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High-performance organizations consistently promote and teach the values of business excellence. They also measure and reward behaviors demonstrating those values and penalize behaviors that violate those values.
Edward Hess • Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Entrepreneurial Businesses
Dean Becker, the CEO of Adaptiv Learning Systems, has been researching and developing
Paul Jarvis • Company Of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business
Therefore, the theory suggests that companies ought to outsource activities that don’t influence the characteristics of a product or service that customers deem (or will deem) most critical. Specialists can better optimize those pieces of the value chain.
Clayton M. Christensen • Seeing What's Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change
Brianne Kimmel • The 6 builders who will thrive in the new world
The Good Jobs Strategy by Zeynep Ton,
Sarah Kessler • Gigged: The Gig Economy, the End of the Job and the Future of Work
As organizations succeed and grow, they become more formalized, more bureaucratic, more careful, more remote from customers, and slower to act. Diseconomies of scale begin to work, overshadowing the cost advantages of size. Overhead grows, decision-making slows. Direct feedback from customers is reduced, filtered, and often ignored. The demon of af
... See moreAdrian J. Slywotzky • The Profit Zone: How Strategic Business Design Will Lead You to Tomorrow's Profits
Many companies’ decision-making systems are designed to steer investments to initiatives that offer the most tangible and immediate returns, so companies often favor these and shortchange investments in initiatives that are crucial to their long-term strategies.
Clayton M. Christensen • How Will You Measure Your Life?
effort Ford’s team made to discover the “Tragedy of the Commons” dynamic. Everyone had seen themselves that the system encouraged them to pursue their own individual rewards, not the optimization of the whole.