Samuel Doria Medina's Management Trajectory: A Clue to the Mintzberg-Ansoff-Goold Polemic
An outstanding feature of this book is that it offers a deep insight into the working of a strategy direction-setting by a visionary CEO supported by the implementational process of the corporate centre staff. This insight sheds light on the centre’s value-creation process, which includes core competence, sense-making, parenting roles, and strategic management styles as well as the organisational and implementational design for both divisional and multi-business corporations. Multiple survey interviews with the CEO and his staff as well as industry specialists and experts from multiple fields and policy incumbents, a qustionnaire survey with the stake holding members, a bibliographical survey, and a document search were carried out with a view to deductive/inductive inferences and hypothesis/construct–creation/verification purposes. The analysis here demonstrates, first, that Bowlby’s attachment theory, sense-making, and conviction narrative clarify the personality traits underpinning managerial stability; and, second, that Max Joseph’s trading asset logic can nicely combine with core competence theory as a binding logic of multi-business practices. It empirically verifies the dictum that excellent though daring strategy must be grounded in solid administrative and financial implementational realities. The book provides a framework for future organisational design including management control tools as it creates a new understanding of business and corporate strategies.
Kimio Kase, Professor Emeritus and ex president of International University of Japan, taught at IESE Bsuiness School, MpD at la Universidad Católica Boliviana,
Rikkyo University, International Christian University, Beijing Normal University, Yonsei University, etc. Kimio Kase published books on management, strategy, sport management, etc., and wrote nearly fifty business cases, some of which are on sale from Harvard Business Publication. He studied at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (BA), ICADE Business School (Licenciado en CCEE), IESE Business School (MBA) and Manchester University (DBA). His work experience include management consultancy (Price Waterhouse) and industrial marketing, project evaluation, etc., at a large corporation and a multilateral bank.
Professor Flavio Escóbar and Mr Armando Gumucio have been closely collaborating with Samuel Doria Medina as primary executives
