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“We will no longer be all things to all people,” I said. “We will specialize. We will offer only midsize hotels of exceptional quality, hotels that wherever located will be
Isadore Sharp • Four Seasons
How to Build a Million-Dollar One-Person Business | Elaine Pofeldt | Glasp Talk #32
read.glasp.coThe companies I was looking for all operated on what you might call human scale, that is, a size at which it’s still possible for an individual to be acquainted with everyone else in the organization, still possible for the CEO to meet with new hires, still possible for employees to feel closely connected to the rest of the company.
Bo Burlingham • Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, 10th-Anniversary Edition
Golden Rule became the core of what we would later call our culture,
Isadore Sharp • Four Seasons
Shell’s famous study of corporate longevity (see Chapter 2), which de Geus directed, found that the average life expectancy of Fortune 500 firms was less than forty years, but the study also found some twenty companies around the world which had survived two centuries or longer. Looking for common features that transcended differences in history, n
... See morePeter M. Senge • The Fifth Discipline
Teal Organizations, in contrast, keep staff functions to an absolute bare minimum.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
