Rating: 
Summary: Tip of the Hat to You Mr. Lebow and Mr. Spitzer
Review: This is a must read book if you are a CEO and you know where you are today is not where you should be or can be. If you feel your company is doing well but there is something missing, somewhere you need to be leading your company, you can sense it but you can't quite put your finger on it - read the BOOK! Here's why. As a CPA I have been helping business leaders take fresh looks at their businesses, transforming them from ordinary business to better businesses for over thirty years. I have guided them through policy & procedure redesign, reengineering, incentive pay design/pay for performance compensation planning, performance measurement design and benchmarking, balanced scorecard and more. These companies have improved their bottom line. But it has always resulted in the sacrifice of something else in the business and the results are hard to sustain. I believe the missing links are shared values,real accountability, and a work environment where employees are free to choose to be accountable and own their jobs. Those are the missing links necessary to transform organizational culture and turn ordinary businesses into extraordinary enterprises. Lebow and Spitzer have created a process based on their own research and that of other leading consultants and researchers. A process that can be duplicated in your business; no matter how large or small. A process that engages your employees; from line positions all the way to the top. Many researchers have found some of the links, identified the companies that have done it, know the elements that distinguish the great companies from good companies, but don't have all the pieces or a process to make the leap. In this book Lebow and Spitzer have really hit a home run!! The book's format is a refreshing narrative that tells the story of how the process works, why it works and who can make the leap. Every CEO, COO, CFO, division manager, plant manager, supervisor regardless of the industry, government agency or non profit organization should read this book. Your own organizational transformation may be as close as your choice to read the book - Accountability, Freedom and Responsibility Without Control. Without question, this is a book whose time has come.
Rating:
Summary: Accountability That Sticks
Review: What separates Lebow and Spitzer book from the rest is that it sticks with you. Is it true that experience is the best teacher? How many times have you read a book with seemingly good ideas, but the ideas never seem to get converted to the workplace? The unique dialogue in this book brings to life the characters in your world, including yourself. The way the book is written allows you to experience what the characters of the book are experiencing. And because you experience it, you own it. Everyday you can see the behaviors of the Lucys, the Yolandas and the Hanks of your organization. They are a real life reminder and a motivator to keep moving toward a freedom-based environment.
The story of the worker at NASA has broken the log jam amongst my co-workers. It was an experience that many could relate too and has energizes our organization to address the concepts and principles so eloquently expressed in this book. Thank you for the creative genius of Lebow and Spitzer and the style in which they present their material.
| 
