The Soul of a New Machine
By Tracy Kidder
Modern Library
© 1981, 1997
ISBN: 0679602615
Book excerpt
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What business leaders say about "The Soul of a New Machine":
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I recommend reading 'Human Side of Enterprise' and 'Soul of a New Machine' simultaneously;
they complement each other beautifully. Winner of the prestigious National Book Award in 1982,
Kidder's book portrays the dynamics of high-performance work teams and Theory Y management at
its best by telling the true story of a project team working with limited resources to design a
new computer in less than a year.
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This classic reports the experiences of a product-development team at Data General
as they struggled
to create the next generation of computer. Kidder captured the challenges,
frustrations, and joyful triumphs associated with the development of significantly
new products in a way that no research study of new-product development could ever
match.
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