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Put the most advanced training practices available today to work for your organization. In this guidebook, a number of researchers and practitioners combine the often unshared breakthroughs from a number of training disciplines into a single set of principles and guidelines that you can use to implement and maintain a state-of-the-art training program. Learn the best practices and most current developments in strategic planning and needs assessment, training design and media selection, training delivery, transfer of training and training evaluation, long-term maintenance of leading programs within organizations, and more!
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Great book merging theory and practice.......2004-08-17
This book compiles that latest in Training & Development theories with some very practical applications. It's a good book for academicians and practitioners as well.
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When a manager establishes a friendly yet productive working atmosphere, the benefits to the whole organization are substantial. The Art of Managing People provides practical strategies, guidelines and techniques for
* Developing the interpersonal skills necessary to improve relations with employees
* Understanding the differences between people, and behaving accordingly
* Assessing, and then improving, current working situations
* Creating trust between managers and employees.
Person-to-person skills are the key to developing an effective team of satisfied, energetic workers. Letting your workers express their own personalities and maximize their potentials will
* Reduce stress within the work force,
* Create a positive spirit throughout the company, and
* Increase the organization's productivity and profitability.
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Too much like a pre-education college class.......2007-06-11
This book talks about interpersonal skills and personality styles in a textbook-like format. The content is the same as pre-education college classes. The book goes on and on about learning styles. The information is valuable if you are a complete donkey of a person (which some managers really are) and don't have a clue about how to relate to people. Yes, this book will be valuable to those who REALLY need it, but I say that if you are of average or above-average intelligence, have taken college psychology or pre-education/early childhood classes, and/or have had sales experience in your career, this book will be a big waste of time for you because you've already learned how to handle people.
Easy To Follow Concepts.......2007-06-10
The book features a few easy to follow classifications and concepts, and I especially like the positive messages for management. It is a quick read, perhaps sometimes a bit simplistic, but several valuable messages. For a little more in-depth approach tempered with some tougher management approaches, I would follow this up with Warriors, Workers, Whiners, & Weasels: Understanding and Using The Four Personality Types To Your Advantage
How to Be a More Effective Person and to Live a Better Life.......2006-05-23
For years I used to treat people in more or less a consistent way in my interpersonal interactions or in managing projects. After first reading this book about four years ago, this approach changed and I have now a much greater awareness of different personalities and how people are most comfortable. As a result I know I have become a better and more effective person in the work environment and also with with my family.
What is fairly unique about this book and what I like most is that it is simple, yet powerful. For example, just by looking at two measures, responsiveness (in the emotional sense) and assertiveness, one can figure out a lot about how to deal with and get the most out of people. Other interesting areas cover how different people learn and make decisions and how diverse personality types can work together to solve problems. Overall, there is a lot of very useful and effective advice in here.
To the authors - thank you for your great work! This has definitely made a very positive difference in my life.
a juvenile piece of tripe.......2003-10-16
This book is appropriate for grade-schoolers learning to work in groups/teams. The text offers little in terms of strategies, methods or techniques for managing people and instead focuses on identifying personality traits and working with personal space. A disappointment in all regards (It's also a very boring read).
Shelf Help.......2002-03-31
I purchased this book because in my job I encounter various personalities every day. Some of these personalities are something else and make work difficult for everyone. I wanted some ideas on what to do and how to help everyone involved with these difficult people. This book has offered some good ideas that I am willing to put into practice...who know where it could lead.
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Learn the language of persuasion
How does a leader get others to see things the way he or she sees them? These authors assert that one of the most powerful ways is through the precise use of language. Looking beyond the world of business to politics, entertainment, sports, and education, The Art of Framing presents dozens of real-life examples to illustrate how leaders gain support for their vision and inspire prompt action in their constituents by skillfully using language to frame events, ideas and goals at every opportunity. Using these proven technique, you can enjoy the same results.
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Amazon.com has far better books.......1999-08-25
Having already done extensive reading on charismatic leadership and the unique role of language in this ambiguous process, I was disappointed with this particular endeavor. It was too basic and shallow to be of any practical guidance. Certainly effective leadership depends on much more than the creative use of metaphor, analogy, and the like. I strongly suggest other books that take the idea of language and leadership much farther than this work, and with a much more academic, thorough and compelling approach, including Jay Conger's work on charismatic leadership (The Charismatic Leader: Behind the Mystique of Exceptional Leadership, Jay A. Conger, Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1989)
Dry.......1998-10-31
This book was pretty dry with nothing really vivid to pull me into it. The conversations were hard to follow because they were out of context.
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Stanley Bing's Throwing the Elephant, subtitled Zen and the Art of Managing Up, is a wise and hilarious--mostly hilarious--antidote to the extensive library of works by grim, clenched-fisted business gurus. Bing posits that power strategies cannot be "managed through rational means." Real success--corporate-niche enlightenment--comes only by embracing religion, specifically Zen Buddhism. This enables one to take "an object of enormous weight and size" (i.e. the elephantine boss) and "mold it ... like a ball of Silly Putty." In truth, he continues, senior management is "the silliest putty of them all." Bing doles out his thoughts in dozens of pithy chapters ("Playing Golf with the Elephant," "Getting Drunk with the Elephant"). He also includes many visual aids (some of which nearly make sense) and adds a sprinkling of the wisdom of others--from Martha Stewart and Jimmy Hoffa to the rock band the Doors--to make his wickedly entertaining points. --H. O'Billovitch
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Sit down. Breathe deep. This is the last business book you will ever need. For in these pages, Stanley Bing solves the ultimate problem of your working life: How to manage the boss.
The technique is simple . . . as simple as throwing an elephant. All it takes is the proper state of mind, a step-by-step plan, and a great leap of faith. This humble guide provides all these and more. It is Zen that enables one to take an object of enormous weight and size and mold it in one's grasp like a ball of Silly Putty. For senior management, in truth, is the silliest putty of them all.
This comprehensive course walks budding business bodhisattvas through basic skills needed to provide the simple elephant handling that makes everyday life possible, including but not limited to the primary task of following along after the elephant with a little broom and dustpan.Serious students will then move to intermediate steps, from Polishing the Elephant's Tusks to Hiding from the Elephant When It Has Been Drinking and Feels Quite Nasty. Beyond this level lies the land of the practiced Zen masters, culminating in the ability to leverage and then throw the now-weightless elephant--and even play catch with it at corporate retreats.
If What Would Machiavelli Would Do? was the meanest business book since the Renaissance, Throwing the Elephant provides the yang to that yin. Because sometimes you've got to be selfless, compassionate, and completely empty to get the job done.
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Sit down. Breathe deep. This is the last business book you will ever need. For in these pages, Stanley Bing solves the ultimate problem of your working life: How to manage the boss. The technique is simple . . . as simple as throwing an elephant. All it takes is the proper state of mind, a step-by-step plan, and a great leap of faith. This humble guide provides all these and more. It is Zen that enables one to take an object of enormous weight and size and mold it in one's grasp like a ball of Silly Putty. For senior management, in truth, is the silliest putty of them all.
This comprehensive course walks budding business bodhisattvas through basic skills needed to provide the simple elephant handling that makes everyday life possible, including but not limited to the primary task of following along after the elephant with a little broom and dustpan. Serious students will then move to intermediate steps, from Polishing the Elephant's Tusks to Hiding from the Elephant When It Has Been Drinking and Feels Quite Nasty. Beyond this level lies the land of the practiced Zen masters, culminating in the ability to leverage and then throw the now-weightless elephant--and even play catch with it at corporate retreats. If What Would Machiavelli Would Do? was the meanest business book since the Renaissance, Throwing the Elephant provides the yang to that yin. Because sometimes you've got to be selfless, compassionate, and completely empty to get the job done.
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STILL HAVE NOT RECEIVED the book.......2007-07-09
Please assist me as I still have not received this book and this is the second time I have placed the order and the money has been debited from my account.
Working for Peanuts is all very fine!.......2005-10-21
No really, I mean it.
Or anyway, it will be, once you calm yourself, little aphid, and penetrate to the heart of "Throwing the Elephant", Zen Master Stanley Bing's exegesis on the sublime art of applying the infinite wisdom of Siddhartha himself to the sinews, guts, entrails and viscera of the business jungle, and mastering the King of the Beasts himself.
No, silly, not the Lion. The Elephant.
You don't know about the Elephant in the room? Sure you do.
Let's step back a moment: let's meditate. Calm. Relax. Get in touch with the great infinite blackness of stars and even more stars wheeling and dancing and colliding above us and about us, and what the Hell, after a few vodka gimlets down at Dorsia, maybe even *through* us.
Did you know see that star overhead? See how it twinkles? Now imagine: the light from that star has taken thousands, perhaps millions of light-years to travel from Constellation Seti Prime, which means that by the time we see it twinkle, the star itself may very well have exploded. Or subsided into the stellar senesence of a red dwarf. That is to say, that star you're wishing upon may already be long dead.
Kinda puts the McGillicuddy Account in perspective, huh?
I could end this review with that, but I'll proceed a bit further: sit beneath the bodhi tree with Zen Master Bing. He'll teach you about the Elephant. He'll teach you about the Great Nothingness which flows around and through you. He'll teach you, as Sidhartha taught him, that desire is suffering, that there is only the dharma, and at its heart, Duty.
Duty? Why yes: to serve and keep and feed and groom and care for the Elephant. To not annoy it. To console it when it is sad, and galumph about with it (beware the feet!) when it is joyous. To sweep up its poop, and to clean off its poopy hindquarters. To leash it, to ride it, and ultimately, to throw it.
But let's talk, quickly, about the Elephant. All offices have one, perhaps a few. The Elephant has its pen in one of the corners of the executive suite: good digs, maybe even a working fireplace up here on the 37th floor, possibly a wet bar, maybe even an in-house masseuse.
Can you smell the sweet rotten reek of straw and sweat and blood and tears and dung? Yep, the Elephant. It will sally forth, to trumpet and do other bellicose things in the jungle: the lowly creatures in its vicinity (hint: you) will keep their heads down, fall silent, try not to make sudden moves or loud noises.
The Elephant will make you fear for your career, your home, your wife, your small children, your very life. It will make you work over the weekend, or cut short the long-planned trip to Bermuda. It will force you to work long hours and give lots of face time.
Ah, yes: now there is recognition. The Elephant.
So with that, then, this quick little primer---Bing the Bhodissatva practically puts the KO in Koan---will teach you how to abide, control, and ultimately master this fell beast, without being stamped to jelly. And it's a tasty little read, that goes down like cucumber paste. How cool is that?
As the Buddha himself once said, as he sat beneath his bhodi tree: Very.
JSG
Zen References A Bit Tiring.......2005-03-24
I'm a big fan of Bing's column in Fortune, but I was a bit disappointed by this book. He offers his usual ironic insights on upper management -- but I found the entire zen-buddha framework somewhat forced and tiring. If you know a lot about "zen" philosophy, I'm sure you'll be able to appreciate more of the subtleties than I could. However, I mostly found myself reading quickly through the zen quotes and references, eager to get on to the more meaty actual business stories and anecdotes. Maybe it just wasn't the book for me. I look forward to some of Bing's other works, instead.
A book about nothing.......2004-05-06
It must have been fun to write this book. It is much better than Mr Bing's What Would Machiavelli Do? There is more humor than knowledge in this one. Even if you are a Bing fan, I would suggest you borrow it from the library.
My elephant likes to rage and stomp me!.......2004-04-29
This is going down as one of my all-time favorite books. I also highly recommend the excellent book on tape version which is read by the very amusing Simon Jones.
My employer is a self-made multimillionaire who is a elephant in the truest meaning of the what this book discusses. He will scream and spit in your face while firing off threats of how he wants to kill you if he feels pushed to far. But the man is at his worst (or finest) when he calmly and collectedly confronts someone in his lair and with smirks and onesided logic breaks them down. I have yet to learn to properly handle my elephant and so he repeatedly stomps me as he trumpets his rage. The beast is the master of browbeating.
Ironically (At this very moment of my typing this) he has summoned me to his upstairs office for most likely another stomping. This man/elephant has gone decades without someone effectively standing up to him and saying ***&&!!! this is where you get off the bus!! As the old saying goes "absolute power corrupts."
I just got back from my meeting with him. I have been granted a reprieve and will supposedly get much better treatment. But is he really trying to "rehabilitate me" or simply fattening me up for the kill later on? A part of me yearns for the axe and freedom. But I have invested so much work into what I have with him and the company.
I think he wants to turn me into an elephant "mini-me." He is in my view a generally good & brilliant human being (amazingly) but with a bad side at times the size of the Grand Canyon. The strange thing about my pachyderm is that he wishes to live forever and never have to be laid to rest in an elephant graveyard. To this end he will be frozen at death in the hope of being brought back to stomp and trumpet among the humans and elephants of the future. I hope the denizens of that time will know what they are bargaining for by bringing him back! But perhaps they will teach him the lessons he has not gotten in this segment of his life.
I have a fantasy about winning the lottery and becoming his business partner. My dreams of putting him in his place are much stronger than simply being able to go out and buy anything I want, traveling the world or even making love to beautiful women!
Best wishes to all potential elephant wranglers out there!
You will need it.
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The People Dimension: Managing the Transition to World-Class Manufacturing
Ronald J. Recardo , and
Luigi A. Peluso
Manufacturer: Quality Resources.
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Helps Treat the Difficult U.S Tossed Salad Workforce........2004-12-09
Davis states in 'Fast Track to Waste Free Manufacturing': "The real purpose of Lean Manufacturing is to enlist the workforce in driving waste out of an operation."
From this statement we infer the critical nature the topic of 'The People Dimension' plays in the lean transformation. The people problems faced in implementing lean are rarely treated in any depth in Lean literature. In my opinion, these people problems are the "soft underbelly of implementing lean manufacturing in the U.S." A case in point. G.M. determined early in the 1980's that it's products were not competitive in price and quality with Toyota's products. G.M. then entered into a joint venture with Toyota (New United Motors Manufacturing Inc. - NUMMI) in order to learn the Toyota Production System (TPS) in exchange for providing a U.S. distribution channel to Toyota. Now, twenty years later, G.M. still has not involved it's workforce in continuous improvement activities to the extent Japanese auto makers routinely are able to do.
BUT YOU SAY - Toyota's American workers are just as productive as their native Japanese workers - NOT SO. The cycle time for the average Toyota product in America is still twice as long as that in a Toyota Japanese plant.
THE POINT IS, the homogeniety and dedication of the Japanese worker is such that the U.S. domestic car maker may never be able to match the price/quality of the Japanese made automobile.
Lean manufacturing processes require empowering the worker. Unless the worker is prepared and committed to taking on additional required responsibilites, the lean transformation will ultimately fail.
Recardo and Peluso's book 'The People Dimension' treats the difficulty that the U.S. 'Tossed Salad' workforce presents to the lean transformation effort.
No where else have I found topics such as: The communication strategy, Targeted education programs, Self directed work teams, Skill based pay systems (SBP). and especially, Organizational change management, treated as adroitly and fully in a lean model as they are treated in 'The People Dimension'.
This book is definitely one of a kind and works for me.
Relevance to the lean practitioner 7/10
Relevance to the lean manager 9/10
Clarity and organization 9/10
Original content 10/10
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Great overview of the Topic.......2005-12-09
McEvoy (Sen. Jeffords only wrote the foreward) presents an excellent introduction to the topic of sustainable forestry management. There are numerous external references for other sources on specific topics and sample contracts for woodlands owners. McEvoy's very easy and enjoyable writing style make the read quick and interesting. I am ordering his other book on the more technical side of contracting, taxes and estate planning.
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A collection of thought-provoking essays on management and leadership that propose radical new ways of thinking about what managers do and what organizations are.
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Managing for Innovation: Leading Technical People
Watts S. Humphrey
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Watershed Management 2005: Managing Watershed for Human and Natural Impacts: Engineering, Ecological, and Economic Challenges
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Experts from around the world share their unique perspectives on tackling the important and pressing problems facing watershed management today. The more than 240 papers contained in this proceedings were presented at the 2005 Watershed Management Conference held in Williamsburg, VA, July 19-22, 2005. Special topics included: (1) DAM REMOVAL numerous case studies of specific dam removal projects are presented along with more general presentations of changes to sediment and channel dynamics upstream and downstream of the removed dams; (2) DECISION SUPPORT - computational tools aimed at helping guide operational and management decisions within watersheds are presented. Tools for making cost-effective ecosystem services decisions and drought management decisions, and tools specifically designed for management of the Colorado River and the Truckee River basins are presented; (3) CHESAPEAKE BAY - many different studies and watershed management efforts have been performed to better understand the delicate ecology of the Bay and how best to protect it. Papers focus on such varied issues as wetland restoration, sediment transport, BMPs, Smart Growth, and real-time watershed surveillance in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed; (4) FIRE papers examine the impacts of fires on sediment transport, pollutant transport, and changes in flood potential; and (5) RIVER RESTORATION papers examine river restoration through case studies, analysis of regional behavior, and study of both in-stream and adjacent riparian conditions. Reflecting the inter-disciplinary nature of the conference, these proceedings papers will be of interest to all professional with a critical stake in engineers, hydrologists, biologists, ecologists, economists, attorneys, public officials, and governmental planners.
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The Art of Managing Human Resources (Sloan Management Review)
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In today's highly complex and rapidly changing business environment, the ability to manage change and to promote and sustain a vital corporate culture are crucial skills for practicing mangers. In The Art of Managing Human Resources, the eminent business scholar Edgar Schein has gathered together for the first time some of the best and most influential articles that have appeared in M.I.T.'s Sloan Management Review. These articles represent a rich source of creative thinking on the management of human resources and the process of organizational development and change. What makes an organization effective? How does one integrate education with indoctrination? How can one meet both the needs of the organization and the individual? How can one ensure that employee behavior, whether at the shop floor or managerial level, meets ethical standards without sacrificing effectiveness? How can managers improve their own management of time? Does the right kind of culture or a strong culture necessarily lead to greater organizational effectiveness? Or can strong cultures actually constrain desired change? In addressing these and many other central issues, The Art of Managing Human Resources offers a practical perspective on the field as it has evolved over the last twenty-five years, providing executives with the background and ideas needed to build a more effective organization. Written specifically for practicing managers, this volume avoids technical language and contains minimal discussion of research and methodology. It will be essential reading for line managers and human resource executives as well as for researchers, consultants, and executives-in-training concerned with human resource management and organizational change. About the Editor: Edgar H. Schein is Sloan Fellows Professor of Management at the Sloan School of Management, M.I.T. He has written numerous books, including Organizational Culture and Leadership and Organizational Psychology (now in its third edition) and has contributed articles to Harvard Business Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Industrial Management Review and Sloan Management Review.
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