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The Management Revolution that Never Happened

The Agile Manager

Technocracy was, too: "best practice" was derived from people performing narrowly defined tasks in rigid processes that yielded poor quality products at a high cost. Microcomputers improved the efficiency of data collection and made it easy to consolidate operational data. American business exited the 1970s in terrible shape.