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The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
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The Sum of Parts Is Greater Than the Whole—at Least in Dismantling
Willis Johnson • Junk to Gold: From Salvage to the World’S Largest Online Auto Auction
Men would have to make sacrifices for the sake of the system: acknowledging that some present employees would not score high enough on his tests for the jobs they held, he had a simple solution—such employees would have to accept demotions and pay cuts. Unnecessary employees, he said, would have to be “eliminated.”
Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker
This paper proposes policies based on such principles: They are designed to maintain the
Holly Ensign-Barstow • From shareholder primacy to stakeholder capitalism
Look for Leaders Everywhere
Willis Johnson • Junk to Gold: From Salvage to the World’S Largest Online Auto Auction
In the late 1990s, a group of midlevel students at GE’s Crotonville leadership institute challenged him, saying that the “#1, #2, fix, close, or sell” strategy was hurting the company because executives were gaming the system.