Oil Change: Perspectives on Corporate Transformation

by Art Kleiner, George Roth, Ann Thomas

Oil Perspectives on Corporate Transformation is the second book in the new Oxford series The Learning History Library . Each book gets inside a company at a crucial time of change, offering a unique opportunity to see innovation from the inside out. Oil Perspectives on Corporate
Transformation is the story of major corporate change undertaken by OilCo, a pseudonym for a major international oil company, just after a time of layoffs and cutbacks. Key people within the company tell the story, using a technique developed at MIT's Center for Organizational Learning. One hundred
and fifty employees were interviewed at all levels of the company, from hourly workers to the executive council. They worked in all primary OilCo exploration and production, refining and retail, chemical and oil consulting. During this time, all the firms values came into question,
including its business practices, corporate governance structure, team management, and leadership style. Oil Perspectives on Corporate Transformation gives students an inside look at what OilCo learned collectively.

Hardcover

First published April 13, 2000

Reviews

[Maria · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was a "learning history" so how good can it really be. Pretty boring. It didn't help that I was reading it online so all of the formatting was lost. It was meant to be a discussion type of book so reading it alone didn't help either.