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... See moreThe typical large business 20 years hence will have fewer than half the levels of management of its counterpart today, and no more than a third the managers. In its structure, and in its management problems and concerns, it will bear little resemblance to the typical manufacturing company, circa 1950, which our textbooks still consider the norm… th
smart companies aggressively shift their offerings from high physical content to high knowledge content.
Adrian J. Slywotzky • The Profit Zone: How Strategic Business Design Will Lead You to Tomorrow's Profits
Deborah Gruenfeld,
Sheryl Sandberg • Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

Efficiency practices, with their relatively high fixed cost structure and many juniors, would need to take a more studied, planned approach to growth in order to capture the volume necessary to offset lower margins. The needs for both management and administration would increase, in order to devise optimum ways of dealing with familiar engagement t
... See moreDavid H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
the most successful people perceive their personalities and skills as fluid and are able to represent themselves differently and adaptively.