Sublime

Theory X and Theory Y that Douglas McGregor developed in the 1960s when he was a professor at MIT. He stated that managers hold one of two sets of beliefs concerning employees: some think employees are inherently lazy and will avoid work whenever possible (Theory X); others think workers can be ambitious, self-motivated, and exercise self-control (

The company’s competitive advantage, it appears, was mostly Carnegie—his relentless pressure, his hounding to reduce costs, his instinct to steal any deal to keep his plants full, his insistence on always plowing back earnings into ever-bigger plants, the latest equipment, the best technologies.

Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard discusses in his book, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman.

Each quarter we try to study an admirable company and discuss it with our Operating Group managers and board members. We focus on high performance conglomerates that have demonstrated at least a decade of superior shareholder returns.

En 1912, Theodore Roosevelt se presentó a las elecciones en nombre de una plataforma antimonopolista que defendía la necesidad de controlar el poder empresarial y acabar con los monopolios.

Crane had privately ridiculed Charles’s management philosophy, which Charles trademarked under the name Market-Based Management, or MBM, and later distilled into his book The Science of Success. In essence, Charles believed that businesses’ corporate culture should replicate the competitiveness of the free market. Employees at almost every level of

Peter Drucker was the category king of management thinking.