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Konosuke Matsushita, who founded Matsushita Electric, chillingly said:
We will win and you will lose. You cannot do anything about it because your failure is an internal disease. You firmly believe that sound management means executives on one side and workers on the other, on one side men who think, and on the other, men who can only work. For you, management is the art of smoothly transferring the executives’ ideas into the workers’ hands.
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Morton, C. (1994). How Can Your Company Achieve Best Practice?. In: Becoming World Class. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13601-8_4
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