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The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)
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Timothy Butler • Getting Unstuck: A Guide to Discovering Your Next Career Path
Management consultant
Timothy Butler • Getting Unstuck: A Guide to Discovering Your Next Career Path
When Jobs arrived back at Apple, it had a conventional structure for a company of its size and scope. It was divided into business units, each with its own P&L responsibilities. General managers ran the Macintosh products group, the information appliances division, and the server products division, among others. As is often the case with decent... See more
Joel M. Podolny • How Apple Is Organized for Innovation
Organizations typically structure themselves around function or business unit or geography—but successful growth companies optimize around the job.
Clay Christensen • Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
Indeed, professional services firms have grown so quickly in part because they are organized around projects, whereas their clients are organized around permanent jobs.
Roger L. Martin • A New Way to Think
... See moreThe typical large business 20 years hence will have fewer than half the levels of management of its counterpart today, and no more than a third the managers. In its structure, and in its management problems and concerns, it will bear little resemblance to the typical manufacturing company, circa 1950, which our textbooks still consider the norm… th
So they build up permanent departments staffed by fungible people in permanent slots.