Why read Corporate Lifecycles?

Book cover of Corporate Lifecycles: How and Why Corporations Grow and Die and What to Do About It

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Likens corporations to living organisms and traces their developmental stages, discussing the normal, even healthy problems that lead to growth at these stages, as well as the unusual problems that can cause a company's death

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1 author picked Corporate Lifecycles as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Eric G. Flamholtz

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The framework presented in Corporate Lifecycles deals with the same core issue of Stages and Challenges of Organizational Growth as dealt with in my own book, but from a different perspective. The author is a former academic who has developed his own framework of corporate lifecycles and his methodology of organizations working through them. The book presents a different framework of corporate life cycles and emphasizes the managerial styles that are appropriate to reach stage of the corporate lifecycle. The author has seen and worked with a large number of companies that have employed his methods.…

From Eric's list on The best books about the stages and challenges of organizational growth: the perspective of participant-observers.