Corporate Tides: The Inescapable Laws of Organizational Structure
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Corporate Tides: The Inescapable Laws of Organizational Structure
Robert Fritz
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The bestselling author of The Path of Least Resistance shows business men and women how to recognize the roots of their organization's failure, and build a healthy structure from the bottom up. Nationally acclaimed business consultant Robert Fritz outlines the basic laws of structure that determine a coporation's ultimate success or failure.

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2 out of 5 stars An article's worth of good ideas, stretched into a big book.......1999-02-12

Fritz makes some excellent points here about identifying and resolving structural conflicts in organizations. As a 30 or 40 page article, with numerous real-life examples, it would have been an excellent "primer". As a full length read, though, you walk away feeling somewhat cheated: *There's no discussion of how to actually diagnose structure conflicts (which you need to make use of these concepts). *No mention of how to address more complex structural conflicts, where the resolution would have to occur over time. *And the discussion of "structural tension" provided here is just one piece of what you need to design an effective organization. Two other concerns: (1) The book is decidedly skimpy on real company examples. (2) The numerous pitches for Fritz's consulting and training practice become downright grating. Good ideas here, but not well presented.

5 out of 5 stars Brilliant and revolutionary thinking.......1997-03-11

This is the textbook for building successful organizations and gaining control of unruly ones. A book for smart business people who will not be deceived by its apparent simplicity

5 out of 5 stars Fritz's work is foundational to any other business info.......1997-02-01

A quote from the late W Edwards Deming reads: "94% of all problems in business and organizations are problems with structure and system, only 6% are problems with people." Who in your organization is the authority on these subjects? Unfortunately, at the age of 93 W. Edwards Deming passed away on Dec. 20th of 1993. Robert Fritz is today's authority and leading thinker about structure and system which will be critical to understand for success during this next century. Why are school children told what to think before being taught how to think? K-12 and university, collge teachers must incorporate Fritz's work if our children are to have a real competitive chance at a decent future. Corporate Tides is written very clearly using step by step logic, Quick Reviews, Laws and Axioms which makes the information easy to digest and incorporate. No matter what your current occupation, the work of Robert Fritz will greatly enhacnce your creative ability by providing knowledge of how to develop dynamic, resolving structures that lead to sucess. Sincerely, Russell W. Kukla PS: Why are school children told WHAT to memorize before being taught HOW to memorize? The basic structure used for building a powerful memory ability is the same basic structure that Robert Fritz teaches. Structure is everwhere?
Taxable and Tax-Free Corporate Mergers, Acquisitions and Lbo's (American Casebook Series)
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    Taxable and Tax-Free Corporate Mergers, Acquisitions and Lbo's (American Casebook Series)
    Samuel C., Jr. Thompson
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    This book provides an introductory discussion of the basic tax factors involved followed by problems that require students to read closely the relevant sections of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and Treasury Regulations. Presents cases, rulings, notes, and problems that deal with esoteric issues. Contains many of the most significant cases and rulings on each major topic. In many instances, a summary problem is present at the end of a topic. Designed to give students an understanding of the basic aspects of each topic, and then to expose students to the many complexities of the topics.
    Basis studies are given red flags Revenue Procedure 81-70: past, present and future.: An article from: Tax Executive
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      Basis studies are given red flags Revenue Procedure 81-70: past, present and future.: An article from: Tax Executive
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      Title: Basis studies are given red flags Revenue Procedure 81-70: past, present and future.
      Author: Juliane Laura Keppler
      Publication: Tax Executive (Magazine/Journal)
      Date: July 1, 2004
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      Volume: 56 Issue: 4 Page: 306(3)

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      Certain mergers involving disregarded entities qualify as a reorganizations.(proposed IRS regulation): An article from: The Tax Adviser
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        Certain mergers involving disregarded entities qualify as a reorganizations.(proposed IRS regulation): An article from: The Tax Adviser
        Michael J. Goldberg
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        Release Date: 2005-07-29

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        Title: Certain mergers involving disregarded entities qualify as a reorganizations.(proposed IRS regulation)
        Author: Michael J. Goldberg
        Publication: The Tax Adviser (Magazine/Journal)
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          Deducting equity-based and deferred compensation after a reorg. or employee transfer. (reorganization): An article from: The Tax Adviser
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            Deducting equity-based and deferred compensation after a reorg. or employee transfer. (reorganization): An article from: The Tax Adviser
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            Release Date: 2005-07-28

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            From the supplier: Corporate reorganizations and employee transfers within controlled corporate groups may result in the problem of determining which corporate entity deducts equity-type or deferred compensation which was paid or vested after reorganization or employee transfer. IRC section 162 states that deductions for compensation for services are allowed to employers receiving such services. Sections 83(h) and 404(a)(5) provide specific rules for deductions and and their timing.

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            Title: Deducting equity-based and deferred compensation after a reorg. or employee transfer. (reorganization)
            Author: Will Sollee
            Publication: The Tax Adviser (Magazine/Journal)
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            Determining whether boot received in an acquisitive reorganization has dividend effect.: An article from: The Tax Adviser
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              Albert B. Ellentuck
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              From the supplier: Boot received in a Type A acquisitive reorganization will be treated as a dividend distribution if it is not considered a substantially disproportionate redemption of stock under IRC section 302(b)(2). If the cash payment is considered a distribution, it will reduce the gain recognized and will reduce basis in the stock of the acquiring company that accompanied the boot. If the boot is considered a substantially disproportionate redemption, it will have to be recognized.

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                From the supplier: Dividend and distribution tax treatment of boot received in an acquisition depends on whether the hypothetical redemption distribution is considered substantially disproportionate. In a type A reorganization, gain is recognized as the lesser of gain realized and boot received. If the distribution is calculated to be substantially disproportionate, the boot is recognized as gain. If the hypothetical redemption is not determined to be substantially disproportionate, dividend treatment will apply resulting in a tax-free reduction in basis.

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                Author: Albert B. Ellentuck
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                Distinctions between state law mergers and tax-free reorganizations.: An article from: The Tax Adviser
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                    Carl Zaiss
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                    One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization
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                    The worldwide success of VISA International, Dee Hock asserts, is due to its chaordic structure: it is owned by 22,000 member banks, which both compete with each other for 750 million customers and must cooperate by honoring one another's $125 trillion in transactions annually across borders and currencies. "One From Many takes the never-before-told story of how that structure came into being, and updates it for today. The book also highlights Dee Hock's evolution from humble beginnings to an iconoclast who challenged the nature of traditional organizations and management. It is the story of an entrepreneur who created a new concept of organization, brought it into being, and led it to amazing success in less than a decade. Hock is a corporate statesman who continues to carry these ideas around the world. Lyrical, humorous, powerfully thoughtful, "One From Many tells how one man blended chaos and order in the unexpected realm of business.

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                    5 out of 5 stars Innovative Capitalism.......2007-01-29

                    I read a lot, a solace and a life line out of the madness of today. I finished up my week-end with this most unusual gem, and it is with some emotion that I put it down and take the time to write this review.

                    In my lifetime, there have been fewer than four individuals able to understand me and manage me, and Dee Hock now joins that number, sight unseen. This is one of the *good guys*! If he and Bill Bradley and Jim Turner (Transpartisanship) can come together, we can remake the world.

                    The book benefits from a Foreword by Peter Senge, who notes that VISA as it emerged was a disruptive concept that threatened traditional powers. Senge also notes the importance of distinguishing between enabling technologies, such as the Internet, and what is enabled, such as democracy or equitable wealth creation and sharing. Finally, Senge observes that global complexity requires distributed democracy, to which I and the author would both be quick to add: "and moral capitalism."

                    The book is at root about the failure of all of our instititutions, and the need to find a third way between over-bearing centralization and anarchic decentralization. The author coins the word "chaordic" to deswcribe an even-handed and often-changing balance between the two.

                    Dee Hock is a philosopher-king, and I am reminded of "Voltaire's Bastards" and "Consilience" as I read his denouncement of the Western concept of separability and his own understanding that complexity is about never-ending and alway-changing relationships. In one example with the US Army, he explores how rules-based organizations waste 45-85% of the time and value of their employees. He specifically notes that human ingenuity is the ultimate resource and is abundant, but too often constrained if not crushed by schools, armies, corporations, and so on.

                    The author's morality shines forth as he describes non-monetary exchanges of value as the best possible foundation for what others call reciprocal altruism. At one point he observes that "leadership is not necessarily constructive, ethical, or open."

                    The entire book is about the creation of an organization in which participation is the primal element, agreement is dynamic, and trust and tolerance are the prevailing values. He states that organizational heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgotory is paper and procedure. Hell is rule & regulation.

                    He realizes early on that fraud and theft are major challenges, and that information is, as he quotes Gregory Bateson, "a difference that makes a difference."

                    I have a big note: this is a smart, ethical, practical, inspiring person--one of the good guys!

                    The author is deeply and empathetically aware of the discord between our industrial era understandings and perceptions, and the bio-cultural realities of the Earth and all its processes. He sees clearly what the "true cost" or natural capitalism literature seeks to teach.

                    A line jumps out, in which the author is lamenting that we have such a wealth of information, yet have drifted into "collective madness."

                    He clearly sees that our current form of predatory immoral "bandit" capitalism specializes at the socialization of cost and the capitalization of gain, which is fancy wording for looting the commons and stealing the profit. He also points out that we are putting the debt on to future generations.

                    He clearly describes the current form of corporations as inimical to the commons.

                    The book concludes strongly, lionizing the will to succeed when joined with the grace to compromise, placing VISA on a par with the Internet and LINUX as an organizational model for the future, and noting that growth comes from failure.

                    On page 284 he lists the following ten attributes from a living organization in Spain that represents the best of the chaordic model:

                    01 Open membership
                    02 Democratic organization
                    03 Worker sovereignty
                    04 Instrumental subordinate nature of capital
                    05 Participation in management
                    06 Wage solidarity
                    07 Cooperating between cooperatives
                    08 Social transformation
                    09 Universal nature
                    10 Education (he might have added, life-long, unconstrained, free of the prison-rote we now suffer, and teaching sharing as well as learning)

                    He ends with the story of his recall from his wanderings in the wilderness, to explore examples, models, the intellectual foundation, and organizations by which we might save the Planet and our species, to include the necessary means of mind-crafting for the future.

                    I actually had goose-bumps as I put this book down. I felt, very strongly, that I had been within the aura of a great leader, a gentle person, a world-class humanitarian, a capitalist Dalai Lama if you will (don't laugh--this author strikes me as quite amazingly special).

                    I cannot say enough about this book. It joins the very short list of books I have posted on moral leadership through open source intelligence, and it places Dee Hock up there with Buckminster Fuller, Margaret Wheatley, Robert Buckman, and a tiny handful of Senge's and Druckers.

                    I hope I meet him one day. Right now, he joins Bill Bradley as one of just two people I'd be willing to leave my mink-lined bunker to follow into battle. This book and this author's mind and clarity of communication have simply blown me away.

                    See the two images I have loaded here to illustrate concepts that I share with this author. You can see other images at Earth Intelligence Network, where you can also use the Amazon Base Page to get access to my 30 lists of books for each of the ten threats, twelve policies, and eight challengers. I am also creating Amazon discussion pages for each of these.

                    5 out of 5 stars Management Consultant.......2006-05-03

                    Dee Hock, Founder and CEO Emeritus of Visa, not only recalls the intriguing events that led to the creation of Visa, but shares the roots of his personal journey that took him to that place and time. This book chronicles Hock's exploration of the nature of organizations that go well beyond anything that had been done to that point in time. As a byproduct, he helped save a credit card industry that was bleeding money across a sea of large and small financial institutions.

                    5 out of 5 stars Readable and relevant.......2005-10-17

                    Dee Hock is not only a great story teller but also a "future teller". The history of his incredible involvement with the rise of VISA only sets the stage for a fascinating look at the future as it "might become and ought to be". Very much worth the read for anyone vested with leadership and/or innovation in any organization (which is everyone).

                    The one story not told is how the book was made to come about. After reading of Dee Hocks life experience it seems that it is simply "how it ought to be".
                    Credit Card Industry: A History (Twayne's Evolution of Modern Business Series)
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                        ASIN: B000IYW6K0
                        Release Date: 2006-09-21

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                        This digital document is an article from BOAT/U.S. Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2006. The length of the article is 2215 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                        Title: Histories ring hollow.(CONSUMER PROTECTION BUREAU)
                        Author: Caroline Ajootian
                        Publication: BOAT/U.S. Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
                        Date: September 1, 2006
                        Publisher: Thomson Gale
                        Volume: 11 Issue: 5 Page: 36(2)

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                        Making POS debit happen in the marketplace: a case in history. (point-of-sale debit cards): An article from: Bank Marketing
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                          Making POS debit happen in the marketplace: a case in history. (point-of-sale debit cards): An article from: Bank Marketing
                          James Desrosier
                          Manufacturer: Bank Marketing Assn.
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                          Binding: Digital

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                          ASIN: B00092LC4C
                          Release Date: 2005-07-28

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                          This digital document is an article from Bank Marketing, published by Bank Marketing Assn. on July 1, 1994. The length of the article is 3542 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

                          From the supplier: Point-of-sale (POS) debit cards, otherwise known as supercharged ATM cards, have become quite popular that the total POS debt transactions for a particular month reached 56 million. However, pundits are predicting that this figure is nothing compared to the volume of transactions in the near future. According to 'POS Market Data Book,' on-line debit transactions will multiply fifteenfold to a whopping 450 million by the year 2000. Taking advantage of this, MasterCard conducted a major pilot marketing program for the Maestro on-line debit card of its US Debit Services Division. The preliminary marketing effort resulted in increased Maestro transaction in such participating businesses as Purity, BayBank and Yankee 24. The success of the pilot study demonstrates the importance of a consistent and well-executed marketing in gaining success in the debit industry.

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                          Title: Making POS debit happen in the marketplace: a case in history. (point-of-sale debit cards)
                          Author: James Desrosier
                          Publication: Bank Marketing (Magazine/Journal)
                          Date: July 1, 1994
                          Publisher: Bank Marketing Assn.
                          Volume: v26 Issue: n7 Page: p93(6)

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                          Sioux Falls, Citibank, and CRA: do US credit card banks deserve their "outstanding" community reinvestment performance evaluations?(Community Reinvestment ... An article from: Journal of Economic Issues
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                            Sioux Falls, Citibank, and CRA: do US credit card banks deserve their "outstanding" community reinvestment performance evaluations?(Community Reinvestment ... An article from: Journal of Economic Issues
                            Reynold F. Nesiba , and Nathan Golz
                            Manufacturer: Association for Evolutionary Economics
                            ProductGroup: Book
                            Binding: Digital
                            ASIN: B0009FAFYC
                            Release Date: 2005-07-30

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                            This digital document is an article from Journal of Economic Issues, published by Association for Evolutionary Economics on June 1, 2002. The length of the article is 3973 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                            Title: Sioux Falls, Citibank, and CRA: do US credit card banks deserve their "outstanding" community reinvestment performance evaluations?(Community Reinvestment Act)(Statistical Data Included)
                            Author: Reynold F. Nesiba
                            Publication: Journal of Economic Issues (Refereed)
                            Date: June 1, 2002
                            Publisher: Association for Evolutionary Economics
                            Volume: 36 Issue: 2 Page: 485(9)

                            Article Type: Statistical Data Included

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                            Harvey Golub: Recharging American Express
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                              Harvey Golub: Recharging American Express
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                              Manufacturer: Harvard Business School Pub
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                              Binding: Unknown Binding
                              ASIN: B0006RX9WI

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