Beyond Control: Managing Strategic Alignment Through Corporate Dialogue

Technology has made it possible to apply a new management philosophy. Leaders can let go and still be in control. They can involve key people without losing momentum. Companies can consistently measure organizational capability over time, and accurately benchmark 'soft' management areas, and a virtual CEO office really does work. Founded on three key insights (the operating arena; managing by pull and push; and the web-based dialogue centre), Beyond Control offers a revolutionary model for shifting the management focus from structured control to guided interaction. Using this approach companies can build a participative operating system that creates space for managers to excel, and avoids the unpleasant surprises that can lead to corporate scandals.

Fred Lachotzki has thirty years of experience as manager, president and non-executive director in Europe, the USA and the Far East. As a Professor of business policy he has been teaching strategy formulation and execution for many years. He has served or is serving on a number of boards in an executive as well as a non-executive capacity, both nationally as well as internationally.

Robert Noteboom is an independent strategy consultant, prior to which he was Associate Director Customer Value Management at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is also lecturer for e-Business Strategy at Nyenrode University, the Netherlands.

Both authors were involved in the founding of MeyerMonitor, a management consulting company dedicated to improving organizational effectiveness by helping global companies focus on their strategic agenda via a ’digital dialogue’. Since its founding in 1998 MeyerMonitor has applied the models and methodologies on which this book is based in various projects, serving many large multinational companies and generating a wealth of positive research data.