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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782787303321

Autore

Hock Dee <1929->

Titolo

One from many [[electronic resource] ] : VISA and the rise of the chaordic organization / / Dee Hock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, CA, : Berrett-Koehler, c2005

ISBN

1-282-30049-0

9786612300493

1-60509-018-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (332 p.)

Disciplina

332.1/788/092

332.1788092

B

Soggetti

Businessmen - United States

Bank credit cards - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Old Monkey Mind; 2. A Lamb and the Lion of Life; 3. The Bloodied Sheep; 4. Retirement on the Job; 5. The Zoo; 6. The House of Cards; 7. Peeling the Onion; 8. The Impossible Imagined; 9. The Next to the Last Word; 10. The Corporation or the Cane; 11. And Then There Was One; 12. Quite Ordinary People; 13. The Victims of Success; 14. The Golden Links; 15. What's in a Name?; 16. Breaking the Mold; 17. The Successful Business Failure; 18. The Jeweled Bearing; 19. Out of Control and into Order; 20. The Emergent Phenomenon; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E

FG; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Revised edition of Hock's award-winning Birth of the Chaordic Age, updated throughout and featuring two new chapters The only first-person account of the rise of VISA, the world's largest business enterprise--in 2004, VISA's products were used by more than a billion people at 20 million locations in more than 150 countries Hock, VISA's founder, details the revolutionary ""chaordic"" organizational philosophy that was instrumental in VISA's successHock skillfully weaves together the story of VISA with his own remarkable life story



and elaborates the visionary philosophy that allowed VISA to t