http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2009/05/16/bad-to-awful/ Economics of organizations, strategy, entrepreneurship, innovation, and more Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:13:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2009/05/16/bad-to-awful/#comment-74292 Sun, 24 May 2009 17:07:48 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.com/?p=5762#comment-74292 [...] Bad to Awful? by Peter Klein on Organizations and Markets [...]

]]> http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2009/05/16/bad-to-awful/#comment-74237 Mon, 18 May 2009 10:03:49 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.com/?p=5762#comment-74237 Awsome plan, I’m in.

]]> http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2009/05/16/bad-to-awful/#comment-74235 Sun, 17 May 2009 21:46:27 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.com/?p=5762#comment-74235 I think it’s time we make good on our plans to become management gurus. I propose a three-part series: “The Awesomeness Paradigm,” “The Appearance of Awesomeness: When Awesomeness Fails,” and “Anti-Awesomeness.” The first book will explore profitable companies (Google, Starbucks, Walmart). The second will explore flashes in the pan that spiked after their IPOs and that have come back to Earth (Krispy Kreme, a lot of tech companies). The third will explore companies that made terrible products and that no longer exist. Our “Awesomeness Advice” will be “focus on maximizing profits,” and we’ll make a handful of suggestions that are specific enough to sound compelling but vague enough to not actually mean anything. Interested? Or am I just being cynical about management fads?

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