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Summary: It's the Supply Chain, Stupid!
Review: A listener-friendly audio-cassette emphasizing the need to beaware of the entire supply chain, to recognize interdependenciesbetween you, your suppliers and your customers, and to take to heart that seemingly innocuous changes can have supply chain-wide impacts due to inherent (and changeable) systemic structural constraints. Minor downside: perhaps a bit repititious at times. Nevetheless, I strongly recommend this audio-cassette.
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Summary: Powerful!
Review: As an aspiring school administrator, I bought this CD because I kept hearing Senge's name come up time and time again in the change literature. Listening to the CDs, I felt both inspired and englightened ... suddenly, all that I had read, learned, and experienced about change began to make sense. Situations where change had been foiled, colleagues had been "frozen," and reforms failed began to make sense thanks to Senge's framework. Best of all, I feel as though I have a strategy to ensure that future reform efforts are more effective, rather than destined for failure.The CD is a mixture of both a professional reader and Senge himself. Both are lively, however, and you will find yourself returning to their words time and time again for answers.
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Summary: Great for Introducing Systems Thinking to Business People
Review: Thinking about how one thing affects another either comes naturally to you or it doesn't. For most people it is the latter. For these people, The Fifth Discipline is a wonderful gift. Our emotions tell us to do one thing, and that one thing is usually not in our own best interest. I had heard clients of mine talk about the beer game, and I was delighted to see it described in this book. For the average reader, this book will make you expert enough in systems thinking to be much more successful with your decisions. If you feel that you would like more help in this area, please read The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook. It is a very helpful companion book that will give you practical advice for implementing what you learn in this book. If you have colleagues or friends who often make decisions that do not turn out well, it may be because they do not understand how to think about business as a system. Give them this book, and you will have done the person a great favor. Follow-up by discussing what they have learned, and help them with an exercise or two from the Fieldbook. You'll be glad you did.
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Summary: Powerful!
Review: This book is probably one of the most impressive books I've read in a long time. I had the book on CD, which made the first example given (about systems thinking) much more easy to get through. Even so, I would suggest this to anyone, even if you're managing a 'family'. The research is sound, and the concepts are right on. I also have read the accompanying fieldbook, and I would state that perhaps the fieldbook might give you a good place to start if you feel this book comes across as "too scholarly". But ultimately both are a must read!
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Summary: A diamond in the rough
Review: This book is probably one of the most impressive books I've read in a long time. I had the book on CD, which made the first example given (about systems thinking) much more easy to get through. Even so, I would suggest this to anyone, even if you're managing a 'family'. The research is sound, and the concepts are right on. I also have read the accompanying fieldbook, and I would state that perhaps the fieldbook might give you a good place to start if you feel this book comes across as "too scholarly". But ultimately both are a must read!
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