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=Intro=
=Intro=
*Design org to be objective, not subject to personalities
*No org is sounder than the men who run it
*No org is sounder than the men who run it
*Centralized in policy and decent is administration
*Centralized in policy and decent is administration

Revision as of 03:38, 25 May 2024

Archive

https://archive.org/details/myyearswithgener0000unse/page/n26/mode/1up?view=theater

Intro

  • Design org to be objective, not subject to personalities
  • No org is sounder than the men who run it
  • Centralized in policy and decent is administration
  • Intro p22 -Competition for survival as greatest incentive. Ie, getting your fucking ass kicked as an incentive? How about constructive incentives?

Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/0385042353/ref=cm_cr_dp_mb_top?

  • Read some of the reviews to see if it's worth it
  • First long review shows that book didn't cover production for the nazis in WW2. Details!
  • Tanks were welded in a merry-go-round system that required learning only one simple weld rather than full scale training
  • Great book on scarcity economics (competition) and Gayes' pick if you were to read only one biz book