Liberation Management (Part 2)

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 devoted a quarter of a century to studying the vibrant Silicon Valley driven by a group of eccentrics and dreamers, from whom he derived the formula for 21st-century corporate success, including:
Repeated failures are allowed;
The price of freedom is high efficiency.
Middle managers are the primary targets of organizational layoffs.
There are scientific formulas for layoffs.
Outsourcing is commonplace.
Don’t check on your liberated employees.
Employees should have the skills to plagiarize and frequently jump ship.
“Old” large enterprises die of obesity, while “new” large networks of alliances emerge in time.
Information, knowledge, and wisdom 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.
This book is divided into two parts: Market and Innovation, and Trendiness, with main content including:
Embrace chaos, enjoy risk-taking;
The most important principle: Let the market decide;
Powerful small fish: German Mittelstand, etc.