James O'Toole 的幾本著作: Vanguard Management,Leading Change, The Executive's Compass: Business and the Good Society

歲末我從牛津大學出版社的幾本特價書及其作者.
想到最近二十幾年的一些與書及其作者的緣份
James O'Toole 的幾本著作: Vanguard Management,Leading C...
Vanguard Management 是1985的名著主角是Motorola公司 當時處於鼎盛 我也在1985-86 加入台灣的Motorola公司.....該公司已瓦解---內壢廠區現在是惡名昭彰的日月光公司所有......Leading Change 一書也影響我很大


CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER: The Search for a New Paradi...
http://hcbooks.blogspot.tw/2011/12/christopher-alexander-search-for-new.html
我之所以要特別記一下本書是因為有些書緣

1986年我翻譯 Christopher Alexander的《形之合成》Notes on the Synthesis of Form (1964)
1987-88年我在東海建築研究所教的以CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDE的學說為主.
那時候台灣可以買到他在牛津大學出版社OUP的新書 A New Theory of Urban Design, with Neis, Anninou, and King (1987)
 2013年聖誕節特價. 我的這本書已為蟲蛀.....
.....
1987年我在東海建築研究所的一位學生現在是東海總務長.
而我的老朋友捐贈母校的"陳之藩書房---"等案子與他有接觸.....



2009.
許老師

昨晚讀完您的"相反論述"的想法如下
我想這是一種很古老的說法 或許可以說是某種"孤臣孽子"的說法
我門企業管理界以前也有人處理過類似的問題
譬如說

Leading Change (Paperback)

by James O'Toole
他處理著名的管理思想學者如 Peter Drucker and W. Edwards Deming 等人的說法類似

Deming 博士所受的委屈可能更大得多
換句話說 相反論述的例子 活生生的 不少
如果您有興趣 我們可以多談或進一步來談
甚至可以在今年十月中我們的紀念演講會來談

The Executive's Compass

Business and the Good Society

James O'Toole

The most difficult issues facing business leaders today are not technical in nature, but are often rooted in differences in social, political, and economic values--questions about which there is no objective truth. In The Executive's Compass, James O'Toole explores the historical and philosophical roots of current values-based conflicts revolving around such issues as the environment, workforce diversity, foreign production, and executive pay. He ranges far and wide in covering a variety of topics: the ideological positions of the friends and foes of business; what is wrong (and right) with our democratic system; and what the role of business is in creating The Good Society. And he presents a practical framework for thinking about these questions: his innovative Executive's Compass--honed at The Aspen Institute's famed Executive Seminar and applied successfully at many FORTUNE 500 firms.
For top executives, general managers, and anyone trying to practice values-based leadership, The Executive's Compass offers a practical tool to deal more effectively with the thorny new issues that technical training leaves professionsl ill-prepared to handle.

Description

American society has become increasingly polarized by single- and special-interest groups: the Greens, who demand environmental purity; admirers of Japan who want a national industrial policy; supply-side economists who want government to all but disappear. This collision of values has turned America into a battleground of either/or tradeoffs: the community vs. the individual, the environment vs. jobs, the rights of each ethnic group vs. the needs of the nation for unity. Whose values should prevail? Those of Libertarians? Communitarians? Egalitarians? Corporatists? The nation's leadership role in the post-communist world will be largely determined by how such conflicts in the political economy are resolved.

Increasingly, business executives find themselves drawn into these values wars, forced to make decisions in a hothouse climate in which there are countless and conflicting opinions about what is right and wrong. Business leaders find themselves caught in the values thicket when they attempt to formulate corporate policy on such issues as plant closings, executive compensation, corporate governance, and affirmative action. In The Executive's Compass, James O'Toole guides business leaders through this minefield of modern dilemmas. In the words of ARCO's CEO, Lod Cook, "O'Toole provides business leaders with a practical compass to help them navigate the turbulent waters of social change and political conflict."

O'Toole explores the philosophical and historical underpinnings of contemporary business problems, tracing their origins to the ideas of such great thinkers as Aristotle, Adam Smith, J.S. Mill, and Jefferson. By going to the roots of modern issues, he is able to clarify the sources of political disagreement, and to suggest a practical course of action for corporate leaders who find themselves caught in the gridlock of democracy. He provides an innovative values compass--a tool he has honed for over forty years as a moderator of the Aspen Institute Executive Seminar--which has been successfully applied at FORTUNE 500 firms as an introduction to the values-based management for which the Aspen Institute is renowned. The compass helps executives to understand what is wrong (and right) with our democratic system, and what the role of business is in creating The Good Society.

For top executives, general managers, or anyone trying to make sense out of our rapidly changing world, The Executive's Compass helps managers deal more effectively with today's thorny issues.

Author Information

James O'Toole is Executive Director of the Leadership Institute. He holds the University Associates' Chair of Management at the USC Graduate School of Business. He has recently been Editor of New Management magazine and is author of ten books, including Vanguard Management, named by Business Week as one of the best business and economics books of 1985.