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Category Archives: Book Reviews
The 6 New Management Imperatives by Bruce Temkin – comments
Bruce Temkin has published a free book on his blog[[1]], The 6 New Management Imperatives – Leadership Skills for a Radically Changed Business Environment. Mr. Temkin sets out to define a “new set of skills” for managers. These are the … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Business structure, Functional Skills, Operations, People, Strategy/Planning
Tagged bruce temkin, business processes, customers, Deming, Drucker, EFQM, empowerment, high performance, high performance organization, leadership skills, management, management principles, Marketing/Sales, Productivity, senior managers, strategic plan, Toyota Production System, TPS
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Book Review – 12 The Elements of Great Managing and Making These Actionable
The Gallup Organization has been publishing books on management and high performance organizations regularly for quite some time. The encouraging elements in all of them are that they are based on real data from real people about real work. I … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Business structure, Functional Skills, People, Quality System
Tagged 12 The Elements of Great Managing, baldrige national quality program, EFQM, high performance organization, human resources, iso 9000 standards, James K. harter, Lean, lean principles and practices, People, Rodd Wagner, strength
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Podcast – Getting Things Done by David Allen – a revisit
A revisit to David Allen’s book, Getting Things Done. Get stuff out of your head, follow the two minute rule, file things away, work strategically and tactically. A Revisit to David Allen’s Book, Getting Things Done:
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Learning To Be Effective – comments on Kelley’s How To Be a Star At Work
Learning to be an effective manager is almost entirely a self-guided learning enterprise. Almost no business schools even approach the topic despite the hundreds of courses they offer on almost every functional aspect of management[[1]] No Significant Differences between Stars … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Change Management, Integrity, People, Productivity, Strength
Tagged bell labs, business problems, business schools, collective efforts, effective manager, henry mintzberg, high performance organization, management, management development, performance, problem solving, problem solving skills, raw intelligence, robert e kelley, strategies
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Getting Things Done by David Allen – a revisit
I have used David Allen’s book, Getting Things Done: the art of stress-free productivity (Penguin: NY 2001) both personally and with clients for a number of years. Recently I volunteered to lead a discussion of the book’s approach to personal … Continue reading
Are You Afraid of Your Financial Statements?
I picked up this little book, Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements – the search for the company with durable competitive advantage (Scribner: New York, 2008), thinking that I might learn something valuable about the current economic mess … Continue reading
Podcast – Multitasking, Too Much Information, Interruptions and High Performance
Multitasking is worse than a myth; it is a fraud and a thief. Other lessons learned
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Posted in Book Reviews, Podcasts, Productivity
Tagged business managers, crenshaw, David Crenshaw, Goldratt, high performance, inefficiencies, management, multitasking, owner, People, Productivity
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Multitasking, Too Much Information, Interruptions, and High Performance
Last week I ran into a little book (it really is little, 135 pages in a 5″ x 7″ format – very easy on the hand and eye), The Myth of Multitasking: How “Doing It All” Gets Nothing Done by … Continue reading
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Tagged accountability, business coach, business coaching, business managers, ceo, management skills, owner, President, responsibility, results
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Manias, Panics, and Crashes: a history of financial crises – book review
I originally wrote this review in 2004. Seems like a good moment to pass it along again. Manias, Panics, and Crashes: a history of financial crises, fourth edition by Charles P. Kindleberger (New York: Wiley 2000) A recent Wall St … Continue reading