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Agile Networking: Competing Through the Internet and Intranets
Published in Textbook Binding by Prentice Hall PTR (January, 1998)
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Partners for the Dance: Forming Strategic Alliances in Health Care
Published in Paperback by Health Administration Press (April, 1995)
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The Difference Engine: Achieving Powerful and Sustainable Partnering
Published in Hardcover by Gower Pub Co (August, 1998)
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Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Colloboration
Published in Hardcover by Perseus Publishing (April, 1999)
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For years, Warren Bennis has written about leadership in works such as Learning to Lead, Beyond Leadership, and the bestselling On Becoming a Leader. His aim in these well-received titles was to catalog the traits and styles of leadership that help individuals excel in their work. In his new book (and already another bestseller) Organizing Genius, Bennis declares the age of the empowered individual ended: what matters now is "collaborative advantage" and the assembling of powerful teams. Drawing from six case studies that include Xerox's PARC labs, the 1992 Clinton campaign, and Disney animation studios, Bennis and coauthor Patricia Biederman distill the characteristics of successful collaboration, showing how talent can be pooled and managed for greater results than any individual is capable of producing. Organized in easily digested chapters and written in clear, concise prose, Organizing Genius will be useful to folks finding their way in new organizational structures. The lessons Bennis and Biederman offer in the final chapter of the book don't constitute the obvious advice most business books convey; these are real experiences gleaned from the stories of collaboration they surveyed.
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Unlocking The Secrets Of Creative Collaboration
The magic is in the synergy.This absorbing work explores the marriage between able leadership and the organization of gifted people that, combined, produces extraordinary results. The authors examine seven such groups including the Skunk Works, the Manhattan Project, Disney Feature Animation Unit, and President Clinton's 1992 campaign team. The book concludes with fifteen lessons of great groups. Extensive notes are provided.
The authors clearly reveal the complex SYNERGY between leadership and organization that creates high-performance teams, but one has to also consider the influence environmental circumstances-threats and opportunities. Abounds with excellent insights. Reviewed by Gerry Stern, founder, HR consultant.com InfoCenter and Stern & Associates.
Really Great InsightsI got tremendous value out of this book. While I did not see or connect with all the Great Groups that Bennis used as case studies, there are powerful ideas and insights in every one of them. I have summarzied his 15 "Take Home Lessons" in a one page handout and include it in the materials for our School for Innovators and on operational Thinking Expeditions. I also got a video of "Fat Man & Little Boy" - the Manhattan Project (which is cited in the book) and have referenced it often as an example of a powerfully urgent Great Group coalesces and collabortes differently. For anyone trying to not just launch a fastforward team, but who also wants to inspire that team to greatness, this is a must read. Caution: this is not a "how to do it" book - rather it tells the story and paints the picture, and its up to the reader to take his or her own learnings and how to out of it (iontuitively).
Building Strategic Relationships : How to Extend Your Organization's Reach Through Partnerships, Alliances, and Joint Ventures
Published in Hardcover by Jossey-Bass (15 May, 1995)
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Wheres the beef?This book discusses partnerships from a macro point of view and is very vague. If your are interested in learning how to structure joint ventures and/or partnerships - this isnt the book.
Very insightful and practical.Easy to read and the most useful for people initiating alliances. Attention to the soft side of alliances is the most useful. Very few people deal with this critical aspect of alliances. My colleagues and I want to hear more from this author.
reveals the underlying principles of successful parthershipThis is a thorough, well researched collection of case studies and best practices. Makes the case for why and how strategic, cross boundary relationships are the new models for doing business in todays marketplace.
Managing Mergers Acquisitions and Strategic Alliances : Integrating people and cultures
Published in Paperback by Butterworth-Heinemann (13 December, 1995)
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Ok Book, if you are looking for the How To?I have the view of the investor who would like to be better able to analyze announced public acquisitions and their odds of being completed. In general this book does a good job explaning basic securities laws. I am glad of reading this book. Now if any one can suggest any other book regarding mergers in deeper and with more technical information, please email me. Thanks.
Great Capture of Recent Merger Research in Regard to HRI found this book to be tremendously useful due to its combination of scientific research as well as illustrative case studies. Too many books focus solely on subjective measures of the human side of mergers and acquisitions while ignoring recent studies in the field. This book is the only one that I have seen that truly is helpful for consultants or scientists who want to brush up on current trends on the subject, or develop a foundation for future research and projects. This book is highly recommended for HR personnel, I/O Psychologists, executives or anyone else involved in the merger process.
The Alliance Revolution: The New Shape of Business Rivalry
Published in Hardcover by Harvard Univ Pr (May, 1996)
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Out dated and boring as heckI couln't even finish the book. It was one big boring story of Xerox and what they did and did not do. There were other examples but I could not keep my eyes open.
An excellent book on alliance networksAlliance Revolution is without doubt the best book out there dealing specifically with alliance networks and constellations. It should be helpful to anyone who has to wrestle with structuring or managing alliance networks, or cope with the impact of such networks on their industry or business. A serious, thoughtful book on a topic few executives can afford to ignore.
A Wonderful BookVery new view although it is drawn from some old stories! It shows you a new eye to look at the business world, very inspriring!
Co-Branding: The Science of Alliance
Published in Hardcover by Palgrave Macmillan (January, 2000)
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Not much science in this book.The Science of Alliance; it's a great title for a great, undervalued branding topic. Co-branding can be a simple short-term dual promotion or a long-term strategy in which brands, organizations and other entities may be strongly involved (take Wintel f.e. if you know what I mean). There is some good scientific research on the subject around now, published since the mid nineties in the journals of the AMA. None of it in this book however (as noticed by EM). It's the usual business cases, risks and pitfalls, a retailers perspective... even a small article on legal issues. Obviously, this is neither a science nor an IDEA book! What would be really interesting for example is how a co-branding perspective could be integrated in the development of new products, or even better: how can co-branding lead to better (perceived!) products, services and organizations? From Interbrand you might expect an article on (co-branding) naming strategies. There are a lot of missed chances here, but what do you expect from the first 120 printed bookpages on co-branding? The high price makes it double expensive.
good overall reviewits gives you a pretty good idea of the purpose and nature of cobranding but this being a new product and strategy utilised by corporations and small companies it is impossible to get a very specific understanding of it.
The book gives an informative insightThis book is fascinating, but it does leave out past researchers Varadarajan (1987): Simonin and Ruth (1998) who have both written theories into co-branding. It only looked at co-branding from a business viewpoint and not a customer attitude viewpoint. The book linked branding and co-branding, with a wide definition of the co-branding process. As a marketer, researching the subject, I feel the book only scratched the surface of co-branding and the endless opportunitites were not defined. It provided a good backdrop of merits and risks of co-branding but did not state the most important challenges, to marketers.
Managing Cultures: Making Strategic Relationships Work
Published in Hardcover by John Wiley & Sons (16 May, 1996)
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Smart, v. academic but rings true...culture clashes cost $$The origins of her work lie in the early observations by Aristotle (Greek philosopher who lived between 384-322 B.C) that there are four basic personalities which show through strongly in organisations aswell as individuals.
Knowing this you can predict the knock-on effect of a merger between two distinctly different organisations (were a logical merger seems OK - in fact it may not be and may cost you dearly).
Worth the read!
The Nature of Chaos in Business : Using Complexity to Foster Successful Global Alliances
Published in Hardcover by Gulf Professional Publishing (08 July, 1999)
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Very DisappointingI awaited the arrival of this book with great anticipation, but was extremely disappointed by the actual product. The authors are consultants and it shows. The book is filled with a lot of nice buzz words which don't really say much of anything. My impression is that while their actual presentations to clients are probably useful, they tried to make this book so generally applicable as to render it largely useless.
This is one of the first books that I have read in a long time that never inspired that "aha" moment... when you say... wow, I'd never thought of that before. I slogged my way through the entire book hoping that I might find that moment. Instead you get such amazing insights as listen to your employees and manage interpersonal relationships. In addition, the authors spend a lot of time talking about Chaos and Complexity without really telling you much about how to use those concepts. For those interested in complexity and chaos and the work of the Santa Fe Institute I would suggest you skip this book and instead go for James Gleick's "Chaos" or Mitchell Waldrop's "Complexity" - a much better investment of your time and effort.
However, the one weakness of Bennis's book was his decision to include the election team involved in Bill Clinton's 1992 Presidential win as a Great Group. I disagree with Bennis's premise that the Clinton campaign team had some of the same characteristics as the remarkable group that brought home the stranded astronauts of Apollo 13. The Apollo 13 Great Group was able to save the lives of three astronauts after a mysterious in-flight explosion in outer space, because of incredible ingenuity and teamwork. Clinton won the 1992 Presidential election because of good timing. The election results of 1992 were dominated by a poorly performing American economy with high unemployment and a rather unpopular incumbent President, named George Bush.