The Organizational Champion Webcast 12 - Is Your Company Upside Down?

11/06/2009 35 min

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Show Notes:In the News:Did Professional Management Cause the Fall of GM? (HBR)http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/hbr/hbreditors/2009/06/professional_management_and_th.htmlAlfred Sloan and The Great GM Mystery
Alfred Sloan was the Leader of GM from the 1920's through the 1950's
On paper, Sloan espoused a scientific, strongly hierarchical style of leadership
In practice, the unintended consequences of that style of leadership led him to lead very differently
His successors misunderstood this and later led GM into some stormy waters







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