THE CHALLENGE OF HIDDEN PROFITS Reducing Corporate Bureaucracy And Waste By Mark Green and John F. Berry Morrow. 453 pp. $19.95. MAYBE THERE ARE A FEW FOLKS out there who still believe that big corporations actually are efficient, but the rest of us know otherwise. We know the truth. We’ve called the telephone company and gotten: 1) a busy
Used to be that managers were for baseball, not business. In the old days, American industry and finance were ruled by titans, czars, moguls, and robber barons. There are, sadly enough, few villains of this ilk in business anymore. They’ve been replaced by a new, and infinitely more respectable, breed of corporate executives. These managers scrutinize the balance sheet, tend to the bottom line, and, increasingly, see themselves as members of the Me Generation’s million-dollar club.