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The Competence Cage

Competence got you here. Ownership is what makes you free.

This book presents an in-depth empirical study of food and plastic family-owned small and medium enterprises (SMEs), tracing their histories, organizational evolution, and generational transitions. Beginning as small, traditionally managed firms, these businesses have adapted over time, with some emerging as medium-scale, semi-professional entities, while a few have grown into large, professionally managed corporations. Focused on the development of tacit knowledge through innovation, this study explores the "3Ms" framework and its role in sustaining these enterprises across generations. The concluding chapter synthesizes key findings, addresses initial research questions, and highlights the divergent paths of family firms in food production versus plastics, where tacit knowledge proves less relevant amid modern technological trends. Offering insights into nurturing innovation and upgrading product quality.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Lee Kean Yew, Ph.D. is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Chinese Studies, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. He received his Ph.D. from the Asia-Europe Institute with specialization in Economics and Administration studies at Universiti Malaya. His research interests span family businesses in Southeast Asia, Malaysian Chinese society and the cultural innovation of the Malaysian Chinese community. He currently forms a research team exploring cultural innovation of family businesses in Southeast Asia.Wong Sau Man is a doctoral candidate in Chinese Studies at Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. She holds a Master of Chinese Studies and a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the same institution. Her research focuses on entrepreneurial studies, business management, and the application of Chinese philosophy in contemporary society. This interdisciplinary training offers a distinctive perspective on enterprises as economic, cultural and historical institutions shaped by the evolution of knowledge and cultural continuity. She has conducted extensive case studies on Malaysian family businesses, analyzing their adaptation strategies, market evolution, and generational transitions.

This book presents an in-depth empirical study of food and plastic family-owned small and medium enterprises (SMEs), tracing their histories, organizational evolution, and generational transitions. Beginning as small, traditionally managed firms, these businesses have adapted over time, with some emerging as medium-scale, semi-professional entities, while a few have grown into large, professionally managed corporations. Focused on the development of tacit knowledge through innovation, this study explores the "3Ms" framework and its role in sustaining these enterprises across generations. The concluding chapter synthesizes key findings, addresses initial research questions, and highlights the divergent paths of family firms in food production versus plastics, where tacit knowledge proves less relevant amid modern technological trends. Offering insights into nurturing innovation and upgrading product quality.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Whispers of Innovation

Tacit Knowledge in Malaysian Plastics and Food Industries

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award How 1,000 years of global history show why technological and economic progress is often followed by stagnation and even collapse In How Progress Ends, Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventional belief that economic and technological progress is inevitable. For most of human history, stagnation was the norm, and even today progress and prosperity in the world's largest, most advanced economies--the United States and China--have fallen short of expectations. To appreciate why we cannot depend on any AI-fueled great leap forward, Frey offers a remarkable and fascinating journey across the globe, spanning the past 1,000 years, to explain why some societies flourish and others fail in the wake of rapid technological change. By examining key historical moments--from the rise of the steam engine to the dawn of AI--Frey shows why technological shifts have shaped, and sometimes destabilized, entire civilizations. He explores why some leading technological powers of the past--such as Song China, the Dutch Republic, and Victorian Britain--ultimately lost their innovative edge, why some modern nations such as Japan had periods of rapid growth followed by stagnation, and why planned economies like the Soviet Union collapsed after brief surges of progress. Frey uncovers a recurring tension in history: while decentralization fosters the exploration of new technologies, bureaucracy is crucial for scaling them. When institutions fail to adapt to technological change, stagnation inevitably follows. Only by carefully balancing decentralization and bureaucracy can nations innovate and grow over the long term--findings that have worrying implications for the United States, Europe, China, and other economies today. Through a rich narrative that weaves together history, economics, and technology, How Progress Ends reveals that managing the future requires us to draw the right lessons from the past.

Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations

How Progress Ends

A Playbook for High-Stakes Board Decisions

Critical Calls

Anyone can be a contrarian. Effective leaders are smart about when--and how--they go against conventional wisdom to succeed.Contrarians are, by and large, ineffective. Their countervailing ideas don't gain support. Their pleas for understanding are dismissed. Their efforts to change minds backfire. But it's not because they're always wrong. It's because they're not smart about going against the grain. People tend to think of contrarianism as some innate trait that you either have or you don't. It's not. It's a way of thinking and a set of skills that can be learned and practiced.This provocative and deeply researched book teaches those skills. Strategy scholars Chengwei Liu and Balázs Kovács reveal how exceptional performance is far less predictable--and far less meritocratic--than most people believe. Drawing on insights from behavioral science, business strategy, finance, sports, entertainment, and entrepreneurship, they show how luck, social dynamics, institutional conformity, and hidden biases shape who succeeds, who fails, and which ideas rise to the top.The authors uncover why consensus thinking so often leads organizations and leaders astray through fascinating stories ranging from PSY's "Gangnam Style" to the rise of Capital One to venture capital bets, celebrity CEOs, financial collapses, and viral cultural phenomena. They introduce a powerful framework for spotting overlooked opportunities, avoiding costly decision traps, and building organizations that learn faster than their competitors do.Leaders and professionals who thrive are not reckless rebels or irrational gamblers but disciplined, smart contrarians who know how to separate signal from hype, skill from luck, and genuine innovation from fashionable noise.Fresh and highly original--and a joy to read--Smart Contrarians is the guide for executives, leaders, entrepreneurs, and all ambitious professionals who want to zig when everyone else zags.

How to Think Differently about Thinking Differently

Smart Contrarians

Palgrave Studies in Entrepreneurship and Society

How Citizens Create Value, Shape Ecosystems, and Drive Systemic Change

Citizen Entrepreneurship

Reframing Human Resources Leadership With Human-Centered AI

Workplaces and societies are changing at a pace rarely seen before. Advances in technology, shifting workforce demographics, global economic uncertainty, and major social and political disruptions are transforming how people work, communicate, lead, and adapt to change. At the same time, organizations are being challenged to respond to evolving expectations surrounding leadership, employee well-being, diversity, flexibility, and social responsibility. These changes are not only reshaping the structure of workplaces but are also influencing broader patterns of social development, institutional trust, and economic stability across communities worldwide. Evolving Societies and Contemporary Workplace Issues provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing leaders, organizations, and society in the 21st century. Through theoretical insights, empirical research, and real-world case studies, this book explores how leadership approaches, workforce development strategies, and society as a whole must evolve to ensure resilience and sustainability. Covering topics such as human-centered leadership, redefining work-life boundaries, and evaluating work model effectiveness, this book is an indispensable academic resource for graduate and doctoral students, organizational leaders, executives, managers, human resource professionals, workforce development specialists, nonprofit leaders, community development professionals, policymakers, and more.

Evolving Societies and Contemporary Workplace Issues

Rate every task from 0 to 10 to reclaim your strategic focus The average professional is interrupted every eleven minutes and spends more than half the workday reacting rather than leading. In The 0-10 Rule: A Simple System for Laser Focus in a World of Overload, behavioral scientist Dr. Michelle Rozen, PhD, introduces a framework rooted in clinical psychology that converts subjective judgment into structured decision-making, helping leaders prioritize what truly moves the needle. The 0-10 Rule asks leaders to rate every task, decision, and commitment on a scale of 0 to 10 based on strategic impact. Items scoring 9 or 10 receive full attention and resources; everything below 7 gets delegated, deferred, or dropped. The framework scales from individual contributors to C-suite executives and entire organizations, delivering faster decisions, reduced burnout, and higher engagement. Readers will also discover: <ul> <li>A structured scoring method that replaces reactive urgency with deliberate, impact-driven prioritization across every level of leadership</li> <li>Techniques for protecting cognitive bandwidth so leaders can focus energy on high-value work that drives measurable results</li> <li>Strategies for delegating and deferring low-impact tasks without losing accountability or dropping critical organizational commitments</li> <li>A scalable framework designed to work for individual contributors, cross-functional teams, and enterprise-wide leadership development programs</li> <li>Research-backed insights drawn from behavioral science and tested with leaders at organizations including Pfizer, Coca-Cola, and Kaiser Permanente</li> </ul> Written for mid-to-senior level executives, project managers, entrepreneurs, and HR leaders, and anyone who is ready to ruthlessly prioritize under pressure without burning out or giving up, The 0-10 Rule provides the structured clarity needed to stop reacting to noise and start directing attention toward the work that delivers strategic outcomes.

A Science-Backed System for Laser Focus in a Busy World

The 0-10 Rule

Digital transformation is frequently presented as a technological challenge. Yet, organizations are not transformed by technology alone, but by the people who collectively interpret, adapt, and integrate digital technologies into their everyday work practices. This book argues that understanding digital transformation therefore requires moving beyond technology-deterministic and higher organization-level perspectives toward a human-centred view of change.
 Drawing on Humanistic Management, the Viable Systems Approach, and the Social Constructivism of Technology, the book develops the concept of 
 Communal Constructivism of Technology
 , a theoretical framework that explains how technological meaning is collectively constructed within firms. By emphasizing knowledge sharing, trust, participation, and collaboration, it offers a dynamic understanding of how digital technologies become legitimate, meaningful, and actionable. Addressed to scholars, students, and practitioners, this book provides both theoretical insights and practical guidance for designing digital transformation strategies in which technological innovation and human development evolve together as complementary dimensions.
 Riccardo Rialti
 is a Senior Assistant Professor of Marketing Management at the University of Siena, Italy. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Marketing at the Istituto Europeo di Design – IED. Previously, he has worked for the University of Florence and University of Milan. His research typically adopts qualitative methodologies to explore the human factor in digital environments. He has published widely in books and journals and serves on several journal editorial boards.

Digital transformation is frequently presented as a technological challenge. Yet, organizations are not transformed by technology alone, but by the people who collectively interpret, adapt, and integrate digital technologies into their everyday work practices. This book argues that understanding digital transformation therefore requires moving beyond technology-deterministic and higher organization-level perspectives toward a human-centred view of change.&nbsp;
 Drawing on Humanistic Management, the Viable Systems Approach, and the Social Constructivism of Technology, the book develops the concept of 
 Communal Constructivism of Technology
 , a theoretical framework that explains how technological meaning is collectively constructed within firms. By emphasizing knowledge sharing, trust, participation, and collaboration, it offers a dynamic understanding of how digital technologies become legitimate, meaningful, and actionable. Addressed to scholars, students, and practitioners, this book provides both theoretical insights and practical guidance for designing digital transformation strategies in which technological innovation and human development evolve together as complementary dimensions.

Guidelines for Manufacturing SMEs

Communal Constructivism of Technology and Human-Centered Digital Transformation

Dieses Buch bietet kompakte und praxisnahe Hilfestellung für eine wirtschaftlich sinnvolle Anwendung des Building Information Modelling (BIM). Dieses Konzept hat sich im Rahmen des digitalen Wandels der Immobilienwirtschaft von einem Trend zu einer etablierten Methode entwickelt, die das Potenzial birgt, unsere Art zu planen, zu bauen und zu betreiben grundlegend zu verbessern. Die wirtschaftliche Bewertung von BIM ist ein entscheidender Baustein. Häufig werden die Potenziale nicht voll ausgeschöpft, weil eine klare, strukturierte Betrachtung der Investition fehlt oder weil die Perspektiven der verschiedenen Beteiligten nicht ausreichend berücksichtigt werden. Hier setzen wir an: Wir gliedern die Investitionsrechnung entlang der Phasen des Gebäudelebenszyklus und beleuchten dabei gezielt die relevanten Kosten und Nutzen für die jeweils wichtigsten Stakeholder – Architekten, Ingenieure, Bauherren, Ausführende und Betreiber. Ziel ist es, Ihnen nicht nur die Methoden an die Hand zu geben, sondern auch durch konkrete Beispiele aufzuzeigen, wie Sie fundierte Entscheidungen über den Einsatz von BIM treffen können. Wir möchten Sie ermutigen, die Wirtschaftlichkeit von BIM genauso ernst zu nehmen wie die technische Implementierung.Der Inhalt<ul><li>Normative Rahmenbedingungen &amp; Standardisierung</li><li>Theoretische Grundlagen: Mikroökonomie, Verhaltenswissenschaft und Organisation</li><li>Grundlagen der Investitionsrechnung und finanzmathematische Modellierung von BIM</li><li>Implementierungsebenen und stakeholderspezifische Rentabilität</li><li>Mathematische Dekonstruktion von Produktivitätseffekten und Fehlallokationen</li><li>Strategische Definition von BIM-Anwendungsfällen: Von der Kompexität zur Methodik</li><li>Strategische Dokumentenentwicklung (AIA &amp; BAP)</li><li>Grenzen der Kalkulierbarkeit: Kommunikation und Controlling als strategische Erfolgsfaktoren</li><li>Ausblick auf die Ökonomie der Autonomie – BIM als Fundament für das KI-Zeitalter</li></ul>Die AutorenJakob Hirn ist CEO der Build Informed GmbH in Innsbruck.Professor Dr. Andreas Schmalfuß ist Inhaber der Professur für Allgemeine Betriebswirtschaftslehre mit den Schwerpunkten Rechnungswesen und Finanzcontrolling an der Hochschule Mittweida.

Dieses Buch bietet Ihnen eine kompakte, aber vor allem praxisnahe Hilfestellung. Es vergleicht BIM mit einem vielseitigen Digitalen Schweizer Messer für Ihr Projekt: ein integriertes Werkzeug, das für jede Phase und viele Aufgaben die passende Funktion bereithält. Building Information Modelling (BIM) hat sich im Rahmen des digitalen Wandels der Immobilienwirtschaft von einem Trend zu einer etablierten Methode entwickelt, die das Potenzial birgt, unsere Art zu planen, zu bauen und zu betreiben grundlegend zu verbessern. Viele Unternehmen haben bereits erste Schritte unternommen, Software implementiert und Mitarbeiter geschult. Doch nach der initialen Euphorie stellt sich immer drängender die Frage: Rechnet sich das? Wann und für wen zahlt sich die Investition in BIM wirklich aus? Erstaunlicherweise wird diese Frage in der Bauwirtschaft oft nur oberflächlich oder gar nicht gestellt. Während in anderen Branchen – von der Industrie bis zur IT – detaillierte Investitionsrechnungen und ROI-Analysen vor jeder größeren Anschaffung Standard sind, fehlt diese wirtschaftliche Stringenz bei der Einführung von BIM häufig. Es wird implementiert, weil es modern ist oder gefordert wird, aber selten wird systematisch geprüft, ob und wie sich die Investition amortisiert. Genau hier setzt dieser Leitfaden an. Bei Build Informed GmbH ist es unsere Mission, durch intelligente Datennutzung und vernetzte Prozesse zu besseren Entscheidungen im Bauwesen beizutragen. Die wirtschaftliche Bewertung von BIM ist ein entscheidender Baustein dafür. Wir sehen oft, dass die Potenziale von BIM nicht voll ausgeschöpft werden, weil eine klare, strukturierte Betrachtung der Investition fehlt oder weil die Perspektiven der verschiedenen Beteiligten nicht ausreichend berücksichtigt werden – eine Lücke, die wir mit diesem Buch schließen.Wir gliedern die Investitionsrechnung entlang der Phasen des Gebäudelebenszyklus und beleuchten dabei gezielt die relevanten Kosten (die Anschaffung und das Erlernen des Umgangs mit diesem hochwertigen Werkzeug) und Nutzen (die Vorteile durch seine präzise und effiziente Anwendung) für die jeweils wichtigsten Stakeholder – Architekten, Ingenieure, Bauherren, Ausführende und Betreiber. Ziel ist es, Ihnen nicht nur die Methoden an die Hand zu geben, sondern auch durch konkrete Beispiele aufzuzeigen, wie Sie fundierte Entscheidungen über den Einsatz von BIM treffen können. Wir möchten Sie ermutigen, die Wirtschaftlichkeit von BIM genauso ernst zu nehmen wie die technische Implementierung. Möge dieser Leitfaden dazu beitragen, den Wert des "Digitalen Schweizer Messers" BIM transparent zu machen, seine erfolgreiche Anwendung zu fördern und die notwendige wirtschaftliche Professionalität in unsere Branche zu bringen.

Ein praxisnaher Leitfaden zur Investitionsrechnung entlang des Lebenszyklus einer Immobilie

The Competence Cage

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