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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

"Creative accounting" is really bad. Say that in a roomful of managers, and you get nervous laughter. The only thing that can save us is an accounting breakthrough." Wall Street's " financial innovations " of recent years seem to have given creativity a bad name. These two myths of creativity raise two questions.

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Eliminate Slogans, Exhortations and Targets

Deming Institute

Edwards Deming’s list of 14 points for western management : Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. If so, you should examine your management system. It is a bad sign and points to serious management problems. Point 10 on W.

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