When Giants Learn to Dance

When Giants Learn to Dance is Rosabeth Moss Kanter's blueprint for business strategy in the next decade. She examines with inspiring clarity the dilemma facing many corporations today:

• How to invest in the future and at the same time meet short-term goals;
• How to support entrepreneurial risk-taking and yet stay profitably;
• How to streamline your operation and still make it a great place to work.

Business today has become a global corporate Olympics. The impact of change on management and on individual careers can be dramatic. The new model organisation Rosabeth Moss Kanter sees emerging is lean and athletic, with fewer management levels, greater responsiveness to change and an openness to strategic alliances with other companies.

Authorative, comprehensive and challenging, When Giants Learn to Dance is a landmark work and essential reading for anyone in business who wants to stay competitive in the coming decade.

• Part One: Competing in the Corporate Olympics
1. Small World, Big Horizons: The Challenge
2. Getting in Shape for the Contest: The Response
• Part Two: Doing More with Less: Strategies for Post-Entrepreneurial Management
3. Desperately Seeking Synergies: The Promise and Perils of Restructuring
4. Achieving Synergies: Value Added, Value Multiplied
5. Becoming PALs: Pooling, Allying, and Linking Across Companies
6. Putting Power into Partnerships
7. Cutting Channels: The Push for New Business Streams
8. Swimming in Newstreams: Mastering Innovation Dilemmas
• Part Three: Jobs, Money, People: Consequences of the Post-Entrepreneurial Revolution
9. From Status to Contribution: The Changing Basis for Pay
10. The New Workforce Meets the Changing Workplace: Opportunity and Overload
11. From Climbing to Hopping: The Contingent Job and the Post-Entrepreneurial Career
12. The Pursuit of Skill and Reputation: Security and Loyalty in a Post-Entrepreneurial World
• Conclusion: Beyond the Cowboy and the Corpocrat: A Call to Action

Still a good book.