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Inverting the Paradox of Excellence
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Inverting the Paradox of Excellence

by Vivek Kale
July 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
442 pages
21h 44m
English
Productivity Press
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65Variations and Theories of Excellence
Enterprises can be conceptualized as potentially being able to apply seemingly mutually
exclusive concepts; enabling holistic, integrative, and inductive thinking; simultaneously using
apparently contradictory concepts; and obviating the need to perceive enterprises as full of irrec-
oncilable trade-offs. The all-and principle enables a perspective of enterprise as being both control
and people oriented, seeing people aspects both as ends and means, being control oriented while
maintaining an adequate level of exibility, focusing on quality as well as on efciency, or showing
both a humanistic and a mechanistic focus.
Technology, especially IT, resolves the paradox between the requirements for adequate ...
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ISBN: 9781466592162