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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... firms are more prolific inventors than giant companies ; small firms exert significantly greater research and development effort than large ones ; small firms devise and develop inventions at substantially lower costs than large firms ...
... firms are more prolific inventors than giant companies ; small firms exert significantly greater research and development effort than large ones ; small firms devise and develop inventions at substantially lower costs than large firms ...
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... firms . Yet it also loses high - margin businesses - the cream - to the firms who are focused on high - margin targets or have achieved differentiation overall . The firm stuck in the middle also probably suffers from a blurred ...
... firms . Yet it also loses high - margin businesses - the cream - to the firms who are focused on high - margin targets or have achieved differentiation overall . The firm stuck in the middle also probably suffers from a blurred ...
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... firms that have been successful at adopting flexible manufacturing approaches : [ These firms ] are neither " visionaries " nor " ostriches . " People in the trade call them " evolutionists . " All of them have been nibbling away at com ...
... firms that have been successful at adopting flexible manufacturing approaches : [ These firms ] are neither " visionaries " nor " ostriches . " People in the trade call them " evolutionists . " All of them have been nibbling away at com ...
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Using the Prescriptions The Essentials of Proactive | 35 |
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