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Confronting Reality: Doing What Matters to Get Things Right
Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan
Crown Business, 2004
Excellent Business Book!
+ Play Where the Puck Is Going to Be
+ Strategic solutions for a familiar problem
+ Confronting Reality : Doing What Matters to Get Things Right
+ Look! A FOREST!!!
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Critical Chain
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Gower Pub Co, 1997
Starting Point for TOC Applied to Projects
+ Goldratt Weaves Another Great Story!
+ Critical chain in the series.
+ Just as good if not better than "The Goal"
+ Enjoyable and useful
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A Bias for Action
Heike Bruch, Sumantra Ghoshal
Penguin Books, 2006
An Executive Coach and Leadership Primer
+ One of best five books on effective self-management
+ Not Just a Collection of Cliches
+ Helpful advice without too much Harvard clutter!
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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
David Allen
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002
Absolutely phenomenal ways of managing yourself
+ This Book can Change Your Level of Productivity and Stress
+ Great Book! Even for the Over-Organizers!!
Management begins with self! Start managing yourself and you would be able to manage everyone and everything around you. But there are times when you have lots of things to do and you are left with no choice but to get more and more confused.
The best ways I thought to manage everything starting ...
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The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox
North River Press, 2004
Great framework for improving anything
+ Extremely useful manufacturing throughput concepts
+ Julie Rogo Knocks It Down One Star
+ Outstanding read
+ Manufacturing world at a glance
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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, ...
Crown Business, 2002
Management Take Notice
+ Obviously if you're going to get things done, you gotta "execute" them...
+ Muy buen libro
+ developing strategies that work
+ Get it done = What + How = Execution
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Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management
Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert I. Sutton
Harvard Business School Press, 2006
Another thought provoking work from Pfeffer
+ Profiting From Evidence-Based Management
+ Great scientific evaluation of many management beliefs
+ Rigorous Research Put Into Practice
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Extraordinary Guarantees : A New Way to Build Quality Throughout Your Company & Ensure Satisfaction for Your ...
Christopher W. L. Hart
AMACOM, 1993
This extraordinay book is really an A+
I used this superb book at the company where I work to help devise a risky, previously unheard-of guarantee. The guarantee has helped our sales to growth extraordinary fast. However, it's impossible to even consider such a move without thinking through all the possibilities- some disastrous- ...
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The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't
Robert I. Sutton
Business Plus, 2007
A great book ... why you do not want jerks on your team
+ I work with a bunch of you know whats
+ Dead Bang On!!
+ Loved it and used it with great success
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The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action
Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert I. Sutton
Harvard Business School Press, 2000
Overcoming Inertia - Uniting New Knowledge with Action
+ Still the Best Book on Execution and Implementation
+ This book Is The Best of The Best!
+ Effectiveness, honesty, simplicity
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Weird Ideas That Work: 11 1/2 Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation
Robert I. Sutton
Free Press, 2001
Productive New Concepts
+ Weird and Wonderful
+ Routine right and wrong
+ Not so weird ideas for innovation labeled weirdly
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What Were They Thinking?: Unconventional Wisdom About Management
Jeffrey Pfeffer
Harvard Business School Press, 2007
Unconventional Common Sense
+ Easier Said than Done
+ Maybe not as unconventional, but good
+ Awesome and True Business Management Book!!!
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
Jim Collins
Collins Business, 2001
Worth for its price
+ A good look at what companies can do to manage talent
+ Good to Great
+ Good to Great review
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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, ...
Crown Business, 2002
Management Take Notice
+ Obviously if you're going to get things done, you gotta "execute" them...
+ Muy buen libro
+ developing strategies that work
+ Get it done = What + How = Execution
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The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't
Robert I. Sutton
Business Plus, 2007
A great book ... why you do not want jerks on your team
+ I work with a bunch of you know whats
+ Dead Bang On!!
+ Loved it and used it with great success
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