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“Adopt the new philosophy. We are in a new economic age. Western management must awaken to the challenge, must learn their responsibilities, and take on leadership for change.”

The Technician’s boundary is determined by how much he can do himself. The Manager’s is defined by how many technicians he can supervise effectively or how many subordinate managers he can organize into a productive effort. The Entrepreneur’s boundary is a function of how many managers he can engage in pursuit of his vision.

Ela Bhatt, a classic Essentialist and truly visionary leader

The 1982 book In Search of Excellence, perhaps the best-selling management tome of all time, was written by two McKinsey partners.

In the 1980s and ’90s, my colleague Michael E. Porter broke important new ground in the field. His watershed came in firming up the Opportunities and Threats side of the analysis by bringing much-needed economic theory and empirical evidence to strategy’s underpinnings, providing a far more sophisticated way to assess a firm’s competitive environme

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. Once he presented this framework

1. Effective executives know where their time goes.

BILL GATES Cofounder, Microsoft; Cochair, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

The point is that underlying technologies change, but, after a point, technology market shares don’t change and so they’re highly predictable.