Guild Wars

Stephens set about reconciling these two approaches was to start to reposition the culture. Developing a more open and participative style of decision-making made the whole team focus on the business outcomes, minimising any point-scoring and turf wars that might have happened – and it would appear to have worked. In many ways, what we now seem to have is a new breed of ownermanager, very much a product of the ways in which our working world is changing. These are the main drivers: • • • •

that the laws concerning the English patent system did not change between 1624 and 1835, the number of patents granted in 1692 of more than 20 was not exceeded before 1766, when 31 patents were granted. Causing this inventive activity in 1692 were the wars which William III fought in Ireland and France and which stimulated certain industries.4 It was not before the creation of a nation-wide market in the UK and the establishment of large scale industrial production that the value of exclusivity in the