All Summaries
All Summaries
The Silverlake Project documents the development of the best-selling AS/400 computer and the organizational changes at IBM Rochester that helped the enterprise win the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality...
Survival of the fittest is the dominant theme in today's world of unregulated global competition. Though the U.S. still has one of the highest levels of productivity in the world, its rate of improvement has fallen...
At the end of World War II, America saw the birth rate soar to unprecedented numbers, and then, in the early '60s, "suddenly" plummet. Because of this boom/bust cycle, American business will be left stranded. Corporate...
In 1886, Charles Martin Hall discovered an inexpensive way to smelt aluminum, and the patent he immediately applied for gave him a legal monopoly on his invention. In 1889, Alfred E. Hunt, a Pittsburgh entrepreneur and...
Korea and Japan have many things in common: the same Oriental heritage, many traditional values, and a lack of useful land and natural resources. These characteristics make them more like each other than either beign...
Personal preparation is what distinguishes the successful stock picker from the chronic loser. Defining your objectives and clarifying your attitudes are important first considerations. Logic is most helpful in picking...
Blunder 1: Building Better Mousetraps. The main reason so many start-up companies/products/services fail is the "building-better-mousetrap" thinking that does not take the customer into account. Blunder 2: Selling Too...
We no longer control our economic destiny. Decisions being made in Japan and Germany have begun to determine what jobs Americans will have next year, and the living standards of our children in the 21st century. There...
The authors describe in detail why and how Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson gave up engineering positions at MIT in order to start Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in August of 1957. They focus on how Olsen and...
Tom Watson, Sr., set up a model of the modern industrial company. He based many of his ideas on those of his mentor, John T. Patterson of NCR, from whom Watson learned lessons in hardball business competition, such as...
