Anthony Athos
Anthony Athos was born in
1934 in Detroit, USA. Anthony Athos began his career as an automotive factory
worker where, in an interview with TIME, he claimed scoring “the lowest
mechanical aptitude General Motors ever tested”, despite this he passed
his Certificate in Engineering from General Motors Institute.
Athos’ path towards his
true vocation began with Harvard Business School, where he received his
M.B.A. in 1958 and his D.B.A. in 1964. He remained at Harvard as
lecturer and professor, holding the post of Jesse Isidor Straus Chair of
Business Administration until June 1982. During his time at Harvard
Business School, Athos created a course called “Organizational
Behaviour”, a study into ethical and psychological issues within
organisations, which has now become a requirement for all business
administration majors.
Anthony Athos is perhaps best
known for his collaborations; both with fellow co-author of The Art of
Japanese Management, Richard Pascale, and the McKinsey & Company
consultants and authors Tom Peters and Robert Waterman. The four of them
brought new dimensions to business management thinking after an in depth
study into the qualities of “Excellence” within Japanese management.
Their revolutionary conclusions gave rise to the infamous
7S Framework:
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Strategy
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Structure
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Skills
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Staff
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Shared values
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Systems
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Style
The 7S model was first
published in the 1980 article “Structure is Not Organization” but was
later more thoroughly explored within the pages of The Art of Japanese
Management in 1981.
Anthony Athos died in late
2002 following a long illness.
References
http://www.mangurus.com/sections/gurus/?article_id=anthony_athos&selected_seq_num=4
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