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Marvin Bower

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American business theorist (1903–2003)

Person · Open Library

Born
1903
Died
,
Works
4

Top works

  • Increasing management effectiveness in an insurance company
  • Perspective on McKinsey
  • The will to lead
  • The will to manage
  • The development of executive leadership

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Type
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Listeners
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Total plays
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Quotes

  • I believe that leaders and leadership teams working together in a proper design will run the business more effectively than by hierarchical, command-and-control managing. But I can't prove that. And there are no models.
  • People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.
  • Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered — what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making.
  • A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.
  • A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.
  • Fourteen basic and well-known managing processes make up the components from which a management system for any business can be fashioned.

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