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To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the History of GM

Harvard Business Review

Peter Drucker wrote that Sloan was “the first to work out how to systematically organize a big company. Sloan kept the corporate staff small and focused on policy making, corporate finance, and planning. Sloan’s book My Years with General Motors , written half a century ago, is still a readable business classic.

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Be a Minimally Invasive Manager

Harvard Business Review

Peter Drucker. These companies tend to be run by engineers and creatives, not MBAs. At least in Silicon Valley, management is becoming just another operating function, like payroll and finance and sales, all serving to facilitate the work of the technically and creatively skilled who do the heavy lifting.

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How China’s Government Helps — and Hinders — Innovation

Harvard Business Review

As the era of China as the world’s low-cost manufacturer comes to an end, innovation has become the most important element in the state’s development blueprint. Given its ideological leanings, China presents itself as a unique experiment in the power of the state to help the economy become more innovative. in 2000 to 2.0%