Sublime

The bottom line is that small changes in the communication structure can affect decisions.

It seems to Zak and me that for most companies to thrive over the long-term, one constituency must be looked after before all others and, contrary to what some on Wall Street or in Westminster may suggest, that constituency is the customer.

For a long time in the business world, the drive to become bigger was motivated by the pursuit of supply-side economies of scale[221]. As centuries of business have taught us, the bigger you are, the lower your marginal cost. Lowering unit costs is what economies of scale were all about. And yet economies of scale reach their limits soon enough. Co

When time and resources are limited, resist efforts to correct and optimize designs beyond the critical 20 percent, as such efforts yield diminishing returns. Generally,

Thus the redistribution of power from the inside to the outside of organizations and the rise of the multitude are changing the game. Openness in the Entrepreneurial Age is quite different from globalization in the Dark Ages of financialization. The global world of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s was dominated by giant, bureaucratic corporations. As it

In light of the corporate scandals of the last decade, some would add that the most obvious shadow of the modern organization is individual and collective greed.

To become a value creator is not a business model, but a way of life.

“The most urgent decisions are rarely the most important ones.”