| | The CEO Refresher - Why Good Management Ideas Fail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07) |
 | | Drucker has argued that the best managers are driven by the desire to create value for customers, and that the best way to do this is to treat workers not just as costs of production, but as resources, capable of making a sustained and valued contribution” (Micklethwait and Wooldridge, 1996, p.78). |
 | | Conversely, the more a management idea builds on the nature and strengths of a particular living social organism and honors the integrity of that organism, the greater the likelihood that the idea will be adopted and integrated into the fabric of that organism. |
 | | The second reason, then, that management ideas succeed or fail has to do with the extent to which consultants and managers honor the power of organizational culture and whether or not they practice any management idea in a manner congruent with the organization’s core culture. |
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