Introduction: The Challenge of Challenge: Organizing for Competitive Advantage; Part One: Designing Competitive Organizations; 1. Corporate Boards: Developing Effectiveness at the Top; 2. Linking Customers and Products: Organizing for Product and Customer Focus; 3. Designing the Networked Organization: Leveraging Size and Competencies; 4. Structuring Global Organizations; Part Two: Enabling Competitive Performance; 5. Organizing for Competencies and Capabilities: Bridging from Strategy to Effectiveness; 6. The Changing Nature of Work: Managing the Impact of Information Technology; 7. Employee Involvement, Reengineering, and TQM: Focusing on Capability Development; Part Three: Managing People in the Competitive Organization; 8. The New Human Resources Management: Creating the Strategic Business Partnership; 9. The New Learning Partnership: Sharing Responsibility for Building Competence; 10. Executive Education: A Critical Lever for Organizational Change; 11. Strategic Pay System Design; Part Four: Transforming the Organization; 12. Teams and Technology: ExtAnding the Power of Collaboration; 13. Accelerating Organizational Learning During Transition; 14. Catalizing Organizational Learning During Transition.

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