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Corporate Culture
While each business is dierent, there are general management principles
for corporate culture that apply to all of them. I will detail some of these
here. e list is by no means complete, but it includes most of the common
elements that make the dierence between failure and success in compa-
nies whether they are large or small.
ere is a 3000-year- old quote from the book of Ecclesiastes: “ere is
nothing new under the sun.”
Industrial nations have been manufacturing products for several hun-
dred years in dierent countries, and dierent cultures. Yet, during my
40years of tenure in industry and in studying management techn ...