Charles A. O'Reilly Knihy

"Drawing on an extensive research program and over a decade of helping companies to innovate, the authors present a set of practices to guide firms as they adopt ambidexterity. Top-down and bottom-up leaders are key to this process - a fact too often overlooked in the heated debate about innovation. But not in this case. Readers will come away with a new understanding of how to improve their existing businesses through efficiency, control, and incremental change, while also seizing new markets where flexibility, autonomy, and experimentation rule the day." -- from jacket

Claims that organizations must continuously innovate to thrive and offers suggestions for winning short- and long-term battles

Essays discuss management education, the success of Japanese corporations, corporate entrepreneurship, leadership, job enrichment, and organizations