Book Titles

When things move fast, the need to concentrate on what is going on in their environment gives people less time and energy to devote to organizational politics.

In a modern company, the knowledge crucial to success is dispersed across the employees and cannot all be concentrated at the the top management level.

…while most decisions should be delegated to employees with superior knowledge of local conditions, overall authority… cannot be passed down the line.

…managers need to resist the tendency to measure everything, to reward only that which can be measured, and to downplay the role of human judgment.

…digitalization is a double-edged sword. It is easy for managers to become overreliant on digital tools.