Balancing Push and Pull Approaches to Improvement
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 10, 2011
Because the top-down pushes imposed changes from the outside, front-line people went along, but they didn't own or internalize them. For me the lesson is this: Companies should complement a top-down push with as much bottom-up pull as possible to sustain momentum and avoid regression back to previous, inferior levels of performance.
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