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- Could Microsoft’s Windows Be Disrupted? by Scott Anthony – “as Clayton Christensen pointed out in his seminal book The Innovators’ Dilemma, market leadership isn’t just an insufficient buffer against disruption, in some cases it is the root cause of failure.”
- Learning to say no by Dan Markovitz – “The CFO says no when the president want to renovate the offices or hire new people, and the company can’t afford it — that’s part of her fiduciary responsibility. You have a responsibility, too — you have to set expectations about what can be accomplished with the resources (time and people) available.”
- Connecting to the Customers by Lee Fried – “It is amazing how much you can learn in a short period of time by spending time listening to the voice of the customer. What is just as amazing is how much you can learn from talking to the people who spend forty hours a week listening to the customer”
- Remembering the Model T by Jon Thompson – “So on the 100th anniversary of the Model T, it seems worth tipping the Toyota hat to Henry Ford and the production techniques he so cleverly harnessed. Those techniques put us all on wheels.”
- The Hard Sell for Cells by Jon Miller – “The cell brings processes together, thereby bringing people together. The basic unit for natural work teams to form work zones that connected physically and in terms of work flow. When the person working to either side of you directly depends on the work you do to be successful, team spirit can take root.”
- Why my oil company can’t deliver by “They could make fewer, or at least better timed visits to the customer… I’m guessing because they can’t predict my oil use that well and if they targeted a refill at a 1/4 tank, I’d run out of oil sometimes… And what’s horrible about it is a little extra free information is all they’d need to cut visits and still not have anyone run out of oil.”
- Systemic problems in US healthcare? by Bill Harris – “Treating the symptoms might make things better in the short term, but we shouldn’t be surprised when they return if the disease remains present. That’s where the systemic approaches come in: they can help us find the structures at work creating our problems, and they can help us test our theories about proposed solutions.”
- Be Careful with Copying by Mark Graban – “Unfortunately, there are no short cuts to this process. Copying someone else’s layout may end up being suboptimal for your needs.”
- Interactions and Systems by John Dowd – “Successful managers understand these interactions, how they work and they manage them as well as the main effects.”
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