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The flexibility-through-empowered-people prescriptions, which deal with high
involvement, minimal hierarchy, and increased rewards based upon new
performance parameters (quality, responsiveness), are wholly consistent with the
more ...
The flexibility-through-empowered-people prescriptions, which deal with high
involvement, minimal hierarchy, and increased rewards based upon new
performance parameters (quality, responsiveness), are wholly consistent with the
more ...
Page 50
In each of the five major business areas, there were hundreds of candidates for
the final list of five or ten prescriptions. As a result, though we have forty-five
specific "suggestions" (prescriptions), each one, even at this level of dis-
aggregation, ...
In each of the five major business areas, there were hundreds of candidates for
the final list of five or ten prescriptions. As a result, though we have forty-five
specific "suggestions" (prescriptions), each one, even at this level of dis-
aggregation, ...
Page 51
... book, in an effort to deal with real-world implementation. There are two major
problems with such an approach — issues of attitude and issues of
connectedness. Attitude. The book — each part, each prescription — is about
attitude: Figure 2: ...
... book, in an effort to deal with real-world implementation. There are two major
problems with such an approach — issues of attitude and issues of
connectedness. Attitude. The book — each part, each prescription — is about
attitude: Figure 2: ...
Page 53
... values, strategy development radically bottom-up, all staff functions support the
line rather than vice 53 versa Sector Forest Products Semiconductors Computers
Packaged Goods Farming Service Retailing USING THE PRESCRIPTIONS /
... values, strategy development radically bottom-up, all staff functions support the
line rather than vice 53 versa Sector Forest Products Semiconductors Computers
Packaged Goods Farming Service Retailing USING THE PRESCRIPTIONS /
Page 54
There is, then, a feel to the prescriptions taken as a whole — what they add up to
in terms of the way we think about people, customers, relationships (adversarial
versus cooperative) — that requires a more or less front-to-back reading. Unless
...
There is, then, a feel to the prescriptions taken as a whole — what they add up to
in terms of the way we think about people, customers, relationships (adversarial
versus cooperative) — that requires a more or less front-to-back reading. Unless
...
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Contents
| 43 | |
| 57 | |
Achieving Flexibility by Empowering People | 339 |
Involve Everyone in Everything | 357 |
ListenCelebrateRecognize | 379 |
Provide Incentive Pay for Everyone | 399 |
SimplifyReduce Structure | 441 |
Eliminate Bureaucratic Rules and Humiliating | 453 |
Building Systems for a World Turned Upside Down | 579 |
Measure Whats Important | 583 |
Revamp the Chief Control Tools | 597 |
Decentralize Information Authority and Strategic Planning | 609 |
Set Conservative Goals | 619 |
Demand Total Integrity | 627 |
Second Thoughts | 635 |
Appendix | 655 |
A New View of Leadership at All Level | 467 |
Pay Attention More Listening | 535 |
Bureaucracy | 554 |
Change | 561 |
Acknowledgments | 667 |
Notes | 671 |
Index | 685 |
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| Title | Thriving on Chaos: Handbook for a Management Revolution Volume 7184 of Perennial library |
| Author | Tom Peters |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Harper Collins, 1988 |
| ISBN | 0060971843, 9780060971847 |
| Length | 736 pages |
| Subjects | › Business & Economics / General |
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