Navigating Change: How Ceos, Top Teams, and Boards Steer Transformation

by Donald C. Hambrick (Editor), David A. Nadler

Navigating Change is a colloquium volume which brings together the latest insights and ideas on senior leadership from the world's foremost business thinkers and practitioners. Including contributions from such prominent CEOs as Paul Allaire of Xerox, Jamie Houghton of Corning, and Bob Bauman, formerly of SmithKline Beecham, as well as academic experts such as Manfred Kets de Vries, Chris Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal, and Kathleen Eisenhardt, the volume captures timely and pragmatic ideas on institutional leadership and governance in the face of profound and continuous change. Successful corporate transformation requires vigilance, appetite for change, concerted effort, and clarity of purpose from three distinct but interconnected the CEO, the top management team, and the board of directors. This lively and collaborative collection--shaped by a conference at Columbia Business School's executive campus at which the contributors debated their ideas--examines all three and their roles in designing and navigating effective corporate change. It will serve as both a guide for future research on top executives and a catalyst for action among senior leaders.

414 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1997

About the author

Donald C. Hambrick is the Samuel Bronfman Professor of Democratic Business Enterprise at
the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University.

He holds degrees from the University of Colorado (B.S.), Harvard University (MBA), and the Pennsylvania State University (Ph.D.).
An active consultant and executive education instructor, he also served as president of the Academy of Management