Corporate Culture and Performance

This book is an easy read for anyone Kotter really did a good job on this one I would recommend for students and professionals

This book, while very academic, gives a solid understanding of several theories about corporate culture and its effects on performance (both short-term and long-term). Rather than starting out with an agenda, they studied hundreds of companies taking analyst's and insider's opinions for information about the culture and then looked at the results. Probably the best finding was that the most successful cultures were those that valued all three interests- customers, shareholders, and employees- consistently.

Good read.

Book is a comprehensive easy to read and digest account of the landmark study done that demonstrates the relationship between the Quality of the culture of the organization and the outcomes achieved.The biggest revelation to me was that the strength of an organizational culture has little to do with what it can achieve.The factors of leadership, entreneuralism and focus on 4 key contingencies were of much greater impact.I would suggest this as mandatory reading for any leader in these changing, globally influenced, economic times we are in.

thank you

A true classic that is rich with pragmatism.

This book was rating the different top 10 companies that followed a set of rules and regulations of success within the business environment. And the ratings of the different 10 companies who didn't.follow the the set rules and regulations; and tabulated each company's success rating outcome.

As it is advertised

This book is timeless and raises issues seen in corporations to this day... Especially since the 2008 credit crunch...Board members ask me, do we have a risk culture? I answer, more importantly, is your culture a risk, and are you managing that first?

Great authors

An in depth study into corporate culture and how the most successful cultures are those that value employees customers, shareholders, and employees equally.

Highly Recommended

Purtroppo il testo è del 1992 e mancano gli effetti del re-engineering e del post-re-engineering, tuttavia resta un fondamentale che è opportuno leggere per comprendere come l'adattamento all'ambiente (cliente/dipendente/azionista) sia la caratteristica delle aziende capaci di cambiare con successo.