Business at a Crossroads: The Crisis of Corporate Leadership

Author:   Tom Lloyd
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2010
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9781349311873


Pages:   199
Publication Date:   22 October 2009
Format:   Paperback
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Business at a Crossroads: The Crisis of Corporate Leadership


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Recent events suggest liberal capitalism harbours two dangerous seeds of self-destruction; growing inequality and a tendency for markets to spiral out of control. This book advocates the restoration to an earlier state of another sub-system of liberal capitalism, some of the features of which lie at the heart of liberal capitalism's malaise.

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Author:   Tom Lloyd
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2010
Weight:   0.332kg
ISBN:  

9781349311873


ISBN 10:   1349311871
Pages:   199
Publication Date:   22 October 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: What Ails Big Business What People Want A Feudal Heritage The Steam-Age Corporation The Decadent Corporation Not So Much Greed The Myth Of Leadership PART II: Reforming Big Business Leaderless Competitors The Adaptive Challenge Size And Shape Corporate Reformation

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'Tom Lloyd provides a sparkling explosion of shibboleths and myths about the corporate sector in the course of a coruscating attack on excessive executive remuneration.' - John Kay, economist and author of The Long and the Short of It'


Author Information

TOM LLOYD is a management writer and author. He is a former editor of Financial Weekly and Management Today, was founding editor of Gemini Consulting's quarterly management journal Transformation and wrote the 'Working Brief' column in The Sunday Telegraph for several years. He has written five books, including Managing Knowhow, with Karl-Erik Sveiby (Bloomsbury 1987) and The 'nice' company (Bloomsbury 1990). He was also the co-author of the successful A Woman's Place is in the Boardroom and A Woman's Place is in the Boardroom: The Roadmap with Peninah Thomson and Jacey Graham (Palgrave 2005, 2008).

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