| What Works: A Decade of Change at Champion International Contributor(s): Ault, Richard E. (Author), Walton, Richard (Author), Childers, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 0787941816 ISBN-13: 9780787941819 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons OUR PRICE: $42.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 1998 Annotation: Between 1986 and 1997, Champion International, one of America's oldest and largest industrial companies, turned itself from an underachieving, tradition-bound organization into a visionary competitor. Part inspiration and part instruction, Champion's Cinderella story of perseverance and triumph - told by the leaders who helped plan and participated in the transformation - contains lessons for every manager facing the challenge of change. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Corporate & Business History - General - Business & Economics | Infrastructure - Business & Economics | Entrepreneurship |
| Dewey: 338.767 |
| LCCN: 98-19730 |
| Series: Jossey-Bass Business & Management |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 6.3" W x 9.32" (0.80 lbs) 212 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An Inside Account of One Company's Remarkable Transformation Take a fascinating, decade-long journey to witness the remarkabletransformation of a mediocre company into a team-based topcompetitor. Your guides are a trio of participant/observers, allkey players in achieving this systemic change of classicproportion. --Jerome M. Rosow, president, Work in America Institute, Inc. Anyone in a leadership position today, union or management, shouldread this book. It tells the important story of howlabor/management partnerships can make a difference and provideworkable solutions to complex problems presented by today's globaleconomy. --Boyd Young, international president, United PaperworkersInternational Union A Cinderella story of perseverance and triumph, What Works is aninstructive guide to achieving success through cooperation, teamwork, and courage. It tells the tale of how ChampionInternational--one of America's oldest and largest industrial papercompanies--transformed itself from an underachieving, tradition-bound organization into a thriving Wall Street winnerover the course of eleven years. In answering the question of how acompany can change successfully over time while remaining bothhumane and profitable, this brisk, brutally honest, insiders'account offers a number of hard-won lessons and practical tools tomanagers and visionaries faced with the same daunting challenges. |