Unstructured Era Enterprises - Liberating Management (Part 1)

Author: Tom Peters
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: Liberation Management is a revolutionary masterpiece by contemporary management master Tom Peters, published ten years after his In Search of Excellence. He spent a quarter-century studying the vibrant Silicon Valley driven by a group of madmen and dreamers, summarizing the success formula for 21st-century businesses from them, including: repeated failures are allowed; the price of freedom is high performance. Middle managers are the primary targets of organizational layoffs. There are scientific formulas for layoffs. Outsourcing is commonplace. Don't check teams, liberate employees. Employees should have the ability to plagiarize and frequently change jobs. "Old big" companies die of obesity, while "new big" network alliances emerge in time. Information, knowledge, and intelligence will replace land, raw materials, and capital as the most important factors in production. The author repeatedly cites successful examples to validate these advanced management trends; teaching businesses and individuals to embrace chaos, enjoy innovation and risk-taking, and view each employee as an independent "brain piece of business" to cope with the prevailing global market.
What is liberation management? Embrace chaos, enjoy risk-taking: Four "short-lived" — short-lived organizations, short-lived products, short-lived markets; The five-person principle — $1 billion in revenue, with no more than five employees; No clocks, no offices, just performance; Liberate employees, encourage the release of entrepreneurial vitality; Simplify the organization before talking about digitalization; Break down the organization and move towards a path where everyone is responsible for projects.
This book is another revolutionary masterpiece by contemporary management master Tom Peters, published after In Search of Excellence. Peters spent over two decades studying the vibrant Silicon Valley driven by a group of madmen and dreamers, summarizing the mystical secrets of 21st-century business operations from them; the price of freedom is high performance; middle managers are the primary targets of organizational streamlining; there are scientific formulas for layoffs; outsourcing is commonplace; completely liberate employees, employees should have the ability to frequently change jobs. "Old big" companies die of obesity, while "new big" network alliances emerge in time. The author repeatedly cites global renowned corporate cases to validate these advanced management trends, teaching businesses that only by embracing chaos and control, enjoying innovation and risk-taking, and cherishing employees' independence and creativity can they thrive in the prevailing global market.