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Andrew Clay Shafer says, “You are either a learning organization or you are losing to one that is.”
John Willis • Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future
Many factors play a role in bringing these goals into harmony, but one has a preeminent position: the ratio of junior, middle-level, and senior staff in the firm’s organization, referred to here as the firm’s leverage.
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
Real-life strategy, whether your own or a company’s, is an ongoing process of dealing with critical challenges and deciding what consequential actions to take.
Richard Rumelt • The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists
The Marshall Space Flight Center is run by one man, William R. Lucas. His style of management can be best described as feudalistic. In his ten-year tenure as Center Director, he established a personal empire built on the “good ol' boy” principle. The only criterion for career advancement is total loyalty to this man. The loyalty to country, NASA,
... See moreAllan J. McDonald • Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
The hidden power of Wal-Mart’s strategy came from a shift in perspective.
Richard Rumelt • Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters
Passage 4: Leading a Business
Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, James L. Noel, • The Leadership Pipeline
company builders, not financiers. We