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Control Through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management

New Books in Business, Management, and Marketing

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The Evolution of the Illinois Central

I think Skoville was very continuous and that was not the case with DuPont. You could also see some resistance to it in DuPont because it was more like they started, they had bought up all these dynamite companies. So there's a very clear point at which all these ideas, you know, there had been tiny bits of evolution before, but not much. And then there's just big change. The fact that I did them in a different order means I didn't think of them as evolving across the three companies, as much as evolving in different ways.

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