Knowledge-Driven Corporation

A volume in LMX Leadership: The SeriesSeries Editor George B. Graen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Retired)This book is about preparing our thinking feeling and acting for the rapidly expanding knowledgeera. We discuss the following queries in the chapters. We begin with a discussion of whatan appropriate knowledge-driven corporation (KDC) is. Next we explore a number of designissues about this transformed charter company and present two examples of new knowledgedrivencorporations that are described in strategic and tactical terms. At this point the questionsof management and leadership selections and development for the KDC are discussed in thenext two chapters. These are followed by two chapters discussing the political side of humanKDC in terms of fit or no fit. Following this discussion of our frail interpersonal habitsproject teams' research shows how an orderly process of team leadership development unfoldsover the project life cycle. Finally the last chapter discusses where we are concerning emergent response leadership in building realknowledge-driven corporations. This book is dedicated to survival of the best of the best of our corporations in the knowledge erathrough complex creative destruction.