books by Ronald N. Ashkenas

books by Ronald N. Ashkenas

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Ronald N. Ashkenas

The Boundaryless Organization: Breaking the Chains of Organizational Structure

Ronald N. Ashkenas, Dave Ulrich, ...

Jossey-Bass, 1998

Yes and No
The title is a misnomer: Although the authors do indeed suggest how to "break through the chains of organizational structure", they provide an enlightening explanation of four different types of boundaries (vertical, horizontal, external, and geographic) which give ...

The Boundaryless Organization **ISBN: 9780787959432**
Ronald N. (EDT)/ Ulrich, Dave/ Jick, Todd/ Kerr, Steve Ashkenas

John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2002

Making the Deal Real: How GE Capital Integrates Acquisitions
Ronald N. Ashkenas, Lawrence J. DeMonaco, ...

Harvard Business Review, 1998

Thousands of companies every year acquire other companies, or are acquired themselves. This event is usually painful and messy--and statistics show, it is frequently unsuccessful as well. Nearly half of all mergers fail. One company that has made a fine art of the acquisition integration process, however, is GE Capital, which has integrated ...

Why Good Projects Fail Anyway (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Nadim F. Matta, Ronald N. Ashkenas

Harvard Business Review, 2003

Big projects fail at an astonishing rate--more than half the time, by some estimates. It's not hard to understand why. Complicated long-term projects are customarily developed by a series of teams working along parallel tracks. If managers fail to anticipate everything that might fall through the cracks, those tracks will not converge successfully ...

Beyond the fads: how leaders drive change with results.: An article from: Human Resource Planning
Ronald N. Ashkenas

Human Resource Planning Society, 1994

This digital document is an article from Human Resource Planning, published by Human Resource Planning Society on June 1, 1994. The length of the article is 8307 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after ...

Integration Managers: Special Leaders for Special Times
Ronald N. Ashkenas, Suzanne C. Francis

Harvard Business Review, 2000

Although the integration of an acquired company with the parent organization is a delicate and complicated process, traditionally no one has ever been responsible for that process--for charting how the two companies will combine their operations, for seeing to it that the integration project meets its deadlines and performance targets, and for ...

Managers Can Avoid Wasting Time (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Ronald N. Ashkenas, Robert H. Schaffer

Harvard Business Review, 2002

Almost all managers escape some job-induced anxieties by retreating into time consuming activities that entail fewer threats than more challenging executive activities. Much of executives' job anxiety is produced by three tasks: streamlining daily routines, meeting demands to improve performance, and getting subordinates to achieve better results.