Mar 31, 2023 | Book Review
In their modern management classic, First, Break All the Rules (1999), contrarians Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman (of The Gallup Organization) openly criticize conventional management thinking.And rightly so.Amongst the management maxims they dismiss:Hiring for...
Jan 27, 2023 | Book Review
In Search of Excellence (1982) can be criticized for the same reason that a lot of books on successful business management can:Many of the companies it holds up as exemplars just aren’t very successful anymore.In the case of ISOE, some of those organizations simply...
Nov 11, 2022 | Book Review
In his bestseller, Images of Organization (1986, updated 2006), organizational theorist and management consultant Gareth Morgan encourages managers to utilize the ‘power of metaphor’ in order to manager better. Doing so, he argues, will allow a manager to ‘discover...
Dec 31, 2021 | Book Review
Built to Last (1994) by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras seems to have lived up to its title at least. Nearly 30 years after its publication it’s still considered one of the most influential business management books of all time.[1]So ‘lasted’ it has.But according...
Apr 16, 2021 | Book Review
In the end, Robert Sutton’s 2010 management text Good Boss, Bad Boss struck me as uncertain as its title.Good boss? Bad boss? This Stanford professor of management (and author of seven books on the subject) just can’t seem to decide….or explain the...