Corporate Instinct: Building a Knowing Enterprise for the 21st
Century
by Thomas M. Koulopoulos, Wayne Toms and Richard Spinello (Contributor)
Table of Contents
Part 1: Awakening Corporate Instinct
Corporate Instinct and the Knowing Enterprise
Hooking into the Knowledge Chain
Learning to Forget
The Eight Attitudes of Instinct
Achieving Dynamic Stability
Part 2: Managing Corporate Instinct
The Velocity of Knowledge
The Anatomy of Corporate Instinct
Technology Tools of Instinct
Part 3: Living With Corporate Instinct
The Economics of Instinct
Leadership in the Knowing Enterprise
The Imperative to Create Instinct
Appendixes
Evaluating Your Corporate Instinct
Where to Now?
The Language of Corporate Instinct
Book Description
Written by one of the nation's best-known technology consultants, this book presents a
set of management and technology tools to help manage an organization's shared knowledge
and cultivate its intellectual assets. Drawing on interviews with 350 companies from
across the economic spectrum, Corporate Instinct offers a detailed road map for developing
your own corporate instinct and a comprehensive context for understanding how and why this
sixth sense offers enduring competitive advantage. Filled with insights on revamping a
corporation's culture, structure and core competencies for the 21st century, this book
offers a blueprint for a business which focuses on innovation, not administration.
Reviews
Geoffrey James, Author, Success Secrets from Silicon
Valley, Business Wisdom of the Electronic Elite
Advance praise for Corporate Instinct
"Koulopoulos has utilized his wide experience as an entrepreneur and top
management advisor to add a completely new perspective on the phenomenon of corporate
success. The idea of corporate instinct is a strong antidote to the 'tried and true'
management concepts that simply don't work any longer."
From the Publisher
Praise for Corporate Instinct: "Koulopoulos has utilized his wide experience as
an entrepreneur and top management advisor to add a completely new perspective on the
phenomenon of corporate success. The idea of corporate instinct is a strong antidote to
the 'tried and true' management concepts that simply don't work any longer." - Geoffrey
James, Author, Success Secrets from Silicon Valley, Business Wisdom of the
Electronic Elite
"Corporate Instinct provides a profound contribution to better understanding the
evolution of businesses as they attempt to meet the competitive challenges in today's
marketplace. This is a must-read for all executives who want to better understand the
inextricable linkage between organizational success and the effectiveness of the people
within the organization, and to allow them to successfully lead their organizations into
the future." - Edward G. Lewis, Former Assistant Secretary for
Information Resources Management in the Bush Administration
"The book moves fast; and, at the conclusion, the reader feels that a tour de
force briefing has just occurred, that Koulopoulos has something valuable to say which
must be shared with others." - Tom Brown, Publisher of the
MANAGEMENT GENERAL online (www.mgeneral.com) newsletter.
The publisher , March 27, 1998
"Managing in these times of chaos increasingly calls for more than just new
management tools. Corporate Instinct provides the kind of new management approaches and
attitudes that are needed to deal with the technology-transformed organization of the next
century. More than new ideas, it's a new frame of reference." Keith T.
Davidson, Ph.D., EDPP President Xplor International
The publisher , March 27, 1998
"Corporate Instinct provides an excellent view of the entire cycle of knowledge
management within dynamic organizations. Koulopoulos recognizes that capture and
maintenance of corporate knowledge within a group memory must be achieved before effective
knowledge transfer can occur." Peter Friedland President and CEO,
Intraspect Software"
