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...time when best-selling management-advice books tell corporate leaders how to behave like Attila the Hun, the philosophy at Herman Miller, Inc., is more closely attuned to the gentle precepts of St. Francis of Assisi. As described by chairman Max De Pree, 64, in Leadership Is an Art (Doubleday; $17.95), modern corporations should be communities, not battlefields. At their heart lie "covenants" between executives and employees that rest on "shared commitment to ideas, to issues, to values, to goals, and to management processes. Words such as love, warmth, personal chemistry are certainly pertinent...
This soulful style has worked well for Herman Miller (fiscal 1989 net sales: $793 million), a designer and manufacturer of office furniture based in Zeeland, Mich. The 66-year-old firm was rated among the ten most-admired U.S. corporations in FORTUNE's 1989 survey of executives and analysts. By another measure, $100 invested in Herman Miller stock in 1975 had grown to $5,156 by the end of last month...
...Herman Miller attained its lofty status by treating its 5,400 workers not as adversaries but as participants in a shared enterprise. As De Pree notes in his book, every full-time Herman Miller employee has become a stockholder , after one year of service. Workers are organized into teams and earn quarterly bonuses based on benchmarks that take into account the ideas they have contributed. "Everyone has the right and duty to influence decision-making and to understand the results," De Pree writes...
...think the campaign had much to do with it, or how the Kennedy School was perceived during the campaign," says Baker Professor of Public Management Herman "Dutch" Leonard, who chaired the review's coordinating committee. "It was just time for the school to sit back and ask ourselves what the mission of the school was and if our curriculum was doing that...
Griffith and senior defender Andy Barnard shared the Class of '59 Trophy for leadership and enthusiasm, and the Herman Hammerman Unsung Hero Award went to senior long-stick midfielder Peter Long. Freshman defender Lars Richardson was the Most Improved Player...