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When management is the only path to higher compensation, the quality of management suffers, and the lives of the people who work for these reluctant managers become miserable.
|
063 |
 |
A company that is managed only for the benefit of shareholders treats its employees as a line item, a cost to be contained.
|
006 |
 |
To stay vigorous, a company needs to provide a stimulating and challenging environment for all these types: the dreamer, the entrepreneur, the professional manager, and the leader.
|
204 |
 |
A company whose management is not planning for the distant future can never grow beyond the latest faddish concept.
|
328 |
 |
…the business environment in which most strategy and management approaches of the twentieth century evolved is increasingly disappearing.
|
008 |
 |
By looking across time – from the value a market delivers today to the value it might deliver tomorrow – managers can actively shape their future and lay claim to a new blue ocean.
|
075 |
 |
To tip the cognitive hurdle, not only must you get your managers out of the office to see operational horror, but also you must get them to listen to their most disgruntled customers firsthand.
|
161 |
 |
By violating fair process in making and rolling out strategies, managers can turn their best employees into their worst…
|
181 |
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Few working lives are untouched by organizational changes, internal management shuffles, office politics, and the stress, burnout, or disaffection that goes with the territory.
|
017 |
 |
Despite the best efforts of psychologists, sociologists, and management consultants, denial will remain a pitfall of business life.
|
204 |
