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How Drucker Thought About Complexity

Harvard Business Review

Evidence of this pressure is starkly captured in the return on assets (ROA) for all public companies in the US since 1965. This post is part of a series leading up to the fifth annual Global Drucker Forum in November 2013 in Vienna, Austria. The result is relentlessly mounting performance pressure.

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The Challenges GM Is Facing, and the Reasoning Behind Its Plant Closures

Harvard Business Review

For example, the Lordstown, Ohio, factory that makes the Chevy Cruze is running one shift a day, down from three a few years ago, and last year produced 180,000 vehicles, down from 248,000 in 2013. Capital-intensive factories have a high-fixed-cost, low-variable-cost operating model. Given the shift in immediate U.S.