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Loveman quipped that there are three ways to get fired from his company: theft, sexual harassment, and running an experiment without a control group.
Stefan H. Thomke • Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments
The strong tendency of employees to rationalize bad conduct in order to get rewards requires many antidotes in addition to the good cash control promoted by Patterson.
Charles T. Munger • Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Michael Porter, a Harvard Business School professor who is considered the founder of modern corporate strategy, had seized Hinton’s attention with a 2011 essay whose rather modest critique of the prevailing approach to business created a stir in a world not used to such friendly
Anand Giridharadas • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
theoretical work, for which the end goal is truth.
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
This chapter is adapted from A.G. Lafley, Roger L. Martin, Jan W. Rivkin, and Nicolaj Siggelkow, “Bringing Science to the Art of Strategy,” Harvard Business Review, September–October 2012.
Roger L. Martin • A New Way to Think
who makes those assets more productive.”7
Sunil Gupta • Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining Your Business
Managers in departments of fifty people or more are required to “top-grade” their subordinates along a curve and must dismiss the least effective performers.
Brad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Marketers must quantify the value of products, customers, and distribution channels––all under various pricing and promotional scenarios.