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Summary: Great Ideas
Review: businessThink is teeming with fantastic ideas on how to succeed in today's volatile corporate environment. It provides a great methodology for approaching decision-making as a team, breaking down hierarchies, and discovering your personal leadership capabilities.
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Summary: Another Dumb Business Book Destined For The Bargin Bin
Review: The premise here is that there is only one way to think about business. Hahahah Give me a break!!! Here we have a book that is all about marketing and salesmanship. A catchy title, neat colors on the cover and the blurbs on the back all say buy me. But what is not as cleaver is what is on the inside. It is the same old stuff that one thousand business books have said before. How boring!!! How dumb!! Think about that one will ya.
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Summary: Stop procrastinating and read this book
Review: This book gets to the critical issues of why people make stupid business decisions. The book has very powerful content and practical ideas--I highly recommend it.
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Summary: It's about time for some common sense business thinking
Review: As a person working with many senior and mid level managers, I appreciate the common sense(not common practice) thinking this book offers. It's amazing to me how quickly people jump to "solution" without slowing down to consider some fundamental questions that a good business person would ask. I only wish that more of the people I deal with would work from this approach - get away from their ego's and personal agendas and start working a process to arrive at conclusions that are based on sound logic and effective dialogue. These are tools I'll definitely apply. Well done Marcum and Smith.
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Summary: Thinking differently
Review: Through eight simple rules, I learned not only how to do business differently, but how to see business differently-to think in a way that maximizes the innate resourcefulness of everyone I lead. The book is especially useful to those whose jobs demand constant creativity and innovation.
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Summary: The game of business for people in the real world
Review: BusinessThink is a refreshing approach to addressing issues we deal with at work every single day. The authors say it like it is -- no holds barred -- and challenge the reader to drop the ego, take responsibility, and step up to the plate for yourself, your team, and your organization. Relevant assessments, exercises, and applications make the content viral for the suits in finance, that wacky creative team and the techies alike. As a GenXer stuck in mid-management, i enjoyed the in-your-face, down to earth writing that is so different from the business books we were forced to read in graduate school. I'm certain my boomer colleagues will find BusinessThink powerful as well.
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Summary: 8 Rules to Success
Review: At last a logical, engaging, book that keeps you glued to the pages--leading you to conclusions and ideas that will definitely lead to SUCCESS in the business place. So complex, and yet so simple. Why doesn't business do what the authors advocate? Because it makes such common sense...that's why! Any business manager, business student, business mentor, or business expert needs to read this book--your thought processes, decision making, and track record will all improve.
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Summary: Where's the Beef?
Review: I agree with the previous reviewer - this book amounts to a marketing shill and nothing more. To paraphrase the commercial from the 80's - "Where's the Beef?"
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Summary: And action without thought?
Review: Spells disaster, especially in business. Of course, Gates thought long and hard about how he was going to monopolize the entire industry, don't be silly. Course that's a conversation for another day. Here's why I thought Business Think was an awesome tool: The idea was that we're all a part of the sum, each a valuable piece of the result is huge. Its something most companies don't get and won't employ in turn alienating employees from a sense owernship and the desire to produce quality work. To apply this in business could change the face of it. The idea that we're working together towards common goals, towards defining those goals and streamlining the process is very powerful. The ego (which runs most biz) is qualified here but not engaged, this is also huge! Business Think turns towards the community or village approach of inclusive, creative success as opposed to the "You vs. I," or "Us vs. Them" mentality, both which splinter the individual, the organization and its opportunities for success. Business Think gives hard and fast rules and techniques about how to change your approach "now" as well as avoid other's drama that has nothing to do with forward movement of current goals (biz is inundated with this [stuff].) Again, potent medicine! As a manager, I found it most valuable and will encourage all my fellow teammates to read it. Healthy stuff which the business world is in dire need of-- (hi Enron) Doh!
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Summary: Relevant
Review: This book comes from practical experience and an expert knowledge base and provides a framework for understanding the complexity of business from the people side. It is a methodology for gaining the ability to understand the whole system and how different parts impact the whole...blending the business side and the people side. I have gained tremendously from the principles taught in this book.
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