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Larry Ansin, former CEO of the highly successful Joan Fabrics Corporation of Lowell, Massachusetts, told us about his decision to focus: If you’re diversified into five businesses,26 as we once were, the businesses that only make up 3% of your sales are going to take 20% of your time, energy, and attention. It’s just not worth it. Focus. Do what
... See moreJim Collins • Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0
Picture it. One Ford employee making ten cars a year for thirty-five years while his Toyota counterpart goes from four to sixty. Toyota’s supplier network? A typical GM car factory used eight hundred suppliers. Toyota? Just 125 … with half the in-house work. This dispels the Western myth of needing more to do more: Toyota was doing more with less.
... See moreJohn 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
Are You There, Aryeh? It’s Me, Shari…
hindsight, I would have started with our leadership team of five.
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
“Create constancy of purpose toward improvement of product and service, with the aim to become competitive and to stay in business, and to provide jobs.”
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
Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, 10th-Anniversary Edition
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While Sir Richard Branson advised executives to focus on employees first, customers second, and investors third, Harrison reversed the priorities: investors came first. For him the game was capitalism, pure and simple. You either played it or you didn’t.