Jerry Porras


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School:	BSEE from Texas Western College, MBA from Cornell University and PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles
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Porras is a co-author of the international business bestseller “Build to Last”.
Director of the Leading and Managing Change Executive Program
Lane Professor of Organizational Behavior and Change, Emeritus
Jerry Porras was famous for his groundbreaking theories and analysis of strategy and change.
He is also a winner of numerous awards.
He is a co developer of the Stream Analysis Software package
He has served on the editorial boards of six journals and has authored two books and over 40 scholarly articles.
He is the University's Faculty Athletic Representative to the Pacific-10 Conference and the National Collegiate Athletic Association and was President of the Pacific-10 Conference Council
Porras has taught courses in leadership, interpersonal dynamics, and organizational development and change in the MBA and executive programs.

Stream Analysis: A Powerful New Way to Diagnose and Manage Organizational Change This book presents a conceptual framework of reorganizations that will help managers and change-practitioners to better understand organizations. Drawing on that framework, the book describes an approach for diagnosing failings in organizational functioning and for planning a comprehensive set of actions needed to change the organization into a more effective system.

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies This book is about enduring, great organizations known as visionary companies that have been successful through multiple product life cycles and several generations of leadership. This book present the results of a six-year research project and covers the question What does it take to create an enduring, great company.

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