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In finding his way, Grove had followed the trail of a legendary, Vienna-born gadfly, the first great “modern” business management thinker: Peter Drucker.

Fred Kofman, a former MIT professor and author of Conscious Business.

Good management starts by defining what outputs someone needs to produce.

need for senior talent would remain high, the group could accommodate a broader array of talents since it would have the ability to empower an individual by supplementing his or her…

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Some Advice / Thoughts

1. Start with rituals, behaviors, and interactions before worrying about what you try to operationalize and codify. Can the right people interact at the right times, in the right ways, supported by the right information?




2. Be very selective about what you centralize and attempt to make consistent. At the same time, accept that somet

Then-CEO Eric Schmidt shared a simple but extremely effective framework to resolve these tensions: 70-20-10. Google would devote 70 percent of its resources to the core business, 20 percent to emerging products, and 10 percent to research and development for future products.

Even though they have not taken centuries to build, most programming systems reflect conceptual disunity far worse than that of cathedrals. Usually this arises not from a serial succession of master designers, but from the separation of design into many tasks done by many men. I will contend that conceptual integrity is the most important considera

Information technology tools such as internal social networks and knowledge repositories can play a critical role in steering clear of unnecessary structures, especially when companies grow larger and people are spread throughout different locations.