“Only the general manager can mold the resources, processes, and values that affect innovation , into a coherent capability to develop and launch superior new products and services repeatedly.” ValuesProcessProductsResourcesInnovationSuperiorsManagersCapabilityMoldNew ProductsGeneral Manager Book:Innovation and the General Manager Source: Innovation and the General Manager
“Part of America's industrial problems is the aim of its corporate managers. Most American executives think they are in the business to make money, rather than products or service. The Japanese corporate credo, on the other hand, is that a company should become the world's most efficient provider of whatever product and service it offers. Once it becomes the world leader and continues to offer good products, profits follow.” ThinkingWorldShouldProblemHandsAmericaCompanyLeaderProductsOffersAimProfitManagersMaking MoneyCorporateExecutivesEfficientWorld LeaderProvidersCredo Author:W. Edwards Deming
“Markets are efficient, but there are different dimensions of risk and those lead to different dimensions of expected returns. That's what people should be concerned with in their investment decisions and not with whether they can pick stocks, pick winners and losers among the various managers delivering basically the same product.” PeopleShouldDifferentDecisionRiskProductsReturnPicksConcernedInvestmentInvestingVariousExpectedManagersWinnerDimensionsLoserEfficientDeliveringWinner And LoserDifferent Dimensions Author:Eugene Fama
“I never went round to loads of managers saying 'this is what I have, this is my product and I'm going to be famous so you'd better sign me up.' They came to me.” ProductsRoundsManagersLoad Author:Amy Winehouse