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Ask yourself
How does your organisation measure up in the eight characteristics they de-
scribed?
Epilogue
One final word on the ‘people thing.’ A manager attending the Wharton business
school was interested to note the decisions his fellow students took when faced with
the following dilemma. There was a conflict between two visiting gurus. One was
offering a lecture concerned with the valuation of companies by looking at their
cashflow, the other with a very people-related topic.
The students with little or no management experience tended to choose the
finance talk while those with more experience all went to the people-oriented class.
When asked which one he went to he replied, ‘Oh the people thing, you can read the
other stuff in books.’
