Management Has To Provide The Coordinating Mechanism

In The Study Of Management, Unfortunately, Many Writers Have Been So Anxious To Articulate A Theory In The Form Of, "if You Do This, This Will Result," That They Never Go Through This Careful Effort.

Whenever We Have Thanked These Men And Women For What They Have Done For Us, Without Exception They Have Expressed Gratitude For Having The Chance To Help - Because They Grew As They Served.

In Most Instances, Biotechnology, Though A Radically Different Approach, Is A Sustaining Technology: It's A Dramatically Improved Way Of Targeting Problems That We Hadn't Been Able To Solve With The Conventional Approach Of Mainstream Pharmaceutical Companies.

One Reason There Are So Many Short-lived Management Fads Is That Their Prescriptions Were Derived And Advocated In Precisely This Way. So Managers Read About A Fad And Try It, Find That It Doesn't Work, Abandon The Effort, And Move On To The Next Thing. In Reality, It Is Usually The Case That The Faddish Prescription Was Indeed Sound Advice In Certain Circumstances, But Actually Was Poor Advice In Other Circumstances.

In A Large Successful Company Where Your Power Base As Ceo Isn't All That Secure, It's Hard For A Ceo To Pursue A Truly Disruptive Strategy.