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Many companies have fallen, not because they ignored their customers or lacked superior management skills, but because business conditions shifted beneath them. In an environment of fluctuating markets, proliferating technologies, and changing political frontiers, the management challenge is to cope with breakpoints, or sudden shifts in the rules of the game. Paul Strebel provides a framework for dealing with radical business change.

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Breakpoints is partially a restatement of the traditional open systems theory of management, requiring managers to be cognizant and responsive to changing environmental forces. Where the author goes beyond the traditional theory is in his analysis of how to anticipate, exploit, and create breakpoints (sudden shifts in the rules of the game). Strebel (International Institute for Management Development, Switzerland) provides examples of firms that suffered as a result of their inability to react to breakpoints, as well as those that profited from being able to deal with change. This reviewer found the most meaningful chapters to be "Nurturing Continuous Change" and "Realigning the Corporation," because they relate to creating breakpoints as opposed to merely reacting to the emergence of discontinuities. Advanced undergraduate through professional collections. E. Garaventa; College of Staten Island, CUNY