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Summary: Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful
Review: I think this is a wonderful book. I have read some of those other reviews and I believe that they are entirely wrong. This is a simple book, yes, but that is what I need. It is easy to understand and easy to apply. I tend to believe that the bashers are really competitors. Just an opinion of mine. Thanks Steve Page for this great book. I am buying 10 more for my team.Sam
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Summary: Lots of mashed potato - no meat
Review: I was disappointed by Steve Page's book and cannot share the rave reviews of other Amazon buyers. Despite making a strong case for adopting policies and procedures, the author devotes only one sentence each to their definition. No examples or exposition is given and the book goes on to treat the two as inseparable notions - the term "policies and procedures" must appear hundreds of times without individual treatment. What I really needed was a process model for analysing a business area to develop policy and procedure. This was entirely missing. That several pages are devoted to the selection of the binder, is evidence that this is a book for the simpleton. Further evidence is the author's tendency to state the obvious. On page 61 we are cautioned, "Careless spelling mistakes should be avoided". I suggest to intelligent people: avoid the book too
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Summary: Excellent Ideas, Excellent Thoughts
Review: If I were running a two-person business I would still find this book to shallw to have any value. The fact that the author claims that there is a set number of data elements that a policy needs to collect despite the situation is ridiculous. For someone looking to orgainze thousands of policies in a complex organization this book was completely useless. There are some other philosophies that I believe are completely off base. Like the idea that policies are related to your processes? Huh? Policies are supposed to dictate behavior, not process. What process is associated with the policy forbidding employees to limit personal phone calls? There are some other things in this book that are just plain funny. At the beginning of his book he lays out some conventions. He explains that throughout the book he will use "he" instead of "the more cumbersome he/she." Then in the same paragraph he states that he will use "President/CEO" to decsibe the head of the company. Why not just use CEO or President? Is it OK to alienate half the human race based upon sex, but not a handful of CEOs that don't want to be referred to as President?
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Summary: Too shallow to be helpful
Review: If I were running a two-person business I would still find this book to shallw to have any value. The fact that the author claims that there is a set number of data elements that a policy needs to collect despite the situation is ridiculous. For someone looking to orgainze thousands of policies in a complex organization this book was completely useless. There are some other philosophies that I believe are completely off base. Like the idea that policies are related to your processes? Huh? Policies are supposed to dictate behavior, not process. What process is associated with the policy forbidding employees to limit personal phone calls? There are some other things in this book that are just plain funny. At the beginning of his book he lays out some conventions. He explains that throughout the book he will use "he" instead of "the more cumbersome he/she." Then in the same paragraph he states that he will use "President/CEO" to decsibe the head of the company. Why not just use CEO or President? Is it OK to alienate half the human race based upon sex, but not a handful of CEOs that don't want to be referred to as President?
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Summary: Good for Beginners Only
Review: It is a well written and organized book. However, as the title states, "Establishing a System of Policies and Procedures", it's about creating a new system not improving an existing system of policies and procedures. It goes through all the basic steps of establishing a new system (including several paragraphs on the selection of the type of binders to store the documents). For those who already have a system in place, only half the book is useful. It's good to see if you have all the basics covered.
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Summary: Good, concise information
Review: Provides everything you need to know about why you should develop procedures; how to get started; and methods of gathering info and writing the procedures. Not many examples, but combined with his other procedures-related books, paints a complete picture.
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Summary: Daunting Task made Simple!
Review: Recently I was assigned the task of setting up a procedures and policies program at my company. Someone had mentioned Mr. Page's book, "7 Steps to Better Written Policies and Procedures". I noticed that he had a series of four books. I thought I would start with the first in the series, "Establishing a System of Policies and Procedures" to see if it would be of benefit to me. This is an amazing book. Mr. Page shows an easy way to write policies and procedure for printed and electronic company manuals. While he develops most of the book to printed policies and procedures and only two chapters to electronic manuals, he clearly points out that you must have a solid manual policies and procedures system before trying to set up a system of policies and procedures on a network or website. I found that if you understand your manual system that the conversion to a network-based system of policies and procedures is quite easy and straightforward. I plan on buying the complete set.
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Summary: Right on target
Review: Stephen Page's book is exactly what our company needed to help us reorganize and revise our policies and procedures manual. The book supplies an easy to follow system and the author provides rationale and suggestions which greatly enhance the useability of the book.
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Summary: An Excellent "Friendly" Guide to Policies and Procedures
Review: Steve uses an excellent "write as we speak" approach in portraying methods in writing effective corporate policies and procedures. This adds to a subject matter which can otherwise be dry and uninteresting. Of special note is Steve's use of examples, pitfalls, and approaches to concepts in which Steve has had obvious experience. This is a must read for HR personnel, especially those in pre-IPO companies hoping to support evolving corporate direction by educating employees with clear, concise instructions on their corporation's way of acomplishing internal and external goals and objectives.
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Summary: Greatest Writer Ever!
Review: Steve works for me and he is the best writer I have ever seen. He is so concise and yet detailed. I have recently read his book and that is exactly it, concise and detailed. He covers so many points useful to us all like how to do research, how to set up a successful writing format, how to do communications, a great chapter on training, and the Internet. I hope more buy his book. Patti
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