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The Internet Is Finally Forcing Management to Care About People

Harvard Business Review

It includes Mary Parker Follett (1920s), Elton Mayo and Chester Barnard (1930s), Abraham Maslow (1940s), Douglas McGregor (1960s), Peter Drucker (1970s), Peters and Waterman (1980s), Katzenbach and Smith (1990s), and Gary Hamel (2000s). The choice for organizations today is: change or die.

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How GE Applies Lean Startup Practices

Harvard Business Review

They’re now working on version 8, which they will produce in October, and version 10, with better lighting, and there is a design projected for 2015. Todd Waterman, GE’s corporate Lean leader, is leveraging GE Appliance’s insights with other GE units. They built 75 of version 6 in January 2014 and response so far has been positive.

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