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...charging captains of industry and then the hired-hand executives who still gave all the orders. But the new heroes of business are bosses and workers who view themselves as partners. So writes Charles Garfield in Second to None (Business One Irwin; 454 pages; $22.95), an account of such teamwork-based firms as Michigan's Steelcase and Maryland's Preston trucking. Garfield views these companies as the vanguard of a revolution that will turn top-down corporations into democratic workplaces...
This apparent New Age emphasis on teamwork and trust is really a homecoming for theories that U.S. companies cold-shouldered -- and Japanese managers embraced -- when American social scientists first proposed them in the 1950s and '60s as a key to creating high-quality products. After all, executives reasoned then, U.S. firms already dominated the world using top-down management. "These ideas are coming back now because of the quality movement here," says B. Joseph White, dean of the University of Michigan business school. "U.S. senior managers have decided they have got to catch up." That has helped make "empowerment...
...place in their workers represents "a need to find new ways to set standards, motivate performance and improve organizational effectiveness," says Rex Adams, Mobil's vice president for administration. "It means maintaining flexibility across the entire work force, building morale at a time of economic stagnation and fostering teamwork when individuals feel more alone and at risk than ever before." Put another way, teamwork and caring can pay healthy dividends in the constrained 1990s and beyond...
...problem for the world's most astonishing athlete; he makes them 82 games a season. Also quadruple back-flip dunks with his eyes closed. But the man had never won it all until his Chicago Bulls captured the N.B.A. crown in a clinic of Jordan aerobics and cagey teamwork against the Los Angeles Lakers. Now will all those who scorned him as a great but selfish showman -- a one-man Harlem Globetrotters -- please shut...
...problem for the world's most astonishing athlete; he makes them 82 games a season. Also quadruple back-flip dunks with his eyes closed. But the man had never won it all until his Chicago Bulls captured the N.B.A. crown in a clinic of Jordan aerobics and cagey teamwork against the Los Angeles Lakers. Now will all those who scorned him as a great but selfish showman -- a one-man Harlem Globetrotters -- please shut...