The authors -- A framework for developing successful organizations -- How to build successful companies: the pyramid of organizational development -- Identifying and surviving the first four stages of organizational growth -- Recognizing growing pains and assessing the need for change --...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1 A Framework for Developing Successful Organizations -- Chapter 1 Transitions Required to Build Sustainably Successful Organizations® -- Organizational Success, Decline, and Failure -- Building Sustainably...

Contents; Preface; 1. Corporate Culture: The Invisible Asset; 2. Culture Management Foundations; 3. Culture Management Process and Tools; 4. Managing the Customer Orientation Dimension of Culture; 5. Managing the People Orientation Dimension of Culture; 6. Managing the Performance Standards and...

A framework -- The evolution of family businesses -- Strategic planning -- Organizational structure and roles -- Performance management -- Culture management -- The dark side -- Leadership -- Succession.

Argues that firms succeed or fail in their industries according to the degree to which they are able to change to meet changing market decisions. The authors present a framework for managing the process of organizational transformation, and the tools that are necessary to manage that change