Of course business cultures try to make the best product they can (as long as it is cost effective) and craft cultures try to make money (on the best products they can make). It isn't a black-and-white distinction. You could probably also call this a top-down (business) vs bottom-up (craft) culture.
On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 7:55 AM Chase Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm pretty sure Google et al do what they do because it makes them money. > Otherwise there would not be a Google. > On Dec 21, 2015 9:51 AM, "Atom Powers" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have recently come to believe that Drucker's work and work based on it, >> like The Goal and The Phoenix Project, are great when you work in an >> organization with a business culture and can be misleading or harmful in a >> craft culture organization. >> >> Can you suggest culture and/or process books that might be more >> appropriate for a craft culture organization? And especially about building >> or managing a craft culture. >> >> A business culture organization is one where you do work because it is >> profitable to do the work. You build products because you want people to >> buy those products. Examples: Comcast, Dell, Oracle, and almost everybody >> with publicly traded stock. >> >> A craft culture organization is one where you do work because it improves >> the product. You build products because you want to build the best thing. >> Examples: Amazon, Google, Lego, and often private companies. >> >> >> -- >> Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. >> --Atom Powers-- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> http://lopsa.org/ >> >> -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers--
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