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Profile and Personal Reflections

Sumantra Ghoshal is Chair of Strategic Leadership at London Business School. He was once named by The Economist as "Euro Guru." His main co-author is Prof. Christopher Bartlett of Harvard Business School, although he has published a number of books with others, including Nitin Nohria.

I first saw Ghoshal perform in public at a session run by the Careers Research Forum, in 1976. His description of the transformation of ABB, and its approach to the challenge of global leadership, ultimately provided much of the input to The Individualized Corporation. I later arranged for him to share his thoughts with a group of senior managers in National Power. One of his oft quoted and evocative concepts is what he calls "the smell of the place" - the organisational climate. Too many organisations, he argues, have created the oppressive, energy-sapping environment of downtown Calcutta in summer. Instead, he calls upon them to transform their organizations into the invigorating and inspiring equivalent of a Fontainbleau forest in spring!
  

Books by Sumantra Ghoshal

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Managing Across Borders
Sumantra Ghoshal

A guide to the management of companies in the global environment, this text is based on a study of a diverse group of multinational comapanies - including Procter and Gamble, Unilever, General Electric, Matsushita, ITT, Ericsson and NEC. The characteristics of these multinationals, and the process described by Christopher Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal, provides valuable lessons on how to develop the organizational structures, administrative processes, and management perspective necessary to success.

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The Individualized Corporation
Sumantra Ghoshal

Based on six years of research, this book reveals that in today's information intense, service based, competitive environment, leaders must recognize that human creativity and individual initiative are their most important asset.
       

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