Thriving on Chaos: Handbook for a Management RevolutionThe national bestseller that offers prescriptions for an economic world turned upside down. "Enough inspiration and information to feed American management for years."-- "Industry Week" A "New York Times" bestseller for eleven months."Enough inspiration and information to feed American managers for years." "--Industry Week" "A provocative and worthwhile book, loaded with sound advice on how to manage our institutions in a world in which the old ways do not seem to work." "--Across the Board" |
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Page 126
... Japan of Hewlett - Packard's Japanese subsidiary top $ 400 million , and grew at the rate of 27 percent per year from 1980 through 1984. Xerox , NCR , and Texas Instruments are also American high - tech giants winning on Japanese soil ...
... Japan of Hewlett - Packard's Japanese subsidiary top $ 400 million , and grew at the rate of 27 percent per year from 1980 through 1984. Xerox , NCR , and Texas Instruments are also American high - tech giants winning on Japanese soil ...
Page 127
... Japanese soft - drink market , also suffered a full decade of red ink . A small forest products company from the Northwest , without the resources of Coke et al . , is now spurting ahead in Japan . But it took four years of regular ...
... Japanese soft - drink market , also suffered a full decade of red ink . A small forest products company from the Northwest , without the resources of Coke et al . , is now spurting ahead in Japan . But it took four years of regular ...
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... Japanese ? Many react to the discussion of small starts with some variation of " But aren't the hyper - organized Japanese the epitome of ' big start ' / ' big project ' thinking ? " The answer is a resounding " no . " Jim Abegglen and ...
... Japanese ? Many react to the discussion of small starts with some variation of " But aren't the hyper - organized Japanese the epitome of ' big start ' / ' big project ' thinking ? " The answer is a resounding " no . " Jim Abegglen and ...
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Using the Prescriptions The Essentials of Proactive | 35 |
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