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Joel M. Podolny • How Apple Is Organized for Innovation
like any good crisis point it forces Michael to confront his earlier actions.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
“My job is to work with sort of the Top 100 people,” he said. “That doesn’t mean they’re all vice presidents. Some of them are just key individual contributors. So when a good idea comes…part of my job is to move it around [and]…get ideas moving among that group of 100 people.” Privately Jobs has spoken even more strongly about the Top 100’s import
... See moreAdam Lashinsky • Inside Apple -- From Steve Jobs down to the janitor: How America’s most successful—and most secretive—big company really works.
The only method we have ever seen used to confirm claims that the open plan improves productivity is proof by repeated assertion.
Lister Tim • Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
course, instead of a boss doing the appraisal, they put in place peer-based systems: At
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
Misperception 1: There is no structure, no management, no leadership
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
Now, did we dominate the mid-range microcomputer business? That’s for us to argue in the years to come, but over the next quarter we’ll know whether we’ve won ten new designs or not.
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
‘You’re our longest-serving contributor,’ said Carleton, flinching at the bang. ‘Our most admired. Indeed I should say our most popular.’ I’m beginning to speak like him, he thought: Thomas Hart is catching, that’s the trouble. ‘I’ve often heard it said that it’s a consolation – that’s the general feeling, as I said to the board – to wake on Thursd
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