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Fundamentals of Level Three Leadership
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Fundamentals of Level Three Leadership

by James G.S. Clawson
June 2021
Beginner content levelBeginner
488 pages
10h 7m
English
Business Expert Press
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115. Organizational Life Cycles

Concept

Observers notice the development of humans through largely predictable life stages.83 We have outlined above the common phases that groups-toteams go through. Typically, product life cycles are viewed in terms of four phases: introduction, growth, maturation, and decline. This simple model is usually based on a calculus-oriented analysis of sales curves by identifying the inflection points.

Larry Greiner of HBS and USC business schools proposed a theory of phases in a typical organizational life cycle.84 Greiner’s insight was that each chapter in an organization’s growth produced answers to predictable questions, which in turn create a crisis that fomented movement or birth into the next chapter.

Greiner’s ...

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ISBN: 9781637420416