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de Geus concludes that companies die prematurely because managers focus exclusively on economic activity, forgetting that an organization is a community of humans.
Vicki TenHaken • Lessons From Century Club Companies: Managing for Long-Term Success
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In 1962, Karou Ishikawa introduced “quality circles” and offered a course through JUSE. You might think of it as a kaizen continuous-improvement club. Workers whose jobs overlapped would work together to increase productivity flows between each other.
John Willis • Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future
inwhat ways can we structure things entirely differently to create more value in the context of our times, to be fast to market, to be fluid in mind-set, to be flexible in how we organize, deliver, and create value?
Nilofer Merchant • 11 Rules for Creating Value in the Social Era
hiring needs would expand to include a major role for less skilled professionals and more paraprofessionals, since the increased structuring of familiar engagement types would allow the firm to employ an increasing degree of…
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David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
it will probably be necessary to replace people who have invested many years developing and using the obsolete methods as well as to reorganize business units around new patterns of information flow.