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    The Rainmaker Effect: Contradictions of the Learning Organization
    Sisyphus in Management: The Futile Search for the Optimal Organizational Structure
    When the Monkeys Run the Zoo: The Pitfalls of Flat Hierarchies
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    Challenges of New Organizational Forms Series

    By Stefan Kühl

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    About this series

    On the one hand, employees are supposed to compete with one another as “intrapreneurs,” on the other, cooperation among employees is a top priority. The motto is: we are all pulling together but only the best will prevail. On the one hand, “intrapreneurs” are supposed to break the rules that have been handed down from abo

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOrganizational Dialogue Press
    Release dateSep 1, 2017
    The Rainmaker Effect: Contradictions of the Learning Organization
    Sisyphus in Management: The Futile Search for the Optimal Organizational Structure
    When the Monkeys Run the Zoo: The Pitfalls of Flat Hierarchies

    Titles in the series (3)

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      When the Monkeys Run the Zoo: The Pitfalls of Flat Hierarchies
      When the Monkeys Run the Zoo: The Pitfalls of Flat Hierarchies

      When the Monkeys Run the Zoo: The Pitfalls of Flat Hierarchies

      Stefan Kühl
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      Every change takes its toll. Stefan Kühl critically examines the blind enthusiasm that continues to celebrate the leveling of hierarchies and the decentralization of organizations.  Relying on studies performed in European and U.S. companies, Kühl describes why these management concepts can carry organizations to the edge of extin

      Every change takes its toll. Stefan Kühl critically examines the blind enthusiasm that continues to celebrate the leveling of hierarchies and the decentralization of organizations.  Relying on studies performed in European and U.S. companies, Kühl describes why these management concepts can carry organizations to the edge of extin

    • 2

      The Rainmaker Effect: Contradictions of the Learning Organization
      The Rainmaker Effect: Contradictions of the Learning Organization

      The Rainmaker Effect: Contradictions of the Learning Organization

      Stefan Kühl
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      The belief that rainmakers bring rain is a superstition, but they are able to create cohesion among the people who believe in their powers. Stefan Kühl describes how the rainmaker effect works in the model of the learning organization. Many of the modern management principles that are billed as formulas for success – e.g., clear objec

      The belief that rainmakers bring rain is a superstition, but they are able to create cohesion among the people who believe in their powers. Stefan Kühl describes how the rainmaker effect works in the model of the learning organization. Many of the modern management principles that are billed as formulas for success – e.g., clear objec

    • 3

      Sisyphus in Management: The Futile Search for the Optimal Organizational Structure
      Sisyphus in Management: The Futile Search for the Optimal Organizational Structure

      Sisyphus in Management: The Futile Search for the Optimal Organizational Structure

      Stefan Kühl
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      On the one hand, employees are supposed to compete with one another as “intrapreneurs,” on the other, cooperation among employees is a top priority. The motto is: we are all pulling together but only the best will prevail. On the one hand, “intrapreneurs” are supposed to break the rules that have been handed down from abo

      On the one hand, employees are supposed to compete with one another as “intrapreneurs,” on the other, cooperation among employees is a top priority. The motto is: we are all pulling together but only the best will prevail. On the one hand, “intrapreneurs” are supposed to break the rules that have been handed down from abo

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