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Page 36
... Distribution ( electronic linkages , power to customers ) New Competitors FOREIGN • Developed ( e.g. Japan , Germany ) • Newly industrialized ( e.g. Korea ) • Rapidly industrializing ( e.g. Brazil ) DOMESTIC • Smaller firms resulting ...
... Distribution ( electronic linkages , power to customers ) New Competitors FOREIGN • Developed ( e.g. Japan , Germany ) • Newly industrialized ( e.g. Korea ) • Rapidly industrializing ( e.g. Brazil ) DOMESTIC • Smaller firms resulting ...
Page 41
... distributed as bonuses via profit - distributing bonus plans and quality- and productivity - based gain - sharing plans . For em- ployees , I suggest a big tax exemption , possibly with limits , for all income from profit - distribution ...
... distributed as bonuses via profit - distributing bonus plans and quality- and productivity - based gain - sharing plans . For em- ployees , I suggest a big tax exemption , possibly with limits , for all income from profit - distribution ...
Page 45
... distribution plans - NOW . " Thus the hastily sketched , " nice to do " promises have become a manifesto for radical organizational reform , a handbook for a manage- ment revolution . And the objective is not to be excellent , because ...
... distribution plans - NOW . " Thus the hastily sketched , " nice to do " promises have become a manifesto for radical organizational reform , a handbook for a manage- ment revolution . And the objective is not to be excellent , because ...
Page 51
... distribution network relations - are a commonplace necessity today . Rather than accepting or rejecting the call for boldness , we ( the group and a colleague and I ) decided to accept the 400 to 600 percent improve- ment as given for ...
... distribution network relations - are a commonplace necessity today . Rather than accepting or rejecting the call for boldness , we ( the group and a colleague and I ) decided to accept the 400 to 600 percent improve- ment as given for ...
Page 64
... distribution . Customers are inter- ested primarily in price and availability . The supplier with the best financial resources is likely to win . Market - creating strategies are much different . In these strategies , managers think ...
... distribution . Customers are inter- ested primarily in price and availability . The supplier with the best financial resources is likely to win . Market - creating strategies are much different . In these strategies , managers think ...
Contents
Achieving Flexibility by Empowering People | 339 |
Involve Everyone in Everything | 341 |
A New View of Leadership at All Levels | 467 |
Building Systems for a World Turned Upside Down | 579 |
Measure Whats Important | 581 |
Strategic Planning | 609 |
Set Conservative Goals | 619 |
Demand Total Integrity | 627 |
Second Thoughts | 635 |
Appendix | 655 |
Acknowledgments | 667 |
Notes | 671 |
Index | 685 |
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