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Bill was the greatest executive coach the world has ever seen. And not an executive coach in the traditional mold, working solely to maximize the performance of individuals; Bill coached teams.
Jonathan Rosenberg • Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Handbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell
Gordon Forward, CEO of Chapparal Steel, introduced a Townsendian “management by adultery” (a previously X-rated concept in which Forward treated his employees like adults and then got out of the way as they set productivity records);
Robert C. Townsend • Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits (J-B Warren Bennis Series)
There are the more legitimate booths, too. D&B Poker, a publisher of poker books, is advertising a new book by Chris Moorman, about his path to becoming “the most successful online poker player of all time.” A huge cardboard cutout of what I assume is Moorman himself stands next to a display of books.
Maria Konnikova • The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
Sociologists of business refer to these two extremes as “mechanistic organizations” and “organic organizations.”
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
Like most of the other “robber barons” or “captains of industry,” and like most dynamic individuals of any generation, James Jerome Hill displayed what Allan Nevins once called “a sort of lunar dualism.” Beyond dispute, his positive traits were quite remarkable: a quick intelligence and power of analysis, an incredible power of will and personality
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