Inc. Be Nimble

Read enough management books, listen to enough gurus, and you'd think there's no way any company is going to survive too far into the next millennium. The world's just moving so fast, they all say, that executives must ever be poised to leap through windows of opportunity that pop open at unpredictable moments. And they've got to pick the right windows and leap at precisely the right time. It sometimes seems as if enduring the next decade will demand that executives be embued with measurable levels of extrasensory perception.