Orbiting the Giant Hairball
A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace
by Gordon Mackenzie
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Recommended by 3 notable people, including John Maeda and Bob Sutton
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Leadership, Business, and Nonfiction.
Creativity is crucial to business success. But too often, even the most innovative organization quickly becomes a "giant hairball"a tangled, impenetrable mass of rules, traditions, and systems, all based on what worked in the pastthat exercises an inexorable pull into mediocrity. Gordon McKenzie worked at Hallmark Cards for thirty years, many o...
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Leadership, Business, and Nonfiction.
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