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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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service so that it would not have to rely on retailers or independent contractors. The combination of
product innovation, strong retailer functions, aggressive marketing, and fair-trade pricing enabled
both the major appliance and small appliance businesses to be very protable and to continue to be
leaders in their respective markets.
Postwar conditions warranted a repositioning of GE and change was overdue. But Cordiner’s
response was somewhat abrupt, in that, within a month of taking charge, he began to dismantle
what Swope had created. A champion of the organization as machine mind-set of his day, Cordiner
viewed decentralization as the primary remedy to GE’s ills. So Cordiner broke up the works and ...
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ISBN: 9781466592162