Driving Excellence: How The Aggregate System Turned Microchip Technology from a Failing Company to a Market Leader

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

SECTION ONE: The Microchip Story—Applying the Aggregate System.

1. Microchip: Before and After.

SECTION TWO: The Aggregate System.

2. The Aggregate System: Driving Excellence and Continuous Improvement.

3. The Ten Key Elements of the Aggregate System.

SECTION THREE: The Foundations of a Values-Based, Highly Empowered, Continuous-Improvement-Oriented Culture.

4. How Cultures Evolve.

5. Rules-Based versus Values-Based Cultures.

6. Systems Thinking.

7. The Six Principles of Building a Merit-Based, Variable, Total Compensation System.

8. How Managers Become Barriers.

9. Discovering the Origins of Behavior and Job Performance.

10. The Weakness Principle.

11. The Human Change Process.

12. The Transformation of Charlie Campbell.

SECTION FOUR: Building the Aggregate System.

13. Strategic Formula.

14. Selecting Your Core Values.

15. Policies and Procedures: Establishing the Rules.

16. Management Practices.

17. Human Systems: Backbone of the Culture.

18. Performance Appraisals.

19. Employee Practices and Assessing the Culture.

Summation.

Index.

About the Authors.