The Secret Life of Corporations: Understanding the True Nature of Business

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Summary: How developing human capital is the preeminent strategy
Review: The Secret Life Of Corporations: Understanding The True Nature Of Business by management consultant, psychologist, lecturer, and organizational development expert Mark Sirkin is a management primer written specifically for the business management community of the 21st century. The focus is on showing just how developing human capital is the preeminent strategy for corporate survival and sustainable profit margins in an era of increasingly competitive and unprecedented changes by commercially and technologically. In The Secret Life Of Corporations, Sirkin applies concepts drawn from evolutionary psychology, biology, and organizational design in innovative ways to reveal just how organizations are in fact "living systems" while underscoring that human capital is more critical than financial capital. Also addressed are the issues of board governance, family businesses, information technology, self-improvement at work, emerging trends at work, and the future of business. If you are responsible for corporate management and development, then Mark Sirkin's The Secret Life Of Corporations highly recommended for careful and considered reading.