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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. Managers still assume that stability is the normal state of affairs and change is the unusual state (a point I particularly challenge in The End of Competitive Advantage ). Townes, and Henry L.

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10 Principles For Developing Strategic Leaders

Tanveer Naseer

That is one of the principles behind “ open-book management “, the systematic sharing of information about the nature of the enterprise. This approach clearly differs from that of traditional cultures, in which the common channel for new ideas is limited to an individual’s direct manager.