Future Perfect by Stan Davis
}When Tom Peters called Future Perfect the book of the decade ten years ago it wasnt hyperbole, it was understatement. This tenth anniversary edition of Future Perfect , with a new introduction and updated notes by the author, is even more relevant than it was when the book was first published. Its as if weve had to move further into the world Davis describes to fully grasp the degree of his prescience, and the wisdom of his analysis. Future Perfect is the book for business readers who are tired of learning the latest buzzword only to find that its been supplanted by another. The words Davis asks us to consider are time, space, and mass. When you begin to think of these basic dimensions of the physical universe as the fundamental resources of our economy, the possibilities for creative thinking become infinite. And you find a lasting way of understanding business challenges.Many of Daviss concepts that seemed way out ten years ago have become part of our standard way of thinking about business. Everyone talks about operating any time, any place and mass customization, phrases Davis coined for use in business. Yet, as he points out in his new introduction, while business may be able to scurry to keep up with changes in technology, the economy, and society, organizations cant change as fast as the businesses they are managing. It may take two years to implement an organizational change that supports your any time business. Then you have an organization perfectly appropriate for 1996, but you have a 1998 business to run. We would be much better off, he says, using models that never fall behind in the first place.How do we do that? By confronting the fact that business operates by the economic rules of the marketplace, whereas organizations operate by the social, psychological, and political rules of the workplace. If we want businesses and their organizations to work together in lock-step, rather than in lag-step, then they must operate by the same rules. This new edition of Future Perfect gives us strategies and models for the next ten years and beyond. }
Davis, Stan: - Stan Davis is a distinguished public speaker, author, and business adviser, most known for his creative thinking and mind-stretching perspectives. His 2020 Vision was named Fortune magazine's Best Management Book of 1991 (the most mind-bending of the bunch) and his influential work Future Perfect received Tom Peters' Book of the Decade Award in 1989. This is what led Federal Express, in 1993, to grant him their first Visionary of the Year Award. His eight books appear in fifteen languages and he addresses audiences throughout the world. Dr. Davis consults about the strategy, technology, management, and organization of both major corporations and fast-growing enterprises. He taught for two decades at the Harvard Business School, and Columbia and Boston universities. He lives and works in Chestnut Hill, Boston, Massachusetts.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780201590456 |
| ISBN 10 | 020159045X |
| Titel | Future Perfect |
| Autor | Stan Davis |
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| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 1996-09-08 |
| Seitenanzahl | 255 |
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