Growing Pains : Building Sustainably Successful Organizations.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1 A Framework for Developing Successful Organizations -- Chapter 1 Transitions Required to Build Sustainably Successful Organizations® -- Organizational Success, Decline, and Failure -- Building Sustainably Successful Organizations® -- The Personal Transitions Facing Founders and CEOs -- The Need for Organizational Transition -- Transitions Required for Continuing Success: An Overview Case Example -- Summary -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Building Sustainably Successful Organizations®: The Pyramid of Organizational Development -- The Nature of Organizational Development -- The Pyramid of Organizational Development -- The Pyramid and Financial Performance -- Improving Strategic Organizational Development at Guangzhou Construction, China -- Successfully Building the Pyramid: The Example of Starbucks -- Summary -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Identifying and Surviving the First Four Stages of Organizational Growth -- Stages of Organizational Growth -- Differences between Entrepreneurial and Professional Management -- Discrepancies between Growth and Organizational Development -- Managing the Transition between Growth Stages -- Case Example of Growth from Stages I to IV: 99 Cents Only Stores -- Summary -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Managing the Advanced Stages of Growth -- Nature of Problems beyond Stage IV -- Growth beyond Stage IV -- The Challenge of Revitalization -- Summary -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Recognizing Growing Pains and Assessing the Need for Change -- The Nature of Growing Pains -- The Ten Most Common Organizational Growing Pains -- Measuring Organizational Growing Pains -- Organizational Growing Pains, Growth Rates, and Infrastructure -- Growing Pains and Financial Performance -- Minimizing Organizational Growing Pains -- Growing Pains at Guanzhou Construction -- Summary -- Notes.

Part 2 Mastering the Tools for Building Sustainably Successful Organizations® -- Chapter 6 Strategic Planning -- Strategy Defined -- The Nature of Strategic Planning and "Strategic Organizational Development Planning" -- Strategic Issues -- Management Systems' Strategic Planning Method -- International Truck Dealerships: Development and Implementation of Strategic Organizational Development Plans -- Ongoing Functions of Strategic Planning -- Strategic Planning at Different Stages of Growth -- Consultants and Strategic Planning Departments -- The Value of Strategic Planning -- Summary -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Organizational Structure -- Nature of Organizational Structure -- Three Related Dimensions of Organizational Structure -- Alternative Forms of Macro Organizational Structure -- Different Philosophies of Organizational Structure Design -- Criteria for Evaluation and Design of Organizational Structure -- Case Studies of Organizational Structure -- Organizational Structure at Different Stages of Growth -- Summary -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Organizational Control and Performance Management Systems -- The Nature and Purpose of Organizational Control and Performance Management Systems -- Performance Management Systems and Other Forms of Organizational Control -- The Performance Management Scoreboard -- Evaluation of Performance Management Systems' Effectiveness -- Performance Management Systems in Action: Superior Security Systems Case Study -- Use of Performance Management Systems at an Individual Level: The Performance Appraisal Process at Southern California Presbyterian Homes -- Control and Performance Management Systems at Different Stages of Organizational Growth -- Summary -- Notes -- Chapter 9 Management and Leadership Development -- The Management and Leadership Role.

A Three-Dimensional Framework for Understanding Management and Leadership Effectiveness -- The Nature of Management and Leadership Development -- Functions of Management and Leadership Development -- Management and Leadership Development at Different Organizational Levels -- Case Studies of Management and Leadership Development -- Management and Leadership Development at Different Stages of Growth -- Investment in Leadership Development -- Summary -- Notes -- Chapter 10 Corporate Culture Management -- The Nature of Corporate Culture -- Key Dimensions of Corporate Culture -- The Impact of Corporate Culture on Organizational Success and Financial Performance -- Strong and Weak Cultures -- Functional and Dysfunctional Cultures -- Real versus Nominal Corporate Culture -- Manifestations of Corporate Culture -- How Corporate Culture Changes -- How to Manage Corporate Culture -- The Importance of Cultural Norms -- Corporate Culture at Different Stages of Organizational Development -- Summary -- Notes -- Part 3 Special Aspects of Organizational Transitions in Growing and Changing Enterprises -- Chapter 11 Building Sustainably Successful Nonprofits -- Applying the Pyramid of Organizational Development to Nonprofits -- Applying the Stages of Organizational Growth and Growing Pains to Nonprofits -- Strategic Planning in Nonprofits -- Organizational Structure and Structure Management in Nonprofits -- Management and Leadership Development in Nonprofits -- Performance Management in Nonprofits -- Culture Management in Nonprofits -- Summary -- Notes -- Chapter 12 The Challenge of Leadership Throughout the Organizational Life Cycle -- The Nature of Leadership -- Styles of Leadership -- Factors Influencing the Choice of Leadership Style -- Two Sets of Leadership Tasks -- The Leadership Molecule -- Emergence and Development of a Leadership Molecule in Organizations.

Design of a Leadership Molecule -- Empirical Support for the Leadership Molecule Model -- The Leadership Molecule at Different Stages of Growth -- Implications of the Leadership Molecule for Building Successful Organizations -- Summary -- Notes -- Chapter 13 Building Sustainably Successful Organizations® The Frameworks, Tools, and Methods in Action -- Organizational Development at American Century Investments -- Organizational Development at Infogix -- Organizational Development at Bell-Carter Foods -- SmileSaver -- Organizational Development at Ballistic Cell -- Organizational Development at GroundSwell -- Conclusion -- Notes -- About the Authors -- Index -- EULA.

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