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    Re-Inventing the Corporation (Review and Analysis of Naisbitt and Aburdene's Book)
    Re-Inventing the Corporation (Review and Analysis of Naisbitt and Aburdene's Book)
    Re-Inventing the Corporation (Review and Analysis of Naisbitt and Aburdene's Book)
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    Re-Inventing the Corporation (Review and Analysis of Naisbitt and Aburdene's Book)

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    The must-read summary of John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene's book: "Re-Inventing the Corporation: Transforming Your Job and Your Company for the New Information Society".

    This complete summary of the ideas from John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene's book "Re-Inventing the Corporation" shows that there is currently a window of opportunity open to re-invent the way business and society is structured. This opportunity has been generated by two trends which have converged at this specific point in history. In their book, the authors explain that, as a result, the concept of the corporation as a business unit must be re-invented if the corporation is to remain the building block of the business infrastructure. This summary provides guidelines that you can follow to transform your job and your company in line with the new information society.

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    To learn more, read "Re-Inventing the Corporation" and discover the key to evolving and moving towards the future.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBusiness Book Summaries
    Release dateSep 29, 2014
    ISBN9782511016343
    Re-Inventing the Corporation (Review and Analysis of Naisbitt and Aburdene's Book)

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      Re-Inventing the Corporation (Review and Analysis of Naisbitt and Aburdene's Book) - BusinessNews Publishing

      Book Presentation: Re-Inventing the Corporation by John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene

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      Summary of Re-Inventing the Corporation (John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene)

      1. The Need To Re-Invent Corporations

      2. 10 Key Re-Invention Guidelines

      3. Re-Inventing Work

      4. The Skills of the New Information Society

      5. Education and the Corporation

      6. Health and the Corporation

      7. Women and the Corporation

      Book Abstract

      MAIN IDEA

      There is currently a window of opportunity open to re-invent the way business and society is structured. This opportunity has been generated by two trends which have converged at this specific point in history:

      New social values are emerging as people move away from an authoritarian model to an individualistic model.

      Economic necessity generated by global economic imperatives as the economy changes from industrial to information based.

      As a result, corporations must restructure the way they carry out business. In other words, the concept of the corporation as a business units must be re-invented if the corporation is to remain the building block of the business infrastructure. Lying at the heart of this process is the key fact that while the industrial society transformed workers into consumers, the information society is in the process of transforming employees into capitalists. Re-invented corporations will find ways to work with that transition, while older corporations will inevitable face extinction.

      At one time, corporations talked seriously about their responsibility to help the community in which they did business. Today, however, the re-invented corporations are becoming so interconnected with society that being responsible is essentially a part of the social and economic contract by which they exist. In this regard,

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