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Summary: Apply PM with appropriate measurement and doubled output.
Review: This book describes a process that if implemented properly can have a dramatic impact on you organization. The book is easy to read and understand. There is an over emphasis on B.F. Skinner, consequences and positive reinforcement that is necessary to help manager develop new skills. The new skill is catching people doing the right things and telling them about it. By unleashing this process in an engineering drafting department the throughput more than doubled, projects are delivered complete the first time 98% of the time, and target dates are met or delivered early. The process works. Some people do this naturally, but many of us are so focused on results we forget that people attain those results for us. Some day every manager will manage this way.
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Summary: Insightful!
Review: This book packs a lot of content into 208 pages. Aubrey C. Daniels is not afraid to challenge some popular management theories. He even mentions in his preface that "human performance has been trivialized by many books, the popular press and management folklore. The author uses behavioral analysis as an approach to managing people. This systematic, data-focused method is concerned with measurable results, not subjective qualities like "improved teamwork" or "better employee morale." We at getAbstract.com recommend this book for managers who are interested in initiating change in a precise controlled fashion.
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Summary: Weak! Weak! Weak!
Review: This book was very weak. The author is weak, the people who have already reviewed this book are weak and whoever is reading this review right now is weak.
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Summary: Problem-solving for managers
Review: This latest edition of "Bringing Out the Best in People" includes important new applications to business problems. It begins with an explanation of why traditional management methods are so costly and then lays out an alternative, which truly brings out the best in people. This approach is exactly what managers need to get the results they want, while at the same time, building the kind of organization where people want to contribute. Managers learn a step by step process for getting those results.
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Summary: Outstanding treatise on how to work with people!
Review: Whether you are implementing a behavioral safety process or need to address morale/production concerns at work or just want to get your teenagers to clean their room, this book is for you! One of the best guides on how to motivate people to achieve. This doesn't deal with manipulation - on the contrary. The book shows how to apply positive reinforcement to get a person or organization to where they want to be.
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Summary: Problems with Treating People as Pigeons
Review: While this book has some very useful information, it does a dis-service to the business community as a whole by re-iterating the treat-people-as-mechanical-objects to be Reinforced, Rewarded in order to achieve maximum efficiency. Much has been written by others outlining the detrimental effects of applying Behavioral strategies as FACTS to people. Yes, we associate things, link actions and can respond to rewards or incentives, yet many companies have scrapped plans based on strict behavioral principles as they have had substantial drawbacks and negative effects. See books by Alfie Kohn who summarizes the research nicely. I don't think you Bring Out The Best in People by a precise pattern of rewards or punishments - you may buy short term control but this is not how you achieve maximium efficiency or for that matter a healthy work environment. People need to feel a part of what's going on around them, to share in the profits of their labor, to feel their life and their work have MEANING. You do not achieve this by a strict application of behavioral principles.
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Summary: The most "a-ha" moments I've had in a long time
Review: Wow - This book, if you are willing to listen, will help you become aware of what is going on around you. At least, it did for me. Every couple of pages, I found myself saying "oh .. oh yes.. of course!" If nothing else, this book made me realize that I'm not crazy nor am I alone; that my environment, particularly the standard salary compensation system, really is de-motivating. No wonder I and so many others often struggle with procrastination! The concepts are explained very well and he does a very nice job drawing out the implications to specific examples that most readers will immediately relate to. This book was one of the most satisfying reads I've had in a long time.
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Summary: The most "a-ha" moments I've had in a long time
Review: Wow - This book, if you are willing to listen, will help you become aware of what is going on around you. At least, it did for me. Every couple of pages, I found myself saying "oh .. oh yes.. of course!" If nothing else, this book made me realize that I'm not crazy nor am I alone; that my environment, particularly the standard salary compensation system, really is de-motivating. No wonder I and so many others often struggle with procrastination! The concepts are explained very well and he does a very nice job drawing out the implications to specific examples that most readers will immediately relate to. This book was one of the most satisfying reads I've had in a long time.
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