[IxDA Discuss] Tog talks about iPhone

Esteban Barahona esteban.barahona at gmail.com
Wed Jan 17 19:11:52 PST 2007


Could you expand? Who's Peter Drucker? Those he write books (...I can ad it
to my "wishlist->books" from amazon.com)?

150? Why that number?

2007/1/17, Mark Schraad <mschraad at mac.com>:
>
> If you're a Peter Drucker fan you will be familiar with this notion. I
> will try and paraphrase as accurately as I can remember... profit is must
> have and should be a given in any company (table stakes?), but the "purpose"
> must be someting greater.
>
> We have known since the Roman Empire that there is an optimal size, no
> greater than 150 people for executing efficiently and effectively. In this
> context, culture is critical. I will nearly always put culture over
> strategy... it is far more powerful.
>
>
> >World-Wide Corporations doesn't have a culture.
> >It's a waste of human resources to live for profit. And that's the
> >pseudo-culture of WW Corporations.
>
>
>


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