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Organizational Management and In Search of Excellence by Peters and Waterman

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to the preparation of organizational managers than merely coating the service; rather, there are myriad considerations with regard to the various components necessary to comprise a successful operation. "At  a gut level, all of us know that much more goes into the process of keeping a large organization vital and responsive than the policy statements, new strategies, plans, budges,  and organization charts can possibly depict. But all too often we behave as though we dont know it" (Peters et al, 1988, p. 3). Inasmuch as organizational leaders  are often construed as symbols "for representing personal causation of social events" (Pfeffer, 1978, p. PG), it can readily be argued that the perception of organizational leadership has shifted significantly  from what is used to be. The shape of contemporary business leadership has taken on a vastly divergent appeal, in that while there still exists the inherent requirement of  maintaining the group and orchestrating a task or activity, the entire dimension has been modified as a means by which to address the issues of power. "In leadership, influence  rights are voluntarily conferred. Power does not require goal compatibility--merely dependence--but leadership implies some congruence between the objectives of the leader and the led. These distinctions depend on  the ability to distinguish voluntary from involuntary compliance and to assess goal compatibility" (Pfeffer, 1978, p. PG). Peters and Waterman (1988) acknowledge  that the workplace is not the same as it was just ten years ago, and it will not be the same ten years from now. In the ongoing quest  to make the workplace a more effective environment, it has also become an ever-changing one in relation to its modifying climate. The presumption has long been put forth that