Friday August 26, 2011
Here is a good look at why Apple is Apple. This is an interesting article about the Apple Management Style.
The point about not missing deadlines jumped out at me. One of our textbook companies has missed getting its online book codes out in time for school to start the last couple of semesters. After the first failure, why the second? Why not put someone on this, figure out what went wrong, and make sure it does not happen again?
Success means getting 50 small things right. Failure comes from getting 50 small things wrong. Most organizations are somewhere in between.
Professor Elam 
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