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A Brief History of the Ways Companies Compete

Harvard Business Review

Many companies still compete this way and there continue to be successors to Taylorism, including business process reengineering and lean production. Many attributed Japan’s economic ascension after WWII to dramatically increasing the quality of its products. The second movement was scale , a close cousin of efficiency.

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Please, Can We All Just Stop "Innovating"?

Harvard Business Review

There's something about the culture of business that tends toward excess — in financial markets, to be sure, but also in the "market" for new ideas and management techniques.