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Book SynopsisRational leadership inspires confidence by capably using appropriate rational means, as described in the first edition of Rational Leadership. Now a second, updated edition has added eight new chapters and has looked at redevelopment as well as development. The book highlights these two important versions of rational leadership, where a rational leader is either developing or redeveloping a business corporation. Part One presents eight cases of rational leaders who have developed iconic corporations. These best-practice leaders include Sam Walton of Walmart, Meg Whitman of eBay, and Jeff Bezos of Amazon. In all eight cases, the leaders used appropriate adaptive, calculative, and deliberative methods to develop their corporations. In Part Two the authors shift the focus from development to redevelopment. Part Two presents five classic cases of rational leaders redeveloping - remedially renewing - problematic corporations. The leaders include Lou Gerstner of IBM and Steve Jobs of Apple.
Table of ContentsPart 1: Developing Iconic Corporations 1: Rational Business Leadership 2: GM: Sloan's My Years With General Motors 3: Toyota: Ohno's Toyota Production System 4: McDonald's: Kroc's Grinding It Out 5: Wal-Mart: Walton's Made in America 6: Intel: Grove's Only the Paranoid Survive 7: eBay: Whitman's The Power of Many 8: Amazon: Bezos's Invent & Wander 9: GA: Armani's Giorgio Armani Part 2: Redeveloping Corporations 10: Leaders Rationally Redeveloping Corporations 11: Nike: Knight's Shoe Dog 12: Chrysler: Lee's Iacocca and Lutz's Guts 13: IBM: Gerstner's Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? 14: Apple: Redeveloped by Steve Jobs 15: Charisma and Rational Redevelopment 16: GE: Immelt's Hot Seat
