{"product_id":"nobody-ever-asked-before","title":"Nobody Ever Asked Before","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA worker suggested moving a machine six inches. It changed everything.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNobody Ever Asked Before\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a multigenerational business novel that traces the arc of participative management from the 1927 Hawthorne experiments to a modern-day factory transformation in Syracuse, New York, and into the era of artificial intelligence.\u003cbr\u003eIt is a story about what happens when organizations stop treating workers as problems to be managed and start treating them as partners in creating value. Grounded in real experience and nearly a century of management research, this novel traces the forgotten lineage of an idea that American business keeps rediscovering and keeps forgetting: the people doing the work already know how to make it better.\u003cbr\u003eThrough vivid characters, from a factory-floor philosopher to a boardroom adversary, from a pioneering female quality engineer to the ghost of Frederick Taylor, this novel dramatizes the principles of continuous improvement and the human stakes of organizational change: the courage it takes to listen, the resistance that rises when power is shared, and the extraordinary results that follow when people are truly empowered.\u003cbr\u003eAt a time when many corporate transformations fail, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNobody Ever Asked Before\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e reveals why and shows what’s possible when leaders finally ask the question that changes everything.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Moffittpress","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51275987124509,"sku":"9798995397700","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9798995397700.jpg?v=1778625060","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/nobody-ever-asked-before","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}