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tl;dr: Keep cutting costs way past the point where it kills the ability to innovate, maintain quality, or survive an unexpected shift in the business. Cover tha
by Zigurd 2y ago
tl;dr: Keep cutting costs way past the point where it kills the ability to innovate, maintain quality, or survive an unexpected shift in the business. Cover that with low-bidder outsourcing until that fails. Meanwhile hit the talk shows (on media where your company is an advertiser), have a book ghostwritten, and buy naming rights to a business school. Have your acolytes form a cult (Lean Six Sigma) with toxic group dynamics ("black belt" inquisitors and "green belt" minions vs everyone else).
- robertlagrant 2y agoThis doesn't sound the world I live in. There's been insane innovation over the last 50 years. I don't think we can say that what you describe is common.
- Zigurd 2y agoThat's because businesses that innovate, or that have consistent high quality, don't operate like GE did under Jack Welch. Reverence for him and his supposed management principles is still commonplace, though not as much as in the 1990s.
- robertlagrant 2y agoOkay, but the context was: > with Jack Welch style management everywhere If it's not everywhere, it's worth mentioning that this is a boogeyman people cite rather than a reality.