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What’s Wrong With Management Practices in Silicon Valley? A Lot.
To prevent high turnover, burnout and loss of employee commitment, learn to avoid four practices that are undermining some high-profile companies.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
Everyone seems enamored of Silicon Valley. It has certainly spawned much new technology and created vast wealth. As a consequence, many executives visit Silicon Valley companies, read books about them and seek to copy the Valley’s approach to management. But as high-tech commentator Esther Dyson has perceptively noted, although Silicon Valley is good at generating new technologies quickly, it has been much less successful in building sustainable organizations or in using sound management practices. So, before you rush to copy the Silicon Valley approach to management, a word or two of caution seems in order.
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What’s Wrong With Management Practices in Silicon Valley? A Lot.
To prevent high turnover, burnout and loss of employee commitment, learn to avoid four practices that are undermining some high-profile companies.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
Everyone seems enamored of Silicon Valley. It has certainly spawned much new technology and created vast wealth. As a consequence, many executives visit Silicon Valley companies, read books about them and seek to copy the Valley’s approach to management. But as high-tech commentator Esther Dyson has perceptively noted, although Silicon Valley is good at generating new technologies quickly, it has been much less successful in building sustainable organizations or in using sound management practices. So, before you rush to copy the Silicon Valley approach to management, a word or two of caution seems in order.
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