Sublime

The “professional employee,” Peter Drucker wrote, “needs rigorous performance standards and high goals. . . . But how he does his work should always be his responsibility and his decision.”

The problem, McLean decided, was the maritime mindset: Pan-Atlantic’s staff, experienced in the slow-moving ways of the maritime industry, did not know how to sell to an industrial traffic manager who cared not about ships, but about getting freight to the customer on schedule at low cost. McLean brought in a team of aggressive young trucking execu

stupid. People love change when they know it is a good thing.

[T]heir paired counterparts should stress the quality of [the] work.

Steve Jobs explain Management by Values

Key takeaways:

• Finding great people is the most important lesson in business due to the large variance in quality.

• Great people are often missionaries, not mercenaries.

• Individual contributors can be phenomenal even when management and culture is poor.

• Passion for the company can be a motivating factor for

six principles, day in and day out, in every part of your organization: The Six Principles of Business Success 1. Vivid vision 2. Best people 3. Robust communication 4. Sense of urgency 5. Disciplined execution 6. Extreme customer focus

14 Points for Management as presented on the Deming Institute website:7 1. 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. 2. Adopt the new philosophy. We are in a new economic age. Western management must awaken to the challenge, must learn thei

the use of power need not become the abuse of power.