Fit to Compete

Preface

Every organization faces challenges in executing its strategy. Great companies know how to work through them.

Organizational agility is on everybody’s mind these days. But you are much more likely to read about it than to see it. An astonishing number of businesses that try to respond to new circumstances with a new strategy find themselves stuck in neutral. If that sounds familiar, you are the audience I have in mind.

Corning’s Electronic Products Division (EPD) was one of those stuck organizations. I was working for the company years ago, following my doctoral studies, as an internal management researcher and consultant and had founded Corning’s Organizational Research and Development Department, itself an innovation at the time. Tom ...