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It's Broken, Let's Fix It
Gerard de Beuckelaer
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Description for It's Broken, Let's Fix It
Hardback. Takes a look at the behavior of the modern enterprise as it evolves in this increasingly complex universe. This title offers an analysis of the way things really work taking the perspective of people being both the perpetrators and the victims in the corporate game. Num Pages: 284 pages, 71 black & white illustrations, 6 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: KCB; KJ; U. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 668.
We used to have this saying:"Ifit ain't broken, don't fix it." That was a pow erful piece of wisdom. It meant: "Ifsomething should, against all odds, func tion properly, then do not touch it, you might make things worse!" But then, the re-engineering fashion emerged, and somebody whom I used to deeply admire as one of the most brilliant teachers I ever saw at work, when he was still an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts In stitute of Technology (MIT), coined the phrase:"Ifit is not broken: break it!" Now that is obvious non-sense on a logical level,but ... Read more
We used to have this saying:"Ifit ain't broken, don't fix it." That was a pow erful piece of wisdom. It meant: "Ifsomething should, against all odds, func tion properly, then do not touch it, you might make things worse!" But then, the re-engineering fashion emerged, and somebody whom I used to deeply admire as one of the most brilliant teachers I ever saw at work, when he was still an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts In stitute of Technology (MIT), coined the phrase:"Ifit is not broken: break it!" Now that is obvious non-sense on a logical level,but ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783540673255
SKU
V9783540673255
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