看到6月11日《商务周刊》的一篇文章“At 3M, A Struggle Between Efficiency And Creativity”。大致内容是6σ管理的忠实追随者James McNerney在2000年底接手3M公司后,强力推行6σ管理。结果,公司的效率提高,利润激增。然而,这个以发明报事贴等方便文具而闻名的公司却面临创造力不足的窘境。专利发明等数量下降,许多老员工意见重重。在James McNerney另寻高就后,3M开始重新进入老轨道,为提高创造力而不惜降低效率。
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he-feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he-feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.