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(Ep.63) The Acquirers Podcast: Andrew Wilkinson – Berkshire.com, How Tiny Is Building The Berkshire Of The Internet
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Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
Wilke’s secret to success? A culture of operational excellence—built on lean manufacturing, statistical process control, the theory of constraints, and purpose-built software.‡ Lean manufacturing, of course, came from the Toyota Way, the fusion of Deming’s and Japan’s “East meets West” ideas and practices. Statistical process control, too, comes
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Fail How To (Not) Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam Or: Why There Is No Audience For What We Make And Why That Truth Will Set Us Free
By leveraging its high-cost seniors with low-cost juniors, the professional firm can lower its effective hourly rate and thus reduce its cost to clients while simultaneously generating additional profit for the partners.
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
Before Wilke joined Amazon, the general managers of the fulfillment centers often improvised their strategies, talking on the telephone each morning and gauging which facility was fully operational or had excess capacity, then passing off orders to one another based on those snap judgments. Wilke’s algorithms seamlessly matched demand to the
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Will is the dynamic of change everywhere and at all levels.