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Becoming a Fortunate 500 Organization, Blanchard, O'Connor and other contributors promote the idea that management holds the key to corporate success, not through implementing top-down management strategies that focus on leadership style, productivity goals, and other effective means of operational support. This 6 page paper reflects the central perspectives presented in the work and underscores the link between management process and corporate outcomes. No additional sources cited.
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cohesiveness and direction as well as implementing effective change. In their work Managing by Values: Becoming a Fortunate 500 Organization, Blanchard, OConnor and other contributors promote the idea
that management holds the key to corporate success, not through implementing top-down management strategies that focus on leadership style, productivity goals, and other effective means of operational support.
Rather than providing a text book style management overview, Blanchard and OConnor provide the story of Tom Yeomans, a man who has experienced financial success but has also dealt with
his own emotional and spiritual voids. Through an interaction with a consultant who teaches Tom about the importance of values in the management process, Tom is able to bring
his company away from its failings, and find a correlation between his management process at work and his own life. At the same time, Tom also recognizes a direction
from which he can bring out the working components of his employee base and support the creative energies and effective interactions of his employees. This allegory provides a
scope for Blanchard and OConnors perspectives on leadership and the link between leadership and management processes and the success of many companies. It is a forum within which the
authors pursue an outlining of the overall problem in business management as well as the possible systems implemented for change and the most effective process for defining improvements.
The central story becomes a way of outlining what the authors describe as Fortunate 500 organizations, or those companies that are able to pursue their corporate successes while also focusing
on what are described ironically as CEOs: a commitment to customers, employees, owners and significant others. Management by values (MBV) is the process by which a company
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