Does Stanford give these claims legitimacy? If the results are 9.5% unproductive, then are 90.5% productive? Assuming a normal distribution one might infer that 9.5% is really low rates of unproductive workers. The fact they went on low-key investigations shows the toxic environments.

It's hard to use planning and strategy together because strategy is a response to an emergent stimulus which is not predictable as a plan. Organisations don't seem to use communication, the most effective tool for organising, to align actions with a strategy.

lmcnamara.com/p/communicat...

So you're saying money doesn't buy happiness?

Hopefully tomorrow we can have a bill putting a $3.50 price cap on Tim Tams.

Ikea has that effect on people.

Makes you wonder the actual effectiveness of product management as a methodology for designing and developing products for "the customers' needs" when a 'back to basics' platform can become a magnet for users.

With age comes experience, right?

To your point about western markets banning or requiring factories to be built domestically - There are western markets though with no domestic auto manufacturing, e.g. Australia. It makes it hard for those countries to force one automaker to force on-shoring production and others not.