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The Great Game of Business: Unlocking the Power and Profitability of Open-Book Management

"This revised and updated edition ... lays out an entirely different way of running a company. It wasn't dreamed up in an executive think tank or an Ivy League business school or around the conference table by big-time consultants. It was forged on the factory floors of the heartland by ordinary folks hoping to figure out how to save their jobs when their parent company, International Harvester, went down the tubes. ..."—Back cover.

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adult
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medium · 304 pages

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