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Article: Debunking the Downsizing Myth: A Plea for Planning; Authors Argue That by Rewriting Rules to Their Own Advantage, Firms Can Avoid Debilitating Crash Diets
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- The Washington Post
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- October 9, 1994
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One in an occasional series highlighting new books.
If there is room for only one management book on your reading
shelf each year, this is it.
For years now, the management doctors have been prescribing
various weight-loss programs for the fat and flabby American
corporation. These cures go by various names - restructuring,
downsizing, re-engineering - each one slightly different, each with
its shortcomings and each, in its way, contributing to the renewed
profitability of key American industries.
But now come two respected consultants and business school
professors to state with authority and humor what many have
suspected lately - that endless rounds of slimming down eventually ...