Guts (eBook)

8 Laws of Business from One of the Most Innovative Business Leaders of Our Time, Revised and Updated

Robert A. Lutz (Autor)

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2003 | 1. Auflage
256 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-471-47098-4 (ISBN)

Infos

"Read it for no other reason than to learn Bob's Seven ImmutableLaws of Business. . . . This is vintage Bob-contrarian, thoughtful,and he's really fun to read."
--Forbes

In this edition of Bob Lutz's bestselling account of thebusiness philosophy with which he revolutionized Chrysler and muchof the automotive industry, Lutz reveals his unique brand ofcreative management. Readers will learn many lessons herein,including why the key to success in any business is maintaining apositive tension between the creative minds and the buttoned-upfinancial minds, and how to attract, motivate, and strategicallydeploy each type throughout an organization. This book features anew introduction and an epilogue in which Lutz introduces an eighthlaw that helps today's business leaders put his famed SevenImmutable Laws of Business into sharper perspective.

Robert A. Lutz (Scarsdale, NY) is General Motor's ViceChairman of Product Development and Chairman of GM NorthAmerica.

Autor

ROBERT A. LUTZ is General Motors's Vice Chairman of Product Development and Chairman of GM North America. He is highly regarded for his genius in product development, most notably for his 1989 concept car, the Viper, and he is renowned for leading Chrysler to its second renaissance in the 1990s. Automotive News called Lutz "the towering figure in the American automotive industry in the last three decades in this century."

Inhalt

Introduction.

Foreword by Bob Eaton.

Acknowledgments.

Prologue.

PART I: THE STORY OF CHRYSLER'S SECOND TURNAROUND.

Déjà Vu All Over Again.

The Patient Heals Himself: Bringing Platform Teams toChrysler.

"We Just Did It": The Story of the Viper.

PART II: LUTZ'S IMMUTABLE LAWS OF BUSINESS.

LAW 1 The Customer Isn't Always Right.

LAW 2 The Primary Purpose of Business Is Not to Make Money.

LAW 3 When Everybody Else Is Doing It, Don't!

LAW 4 Too Much Quality Can Ruin You.

LAW 5 Financial Controls Are Bad!

LAW 6 Disruptive People Are an Asset.

LAW 7 Teamwork Isn't Always Good.

PART III: LUTZ'S COROLLARIES, OR "THEREST OF THE STORY!".

It's Okay to Be Anal Sometimes.

A Little Fear, in Reality, Ain't All That Bad.

Leadership Is All about Common Sense, Which, Unfortunately, IsNot All That Common.

Some Squeaky Wheels Don't Get the Grease, or Pros and Consof Being a Change Agent.

Epilogue.

Index.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.11.2003
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Personalwesen
• Schlagworte: Business & Management • Chrysler • Kraftfahrzeugindustrie • Management • Wirtschaft • Wirtschaft u. Management
• ISBN-10: 0-471-47098-8 / 0471470988
• ISBN-13: 978-0-471-47098-4 / 9780471470984