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Summary: Lesson for Software Development Folks, Too!
Review: There's little I can add beyond the accolades and recommendations, but I am registering my positive endorsement of this book to software development managers. Mitchell and Coles offer lessons we often must remind ourselves, especially when managing demanding projects with a tight timeline. Too often projects become disasters because of knee jerk reactions that lead to the "quick fix." The first half of the book is a must read for anyone in the industry from a philosophical viewpoint. Every software development manager can relate to the metaphors offered. The second half of the book is equally valuable in terms of team work and focused management.
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Summary: Capturing & using the power of inexorable external forces!
Review: This is a thoughtful and thought-provoking book that examines the nature of irresistible growth enterprises-those able to routinely employ the momentum of inexorable external forces, such as technology advances and shifts in markets. Such agile organizations can use these forces as tailwinds (sources of power or energizers) for creating and implementing 2.000 percent solutions-ones that produce 20 times or more the benefit or speed of the run-of-the-mill variety. Mitchell and Coles, authors of "The 2,000 Percent Solution," explain that to benefit from irresistible forces an organization must ALIGN itself with them (like a pivoting windmill with the wind), break itself of bad thinking habits that block or evade action (discussed in considerable depth), and, using an eight-step process (a chapter is devoted to each step) replace these hobbling habits of the mind with desirable, action-oriented ones. In a nutshell, the challenge is to (1) identify, anticipate, adapt to, and, in some instances, create irresistible forces; (2) learn to flexibly align to them; and (3) develop capabilities to strengthen the enterprises's power to act. Lively, highly readable, well constructed, insightful content make this a most valuable book. Highly recommended.
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