This led to an invitation for Peter and his colleagues to give about two-hundred seventy-five speeches on the McKinsey “Eight Basics of Putting Excellence into Management.
Related Quotes
- Scott Cook interview with Michael Chui, McKinsey & Co., https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategyand-corporate-finance/our-insights/how-big-companies-can-innovate
- Scott Cook, “Accounting for Intuit’s Success,” Stanford University Lecture, November 4, 2015, https://stvp-staticprod.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/3594.pdf.
He was a superb business executive. And he did it through practicing the points covered in this chapter: operational excellence, putting people first, being decisive, communicating well, knowing how to get the most out of even the most challenging people, focusing on product excellence, and treating people well when they are let go.
(Covey, “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”, p.151)
(Covey, “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”, p.168)
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“But I also have to give some credit to a class called Organizational Behavior—mostly because they made us read The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard and by Spencer Johnson.