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Schumpeter: The cult of the faceless boss | The Economist
THE European Union is not the only institution that prefers faceless technocrats to people with star power. The corporate world is increasingly rejecting imperial chief executives in favour of anonymous managers—bland and boring men and women who can hardly get themselves noticed at cocktail parties, let alone stop the traffic in Moscow and Beijing. Some of the world’s most powerful bosses are striking mainly for their blandness: Sam Palmisano at IBM, Tony Hayward at BP, Terry Leahy at Tesco, Vittorio Colao at Vodafone.Dear Micromanager: Owners of thoroughbreds never stop their horses mid-race, every ten seconds, to remind the horse and jockey how to run, where the finish line is, or that it’d be good to finish first.
An open letter to micromanagers « Scott Berkun
Kaizen and Lean Manufacturing thoughts | Gemba Panta Rei
Taiichi Ohno was the Toyota executive largely responsible for structuring and implementing the system known today as the Toyota Production System over four decades after World War II. Ohno was known for drawing a chalk circle around managers and making them stand in the circle until they had seen and documented all of the problems in a particular area. Today the "stand in a circle" exercise is a great way to train one's eyes to see waste and to provide structure for the team leader to do daily improvement or for the busy executive with limited time to go to gemba.
Life 2.0: Golden Rules from Business Visionaries
Here's a transcript of an article in Business 2.0 where they asked 30 business visionaries, collectively worth over $70 billion, what single philosophy they swear by more than any other -- in business, life, or both.Social computation and creativity » Blog Archive » Problems of b
Recently there had been a lot of discussion about Yahoo and big companies in connection to the Peanut Butter Manifesto . The manifesto was written for Yahoo, but it might have influenced Google as well (see my previous post ).
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But I don’t think software, or any tool, is an epic creation. A tool is something you make so someone else can make something.