The Living Company
Book Details
Author(s)
Arie De Geus
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN / ASIN
1578518202
ISBN-13
9781578518203
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Sales Rank
#527,924
Category
Business & Economics
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Description
The average life span of a Fortune 500 company is less than half a century, yet there also are corporations around the world that have been in business for 200, 500, even 700 years. Arie de Geus, a retired Royal Dutch/Shell Group executive, maintains after studying both extremes that the most enduring treat their companies as "living work communities" rather than pure economic machines. The Living Company: Habits for Survival in a Turbulent Business Environment persuasively outlines his resultant prescription for organizational longevity.
