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When he landed in Japan decades later, he, more than any of the other Americans there, immediately grasped how crucial the special arrangement between Japanese companies and their employees was and why it led to superior quality. This line of thinking would become what I believe is the striking difference between the System of Profound Knowledge an

Lancelot frowns. ‘We’re not going to the Department?’ ‘Ah, no,’ says Marlowe. He clears his throat. ‘As I said, there have been one or two changes.’ ‘Such as?’ ‘Well, the whole sector’s been privatised. Musty old intelligence agencies broken up and sold to US private equity firms. That sort of thing. The services previously provided by the Departme

“How did you make all that money? What are the actual steps to get to billions of dollars?” Dick felt strongly that success in business is mainly about compensating your people—namely, designing a profit-sharing formula that marries their personal interests with those of the company.

Clarke could charm senior officers brilliantly, but he also got things done. His intelligence was allied to an ingenious imagination and a photographic memory. He did his best work at night, and in public places always sat with his back to a wall. You would not notice him in a crowd and he was never famous, yet Field Marshal Harold Alexander believ

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