Oil Change: Perspectives on Corporate Transformation is the second book in the new Oxford series The Learning History Library. Each book gets inside a company at a crucial time of change, offering a unique opportunity to see innovation from the inside out. Oil Change: Perspectives on Corporate Transformation is the story of major corporate change undertaken by OilCo, a pseudonym for a major international oil company, just after a time of layoffs and cutbacks. Key people within the company tell the story, using a technique developed at MIT's Center for Organizational Learning. One hundred and fifty employees were interviewed at all levels of the company, from hourly workers to the executive council. They worked in all primary OilCo businesses: exploration and production, refining and retail, chemical and oil consulting. During this time, all the firms values came into question, including its business practices, corporate governance structure, team management, and leadership style. Oil Change: Perspectives on Corporate Transformation gives students an inside look at what OilCo learned collectively.

Oil Change: Perspectives on Corporate Transformation (The ^ALearning History Library)

Business & Money

George Roth

Art Kleiner

Ann Thomas

Toni Gregory

Edward Hamell

Biography & History

Oxford University Press

The Age of Heretics

Management & Leadership

Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group

In this second edition of his bestselling book, author Art Kleiner explores the nature of effective leadership in times of change and defines its importance to the corporation of the future. He describes a heretic as a visionary who creates change in large-scale companies, balancing the contrary truths they can't deny against their loyalty to their organizations. The Age of Heretics reveals how managers can get stuck in counterproductive ways of doing things and shows why it takes a heretical point of view to get past the deadlock and move forward.

Age of Heretics

Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated

The 90th anniversary year of Booz Allen Hamilton, this book charts the history of the firm, the founder of the modern management consulting profession. Since its founding in 1914, Booz Allen has been involved in the emergence of modern corporations in the 1920s and 1930s, the Allied mobilization in World War II, the beginning and end of the Cold War, the dawn of the Space Age, the evolution of the personal computer, the breakup of old telephone systems and the creation of new ones, early public-private sector work in the European Union, the emergence of strong economies in Asia and South America, the waves of deregulation in the 1980s, the movement for environmental protection, and the birth of the modern U.S. National Football League. Booz Allen has also been witness to or participant in the reunification of Germany, the Gulf Wars, and the response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11. The firm's 90th anniversary book "Helping Clients Envision the Future" captures the highlights of Booz Allen's rich history and future direction through 128 pages of narrative, personal anecdotes, full-color images, and historical artifacts. "We occupy a unique position as a consulting firm that implements as well as it thinks - with vitality strong capabilities in commercial and government work and the rare ability to integrate them," writes Booz Allen Chairman and CEO Dr. Ralph Shrader in the foreword to the book. "Most important, we have a reputation for operating successfully, responsibly, and ethically. This is priceless, especially at a time when the survival of many professional services firms has been challenged."

BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON: Helping Clients Envision the Future

Greenwich Publishing Group, In

The Wise Advocate: The Inner Voice of Strategic Leadership

Jeffrey M. Schwartz, M.D.

Josie Thomson

Tantor and Blackstone Publishing

When corporate leaders announce, with seeming sincerity that they make their decisions on behalf of their shareholders, their words are taken at face value. But as recent news stories prove, this imperative is routinely violated. In Who Really Matters Art Kleiner argues that the dissonance between a declared mission and actual operation can be seen in both large and small organistions. All organisations have one motive in common: everything they do - choosing which projects to back, who to promote, where to spend the money is affected by the perceived wants and needs of a core group of key people. The composition of the core group can differ from organisation to organisation. Often the most senior people in the hierarchy are members - but not always. Sometimes the people who matter can extend far down the corporate ladder, as well as reach outside the company to include key customers, union leaders and stock holders. Kleiner gives readers the key to reading a core group's real mission by observing its day-to-day actions, including what its fundamental message to employees is and how it gets that message across: how it manages the energy of new members, what basic ideas shape its policies, about management, money and the way the world works, and what taboos govern the way it operates.

Who Really Matters : The Core Group Theory of Power, Privilege and Success

Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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