactively. In sum, the principles comprise a new mental model of management. This book is written by the author of The Secret Language of Leadership― a Financial Times Selection in Best Books of 2007.
The book introduces the concept of narrative intelligence― an ability to understand and act and react agilely in the quicksilver world of interacting narratives. It shows why this is key to the central task of leadership, what its dimensions are, and how you can measure it. The book’s lucid explanations, vivid examples and practical tips are essential reading for CEOs, managers, change agents, marketers, salespersons, brand managers, politicians, teachers, parents―anyone who is setting out to the change the world.
The How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-Era Organizations is the first book to teach storytelling as a powerful and formal discipline for organizational change and knowledge management. The book explains how organizations can use certain types of stories ("springboard" stories) to communicate new or envisioned strategies, structures, identities, goals, and values to employees, partners and even customers.Readers will learn techniques by which they can help their organizations become more unified, responsive, and intelligent. Storytelling is a management technique championed by gurus including Peter Senge, Tom Peters and Larry Prusak. Now Stephen Denning, an innovator in the new discipline of organizational storytelling, teaches how to use stories to address challenges fundamental to success in today's information economy.
Book A Novel of Pursuit, is a tongue-in-cheek love story, and comprises a first-person account of a young painters stay on the banks of the Potomac River, in the company of a sensuous young beauty. It tells of the young artists struggles to keep his mind sharply focused on his quest for artistic expression, while his attractive companion pursues him. The book offers an elegant and witty account of the larky situations that ensue. The book not only entertains. Its target is the heart. The artists companion is not satisfied with being desired by her hard-to-please artist. She wants to be desired irresistibly, and no Ottoman odalisque ever worked harder at the task.