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Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense, Low-Cost Approach to Management 15 reviews
Masaaki Imai
McGraw-Hill, 1997
Brief and to the Point
+ Go to Gemba in Software Development
+ Gemba -- Place where action happens
+ Insightful!
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The Leadership Challenge, Third Edition 76 reviews
James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
Jossey-Bass, 2002
Great Leadership Book
+ Leadership in Business
+ Excellent Book Review Comments
My coworker recommended this book to me, and it's one of the best leadership/management books I've ever read. There's great practical advice and teaches you how to treat your staff, coworkers, managers like human beings while still being an effective leader. I highly recommend this book for people ...
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Wharton on Dynamic Competitive Strategy15 reviews
Wiley, 1997
Strategy research from the world's top business school
+ A bag of everything
+ A Rigorous, Comprehensive, and Stunning Achievement
+ Very useful reference in the market.
+ A well-chosen set of essays
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Decision Traps: The Ten Barriers to Decision-Making and How to Overcome Them 11 reviews
Edward Russo
Fireside, 1990
Too much belief in personal judgment
+ Excellent book on decision making
+ I loved this simple book about the process behind good decisions
+ Practical and Insightful, In a newer version
+ A simple but high value management tool book
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Re-Creating the Corporation: A Design of Organizations for the 21st Century5 reviews
Russell L. Ackoff
Oxford University Press, USA, 1999
Organizational Design to Apply The Fifth Discipline
+ Truly Ackoff's Best
+ "There are no simple solutions to complex problems".
+ Highly Readable and Very Articulate
+ Highly Readable and Very Articulate
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Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions44 reviews
John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney, ...
Harvard Business School Press, 1998
Accessible and practical--the best guide to making decisions
+ Packaged decision making
+ Dull reading at times, but still a "smart choice"
+ Wise Decision Making
+ Perfect Choice
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The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization84 reviews
Peter M. Senge
Doubleday Business, 2006
Seminal Work
+ The Fifth Discipline
+ Excellent!
+ Don't Become Road Kill!
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Managing for the Short Term: The New Rules for Running a Business in a Day-to-Day World12 reviews
Chuck Martin
Doubleday Business, 2002
Book far better than the title
+ Right On The Money
+ Like talking directly to the C-Suite
+ A Great Practical Guide For Success In Business
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Balanced Scorecard Step-by-Step: Maximizing Performance and Maintaining Results23 reviews
Paul R. Niven
Wiley, 2002
High Marks for a Balance Scorecard
+ An excellent tool for those intangibles
+ Janet Z's reveiw
+ Excellent insight into the practical aspects of BSC
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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done 233 reviews
Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, ...
Crown Business, 2002
It's a must read for CEOs
+ Insights into Execution as a Discipline & System
+ A "Must Read" for Executives
+ Obviously if you're going to get things done, you gotta "execute" them...
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The Ten-Day MBA: A Step-By-step Guide To Mastering The Skills Taught In America's Top Business Schools69 reviews
Steven A. Silbiger
Collins Business, 1999
Great Business Theory Overview..And a lot cheaper than an MBA!
+ solid, helpful, a little dry
+ looks like a great read
+ Excellent book
+ thank u!!
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Toyota Production System: An Integrated Approach to Just-In-Time1 review
Yasuhiro Monden
Engineering & Management Press, 1998
The nuts and bolts of how JIT works.
With all of the recent attention to "Lean Manufacturing" (Womak, The Machine That Changed The World, Lean Thinking), this book, now in its third edition, is different. Rather than telling you how to implement the Toyota Production System, Monden gives the reader a comprehensive technical ...
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Successful Intelligence: How Practical and Creative Intelligence Determine Success in Life15 reviews
Robert Sternberg
Plume, 1997
Excellent discussion of the issues
+ An Holistic Approach to Intelligence
First, I should mention something of my own background. My academic background is in psychometrics and also neurobiology, where I did my master's and doctoral work. Sternberg is mostly preaching to the choir with me, as I agree with many of his criticisms about the deficiencies of current and past ...
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Competing for the Future35 reviews
Gary Hamel, C. K. Prahalad
Harvard Business School Press, 1996
Don't be a bug on the windshield!
+ quite easily one of the best works in strategy
+ Still relevant
+ good book
+ Don't Ignore the Lessons in this Book...
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Lean Thinking : Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, Revised and Updated50 reviews
James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, ...
Free Press, 2003
Very readable look at "Lean Thinking"
+ Lean principles & theory... this is not a guide or handbook
+ Becoming Lean and Mean!
+ A classic, must read
+ Eye-opening!
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businessThink: Rules for Getting It Right–Now, and No Matter What!47 reviews
Dave Marcum, Steve Smith, ...
Wiley, 2002
How to get things done!
+ A framework for decisions
+ Finally, a book for the real world!
I loved this book. As a manager in a large company I've found that it can be difficult to deal with all of the politics, games, and ego's that are part of my daily routine. Business Think provides a methodology for dealing with all of the bull that goes on in business. It also gave me a good ...
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The Art and Discipline of Strategic Leadership4 reviews
Mike Freedman
McGraw-Hill, 2002
A well-crafted book on strategic formulation, with good case studies!
+ Good book, but it could have been better
+ Effective Strategic Thinking
I have always been impressed by the work of the Kepner-Tregoe team because their methodologies really work.
My first encounter with their work was the mastering - and application - of their Problem Solving & Decision Making (PSDM)strategies in the late 70's/early 80's, while I was a practising ...
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Profit Beyond Measure: Extraordinary Results through Attention to Work and People6 reviews
H. Thomas Johnson, Anders Broms
Free Press, 2000
The Book the Business World Has Been Waiting for
+ Tom Johnson, financial heretic!
+ 20th Century Manufacturing Illuminated
+ At last, a vision of capitalism with heart
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Beyond Strategic Vision, Effective Corporate Action With Hoshin Planning5 reviews
Michael Cowley, Ellen Domb
Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997
Excellent hands on book about hoshin
+ Aligning lean principles with strategic intent
+ Beyond Strategic Vision by Michael Cowley and Ellen Domb
+ Discover the secret of deploying company strategies
+ Strategic Planning Made Easy
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't705 reviews
Jim Collins
Collins Business, 2001
For hiring managers, and those looking for leaders
+ "Good to Great" an exceptional leadership reference
+ A good look at what companies can do to manage talent
+ Good to Great
+ Good to Great review
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