Slides for my keynote "Rewriting the Rules of Management for the Facebook Generation" at the Proactive conference in Kozara, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Vladimir Vulic (October 2014)
3. “In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.”-Frederick W. Taylor
4. “Management is the most important invention of the XX century. Nothing, not the combustion engine, not the steam turbine, was as important. Because without management, none of those other things are affordable.”-Gary Hamel, management thinker
5. The average lifespan of an S&P 500 company:
1920 –67 years
2013 –15 years! (source: Richard Foster, Yale University)
6. Out of the 1,000 biggest companies in the US in 2003, almost 70% were not on the list in 2013!
7. “It is not the strongestof the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the onemost responsive to change.”
Charles Darwin, Author of “The Origin of Species”
25. “Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their jobs done.” Peter Drucker, management thinker
26. “Taylor, though the Isaac Newton (or perhaps the Archimedes) of the science of work, laid only first foundations, however. Not much has been added to them since -even though he has been dead all of 60 years.”-Peter Drucker, management thinker, 1974.
27. The word “Management” comes from the Italian “manegio/manegiare“ and French “menége” –“to handle, to train (horses)”
31. When top level guys look down, they see only sh*t.
When bottom level guys look up, they see only a**holes!
32. “Hierarchy is a place in which everyone has their face toward the CEO and their ass toward the customer.” Jack WelchChairman and CEO of General Electric
35. “Your desk has wheels for a reason.”
The simple ruleat Valve
36. “We’re trying to figure out how to structure Zappos more like a city, and less like a bureaucratic corporation. In a city, people and businesses are self-organising.”-Tony Hsieh, CEO
39. Whole Foods has gone ahead and made the salary data public to all employees!
40. “Don’t treat your employees like mushrooms –don’t keep them in the dark and don’t regularly throw crap on them!”
41. At Morning Star, there is no central purchasing department and no senior executive who signs off on capital expenditures. Employees are responsible for acquiring the tools and equipment they need.
42. ”The one thing that will certainly get you firedhere is being someone who does things the way we’ve always done them.”
Kevin Plank, Under Armour, founder and CEO
43. “Nowadays, people under 35 don't want to be leador managed-those words are too strong for them. They want to be worked WITH.”-Karl Moore, management professor
44. Vladimir Vulić
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