It’s Broken, Let’s Fix It The Zeitgeist and Modern Enterprise
We used to have this saying: "If it ain't broken, don't fix it." It was a powerful piece of wisdom. But then, the re-engineering fashion emerged and that changed everything. This book describes the behavior of the "creature" enterprise as it evolves in an in-creasingly...
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2002, 2002
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2002 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 The Merits of Capitalism
- 2 Why Was the Winner Victorious?
- 3 Introducing Evolution
- 4 What Is Capitalism?
- 5 Contraction and Expansion
- 6 An Example, a Scenario and Some Thoughts About Them
- 7 The Enterprise
- 8 The Enterprise and the World
- 9 Commerce and Crafts
- 10 Leadership
- 11 The Selection Machine
- 12 Decisions
- 13 Excellence and Mediocrity
- 14 Courage and Bureaucracy
- 15 Pleasing the Stock Market
- 16 The Almighty Bonus
- 17 The Cost of Cost Cutting
- 18 Employees
- 19 Attention Span
- 20 Women
- 21 The Problem with Reality
- 22 The Moral Side of It All
- 23 Equilibrium and Symmetry
- 24 The Problem with Change
- 25 Fixing the Enterprise
- 26 Advice to a Young Entrepreneur
- References