Hope is Not a Method: What Business Leaders Can Learn from America's Army - Hardcover

Sullivan, Gordon R; Harper, Michael V

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0812927877 ISBN 13: 9780812927870

Publisher: Times Books, 1996

Synopsis

In a time when the world's great businesses - from IBM and General Motors to Wal-Mart and Microsoft - are struggling with the challenge of change, a surprising source of powerful leadership ideas has emerged: the new U.S. Army.
A global powerhouse with nearly 1.5 million employees, an annual budget of $6.3 billion, and strategic alliances in every major nation, the Army is one of the world's vastest, most complex organizations. Remarkably, since the end of the Cold War, the Army has been transformed more thoroughly - and more successfully - than any business. It has retooled for the Information Age, tackled and mastered a bewildering array of new missions, and moved to shed decades-old bureaucratic methods - all while dramatically downsizing.
In Hope Is Not a Method, General Gordon R. Sullivan, the Army Chief of Staff who led the transformation, and Colonel Michael V. Harper, one of his key strategic planners and thinkers, provide businesspeople with the practical lessons of their experience.

About this title

About the Author:

Gordon R. Sullivan was chief of staff of the U.S. Army from 1991 to 1995, culminating a distinguished military career. Professor of strategic leadership and chair of the CEO Forum of the School of Management at Boston University, he lives in Washington, D.C. Michael V. Harper was director of the Army's Strategic Planning Group from 1991 to 1995. He now runs The Harper Group, a business consulting firm. He lives in Springfield, Virginia.

Synopsis:

Explains how corporate leaders can draw on the lessons of the military to cope with quick responses to accelerating global change, new technologies, and shrinking resources.

About this edition

• Publisher: Times Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0812927877
• ISBN 13: 9780812927870
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 294