In Search Of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies (Profile Business Classics)

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Michael Goldhaber, writing in Wired, said, "If there is nothing very special about your work, no matter how hard you apply yourself you won't get noticed, and that increasingly means you won't get paid much either. If you look at the stars versus the failures, the biggest dividing line seems to be their position in relation to a megatrend—either a good one or a bad one. This is even more the case when I tell them Kodak was once one of the most respected companies on earth.

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Each contains 50 essential ideas for making this revolution an opportunity for dramatic change in our own working lives. In the zeitgeist of the day, they were truly incredible organizations with enviable performance, widely admired leaders, and strong cultures. And, above all, respect the trend, do everything you can to get ahead of it, and don’t kid yourself that you can fight it.The Professional Service Firm50: Fifty Ways to Transform Your "Department" into a Professional Service Firm Whose Trademarks are Passion and Innovation! The books are in the form of "50 lists": The Brand You50, The Project50, and The Professional Service Firm50. Not surprisingly, he has a great deal to say about how you treat your people, and that your focus should be on striving for Excellence. While evolving the flexibility theme of Thriving on Chaos to deal with the accelerating pace of business change in the early '90s, Liberation Management shows the genesis of Tom's thinking on some of his most important concepts in 1999: Project work and the professional service firm as the model organization for the new economy, along with the self as brand.

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Four low performers were also swallowed up ( Amdahl, Data General, DEC and Raychem), and three filed for bankruptcy ( Kmart, Wang and Circuit City). In my view, it was good to be great, but the external environments in which these companies found themselves mattered far more. The common denominator-bottom line for both the professional service firm/PSF and the individual/Brand You .When you take the four best performers—actually, three companies: Wal-Mart and Intel in ISOE, and Philip Morris, which appears in both GTG and BTL—out of the portfolios, the positive margin almost completely disappears.