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Summary: Tweeking the Golden Rule
Review: Long live talented individual contributors, creative people who orbit the hairball and managers who like to do what they do ! This book extoles the wonders and potential of human resource development in organizations of all sizes. However, in a Catholic healthcare organization, we don't break the Golden Rule, we bend it ! (smile)
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Summary: It's about time!
Review: What a book! It highlights the significant role "people" play in driving the success of an organization! It also highlights the need for helping great - talented people be the best they can be by providing great managers to turn "talent into lasting performance." I have told everyone about this book! The ten managers I work with are all reading it and it is the daily topic of our conversations!
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Summary: A wonderful book!
Review: Finally a book that brings about a focus on the traditional unsung hero's of great companies - MANAGERS! Like the book points out clearly, people join companies, but they leave managers. I can also see how bad managers or as the authors point out "low talent" managers would take offense at these revolutionary discoveries. No offense intended, but if you don't like this book, you should re-examine the match between your own talents and the role you are in. If these priciples cause you to stir or object, please realize the damage you are doing to others within your workplace. Great BOOK!
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Summary: Echo from the past
Review: These tapes are a doomed attempt to revive a social system of casts : managers and the rest of us. It is so intrinsically 'old british' and antic that I cannot believe those tapes are ment to be a management tool. I believe they are made for students in the fields of psychology and history as a warning.... Long live free speach (!) and well,.. America.
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Summary: First, don't waste your money.
Review: Second, don't waste your time reading this book
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Summary: Work for them and see for yourself.
Review: This book was published once before under the name of "Soar With Your Strengths". This is the second 100 page + brochure selling Gallup's selection products.
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Summary: yet another management book
Review: I only own two books. The other one is The Bible. This book is required reading at my business. We enjoy reading about how to manage excellent people. Since our people are so good at what they do, as long as we leave them alone, they do a great job, and I can afford to put high octane gas in my Lexus. It also gives me a lot of time to read other revolutionary management books.To me, management books are the essense of life. I have read hundreds of them. My favorite three are: 1) First, Break All the Rules 2) First, Break All the Rules 3) First, Break All the Rules
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Summary: I asked my boss to ready my copy.
Review: I wish they wouldn't give great books cute names. There is really nothing in here about breaking all the rules; there is simply a little bit about how to do some things differently and a lot of common sense about how to do things right. The first and most useful need of great managers is to hire the right people. Makes sense to me! Then align aspirations of employees with the needs of the organization. Oh, and by the way, you can't change people. READ THIS. READ THIS. READ THIS. If you do, you will spend much more of your management time more enjoyably and less wastefully.
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Summary: Clear, concise, insightful and MUST READ!
Review: Refreshing! Buckinham and Coffman have brought forth with extreme clarity the "new thinking" of the 21st century as it relates to managers and the workplace. It is about time we have updated our old "industrial" management paradigm to the new knowledge based economy. Thank you, I have purchused 25 for my friends and collegues.
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Summary: an empirical articulation of the corporate, human experience
Review: I don't usually like these types of books, but since this study was based on pure empirical data gathering, not some touchy-feely self-improvement empty theories and other assorted bulls**t, it was a real engaging read which I finished in one sitting. It is not only recommended for managers, but also for the ones they manage. I was able to apply almost every word to my own personal experiences, and, consequently and happily understand why I respond the way I do to my managers, why sometimes I flourish, i.e. when I feel that I love my job . . . and why sometimes I feel that my wings are being clipped and feel like quitting. This book articulated the trees into the perspective of a forest, one in which I now feel renewed with empowerment, the empowerment of understanding.
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