Along with corporate marketing techniques, it was a particularly corporate view of reality that he put in the service of the Clintons.
Aggressive corporate marketing techniques are becoming more acceptable, according to Ben Cameron, executive director of the Theater Communications Group, a national organization for nonprofit professional theaters based in New York City.
A fascinating essay by JoAnne Yates describes the interplay between the development of corporate management techniques and the evolution of devices to record, store and analyse information.
Instead of moving their headquarters offshore, many companies are simply placing patents on drugs, ownership of corporate logos, techniques for manufacturing processes and other intangible assets in tax havens, tax lawyers say.
"But it turned out to be a brilliant and inspired thing to use rigid corporate improvement techniques in a patient model because there are many things we do that are repetitive, and that we could standardize".
William C. Thompson Jr., the board president, said that while the search would focus on school administrators, it would extend to candidates with business backgrounds because the board wanted to experiment with corporate management techniques.
The first wave consisted of the new public management (NPM), as advocated by neoliberals; these reforms were attempts to increase the role of markets and of corporate management techniques in the public sector.
The mixologist Dale DeGroff, author of "The Craft of the Cocktail Clarkson Potterer, 2002), worked with Marriott to develop its cocktail program, but found challenges with putting in place on a broader corporate scale techniques he honed at places like the Rainbow Room in New York City.
