Gung Ho! Turn On the People in Any Organization

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Summary: great ideas to improve your business productivity
Review: the book Gung Ho! Turn On the People in Any Organization by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowels its a very good story about a business in crisis. I like the fact that the authors use animals to represent trends that workers should follow to be more efficient. Very good to pass time and read some fiction about economics. :)

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Summary: Simple ideas to motivate your people
Review: This book is easy to read and offers wholesome useful advice to those who want to motivate others. Having read all the best-selling business and self help books, I believe we have to incorporate Optimal Thinking into corporate culture, and hire and retain people who can make the commitment to be their best regardless of the circumstances. So I recommend Optimal Thinking--How To Be Your Best Self along with this book.

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Summary: Gung Ho, made me gung ho.
Review: This is the finest and most practical book I have read on leadership to date. Gung Ho is a book that will get you headed on the right track. As with all of Blanchard's books, Gung Ho takes you on a fun adventure into real leadership and management issues. Blanchard entertains you and teaches you a lesson at the same time. Being a management major at Webster University in St.Louis, Mo., I strongly recommend Gung Ho to both college students and business leaders.

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Summary: A little hokey, but good advice, although nothing new
Review: As always, a Ken Blanchard book takes less than an hour to read. Gung Ho! offers up basic management principles in a unique format, but its sentimentality wears thin.

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Summary: Amazing Book
Review: This book can definitely boost enthusiasm and performance for those who are committed to success. The story was simple yet powerful. The book contains alot of common sense and great ideas to use personally and in business. I will utilize what I have learned in this book because I want to continue to be successful. I enjoy where I work and the people I work with, reading this book will make me more enthusiastic, committed and setting goals for myself.

I would like to thank my leader for the opportunity to have read this book.

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Summary: More transparency required in the title
Review: I cannot be alone in thinking that a book called "Turn on the people in any organization" would give some useful tips on how to come across as an engaging and attractive fellow whom people would like to seduce. At the very least, it should suggest how to do "turn on" people in the sense of backstabbing - I mean, I am quite prepared to turn on my staff when cornered by senior management about why I haven't done something I said I would. (Needless to say, there are a few people reading these reviews who will know who I'm talking about.) But no. It means "to switch on" or "engage". It's fine so far as it goes, but it is going in the wrong direction for many.

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Summary: Deep concepts presented simply
Review: The concepts presented in this book aren't new or innovative, but the way they are presented is. I like the simplicity of the animal analogies: they're a great way to get the message across to our employees, who do not have a high level of education. I just wish there were a Spanish version. I'm having some trouble translating the title! "Extremely Enthusiastic" just doesn't have the same impact.

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Summary: Still Motivating After all these years
Review: I just recently re-read Gung Ho! and found it just as refreshing and motivating as when it first came out. Without giving the plot away, let's just say it's an easy-to-remember system that builds the foundation of an enthusiastic team geared to achieve more than they ever thought they could. Since I was the business leader and development manager on a memorable and exciting project, where everything just clicked, and our team was able to deliver a product that is outselling others of its class in record time, and against the disbelief of the other units, I have to say that it is a once-in-a-lifetime confluence of the stars (or the squirrels, beavers, and geese), that makes all of it happen. We will savor the 6 months when we started from scratch with guts and energy to deliver a product that others in our company called "We'll See...". What they saw was Gung Ho!

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Summary: Gung Hokey!
Review: Very sappy, manipulative management book that starts out with a death scene to soften you up, then takes you on a short trip from a plant facing closure to winning a national award in about 150 5"x8" pages about 1/2 full of 24 point type. Very lightweight. Your suspension of disbelief will last about 5 pages, unless you have been put under its corny spell like many reviewers seem to have been. If there is an "Andy" or "Peggy" I'll eat my hat. Here's a sample: "I love you, Andy" I choked out. "I know," he said. Then added, "I love you too. Always have."

Here's some more: "Oh, no, Andy. No," I protested. "It is you who have blessed me and everyone in the company."

Here's one more: "Peggy, I'm your father!" "Oh, Andy! I knew it! I loooove you!"
Oh wait, they didn't go quite that far. But damn close.

Save yourself from two hours of this soap opera and read "The Goal" instead.

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Summary: Gung Ho interesting yet not fascinating
Review: The book is good. Great for anyone interested in business, economics and/or management. I had to read it for an economics class. Thanks to its simplicity and clear message I was able to get through the book in no time flat.

There are already reviews here which outline the messages conveyed within and I don't intend to. The main character Peggy is put in charge of a plant and has to figure out ways to bring back revenue as well as employee confidence. In the end she is able to alter the way in which her factory workers or "team members", as the book reinforces, do their work and more importantly their effeciency and happiness. She did so with a system which is more human and less sterile than those of the old business practices. To sum up the system gave greater respect and knowledge to the employees concerning their purpose, goals and attainable aspirations.

Well let my tell you something I've been a "team member" of a large entertainment company. I was a drone though they made me feel like I was vital to the place. They babbled on about values and goals, well you know what I was still parking goddamn cars. However through knowing exactly my purpose, and the possible effects I could have on the company and therefore myself I was motivated. This system which Peggy invented is very worthwhile and should be applied to modern day business practice. Let me tell you something though, I would never go back to that job. I will never work a routine job like that again. It takes no brain power and drains all your energy for measley wages. I'd rather sit homeless on the streets then be sucked into thinking I was working for the greater good in exchange for minimum wage. Only you can decide what a greater good is and for me it's not working in a parking lot or working in a factory. Honestly I don't believe these jobs are suitable for semi-intelligent human beings and that's my biggest outrage over the message.