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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: Empty fluff
Review: I always read the books I buy right through. This one was really tough to finish. I bought the book because of the Stephen Covey endorsement but I was very disappointed. Perhaps it was the picture of the young (and green) looking authors that tainted my thinking ("how much could they know?") but there was little or no substance. No depth. Nothing powerful or memorable. Examples seemed to be restricted to their own business failings. The most annoying thing was the "BusinessThink" references right through as if they had invented this type of thinking. What a waste of time.
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Summary: Strategy development in real time
Review: I am reading BusinessThink and believe it is one of the best business books I have ever read. The authors have created a framework that takes the best of what I learned in business school and integrated it into a step by step process to create a cohesive strategy. Many people that I work with belive that business strategy is a process of jumping off a cliff and then making the best of it. Instead the authors offer a structured, sound, and real-time decision framework that is rigourous by being data driven and flexible enough to recognize that there is more to success than data. Using thier approach will make a business executive more successful.
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Summary: Like the Special Edition of a DVD, without the special
Review: I bought this book becuase I read Lets Get Real or Lets Not Play by Mahan Khalsa and was very intruiged by it. Lets Get Real is a TERRIFIC book. Little did I know that BusinessThink is basicly the coles notes version of Lets Get Real with two other names plunked above his. There is little additional value added here. If you want to get the same material but more of it and better presented, buy Lets Get Real.
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Summary: A rehash of a better book
Review: I guess that the fact that the third author in this book is Mahan Khalsa is because it is a rehash of his materials. These two authors don't seem very creative and most everything covered in the book is Mahan's. Mahan's name is in smaller print in the book than Marcum and Smith when it should have been the other way around.
I am surprised that the Franklin Covey corporation has authorized this book.
With that said, the book has some good ideas that could be of value although they must not be easy to implement since the authors have not helped their company, Franklin Covey become profitable as reported in a USA Today article.
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Summary: Good to Great¿People
Review: I just read Jim Collin's Good to Great a few months ago. His book is a brilliant treatment on how companies can become great, and ultimately that means having great people "on the bus." This book seems to focus on how, day-by-day, hour-by-hour, you can become great personally to be ready for any "bus." There are obviously more than only eight rules for getting it right, but the rules of these authors seem to be the basic, indispensable foundation.
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Summary: nothing there
Review: I listened to this whole thing on a long drive,
and I've NEVER experienced a business book with less in it. This is a bunch of sanctimonious ranting and raving and quasi-religious Utah-based moralizing dressed up as business tools. The irony is that there is no real thinking occurring in this book that seeks to make thinking sacred.
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Summary: How to get things done!
Review: I loved this book. As a manager in a large company I've found that it can be difficult to deal with all of the politics, games, and ego's that are part of my daily routine. Business Think provides a methodology for dealing with all of the bull that goes on in business. It also gave me a good outline to make better decisions and be able to determine the things that I should be doing from those things that I could be doing.
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Summary: Practical Approach for Working Better with My Team
Review: I picked businessThink up at the Atlanta airport about 2 weeks ago and read it on flights. Good, fresh, practical stuff. The leave the ego at the door rule really struck home as did the move off the solution. In the past, I've prided myself on how quickly I could slap a solutions on a problem. I've been addicted to speed for speed sake. Solving quickly is so tempting. I like the objectivity, curiousity, and the completeness the 8 rules help create. I particularly appreciate the specific examples in each chapter of how to apply the concepts and ideas being presented, right down to how to use this stuff in day-to-day business dicussions. I'm having all of my team read this so we can work with this common framework so we get it right. I'm also trying to apply these ideas at home with my family. Thanks and good luck!
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Summary: Right on the mark
Review: I picked up businessThink in the Chicago Airport two days ago and just finished it. A GREAT read and probably the most relevant business book I've read in the last couple of years. I finished the book with a much better understanding of why many of the projects I'm working on right now aren't moving quicker. I also have a better understanding of why my team is struggling with what their area of focus should be. As stated in the book, the difference is huge between what we absolutley "should" be working on vs. just what we "could" be working on. This was probably my greatest take away from the book. I highly recommend it.
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