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Excellent "Real World" Literature
Dr. Kock's work is one that illustrates "real world" situations and case studies of the business world, be it in a class room or at hom for one's reading pleasure. It uses the business environment's strategies and breaks them down so that the audience may fully understand them and implement them. His vast experience with information technology and management enhances this book's effeciency in sharing knowledge to an audience, not just meaningless information.

Excellant Resource for E-collaboration implementation in BPR
This Book mainly deals with Organizations ,seeking redesigning process ,with facilitating collborative technologies.Book is profound resources with respect to Business process redesign techniques.Being a ardent reader of Dr Kock's works on E-collaboration,I think this book encompasses all that is required for BPR process involving collaboration technologies.Interesting feature of the book involves in exploring a new methdologies of communication in corporate work environments apart for email.The book has strongly emphasized on statistics and contains necessary resources having academic value.I think book caters perfectly to the need of researchers working in the area of E-collaboration and its impacts in dynamic business processes

Excellant learning as well aswork tool
This book serves for the purpose of Academic as well as Industrial needs dealing with business process improvement.A special feature dealing with the book includes real life cases and thier apt description.Dr Kock should be specially commended for his work .He has taken enough care to make it easily digestible for a novice reader too.Book contains range of statistics as well as case studies which enhance its value beyond. Book covers e-collaboration advancements,and thier implementational issues.Book provides a new dimension to the field of Business Process Redesign.All in all a great book ... Read more

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A master describes how he works -- this book changed my life
Argris, a professor of industrial psychology, has published some of the most practical and insighful works of psychology I know of.In the influential book "The Fifth Discipline" Senge devotes an entire chapter specifically to Argryis's ideas and Argyris's ideas show up all over that work.In attempting to apply Argyris's ideas in business I discovered (as have others) that it applies to many areas of my life.In the process I am becoming much more self-aware of my own feelings, objectives, and values and how they color my interactions with others -- on the job and in my personal life.Read more

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Nuts-and-bolts of a Learning Organisation
This is one of the few books that manage to get into the guts of learning organisations, past conceptual pondering and into nuts-and-bolts of turning the concepts into practices. Clear and practical book on building a learning organization
Excellent case studies; based on best theories and practice

The Excellent Book
If you want to learn "The Learning Organization", start with this book. You can understand easily what the LO is and how to build it ... Read more

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Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business planning    4. Business/Economics    5. Employee Training And Development    6. Employees    7. Entrepreneurship    8. Management - General    9. Organization Theory    10. Organizational change    11. Organizational learning    12. Strategic Planning    13. Total Quality Management    14. Training    15. Training of    16. Business & Economics / Production & Operations Management    17. Business information systems    18. Industrial or vocational training    19. Organizational theory & behaviour    20. Personnel & human resources management   

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Recommended for all levels of managerial responsibility.
Business managers involved in the information community will find this an important book examining the concept and evolution of 'knowledge management'. From reviews of major issues and background to knowledgeapplications, Knowledge Management provides a text which will be as usefulfor college-level business courses as for the working manager. ... Read more

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Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business Ethics    4. Business/Economics    5. Cognitive learning    6. Human information processing    7. Management    8. Management - General    9. Organizational behavior    10. Psychological aspects    11. Business & Economics / Business Ethics    12. Business & Economics / Management    13. Business & Economics-Business Ethics    14. Cognition & cognitive psychology    15. Organizational theory & behaviour   

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A great kids book based upon systems thinking
If you have read Peter Senge's THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE and wished there was a book about systems thinking that you could share with kids, then your wish has come true.Read more

Subjects:  1. Business Life - General    2. Fables, American    3. Fiction    4. Jungle animals    5. Management - Teams    6. Problem solving    7. Business Life    8. Modern fiction    9. Organizational change    10. Organizational learning   

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Great Practitioner Guide!
This is another great book in the extraordinary Harvard Business Review (HBR) paperback series. It is one of the books I highly recommend.
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
The title of this review is borrowed from Derek Bok who, when president of Harvard, responded to parents who crticized a recent tuition increase. Now the review.Read more

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It seems so simple, yet...
Don't we all want to figure out our purpose? Reading this book has brought me new understanding about myself and my career. I have always taken my "purpose" for granted. Making Purpose Work explains things that I thought I already knew. By doing so it exposes various dimensions of ourselves and organizations that contribute to our overall sense of wellness. This book will be beneficial to anyone who reads it, no matter where your place is in an organization. It helps you to better understand your situation and ultimately your purpose there in. ... Read more

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Tower of Babble
I thought Silicon Valley was for smart people. A Stanford professor and a retired Cisco executive have managed to write one of the most indecipherable business tombs in recent memory. I was asked to review this book for graduate school and I found it mostly incoherent business babble. "Billiard Ball Management." "Shallowly Rooted Strategic Vectors." "Kinetic Structures Prevail." What kinds of business leaders talk like that today? I often find the best business books package challenging business problems with no non-sense solutions. Save your money. This book is a tower of babble.

Stop the Vanity Presses
If Kevin Kennedy leads like he writes, he must have been one of the most mediocre executives at Cisco.This book is a hair-ball of rambling thoughts and jingo-isms and its assertions are neither clear nor connected in any manner that demonstrates business acumen.I suspect this is one of those vanity books that masquerade as a business book. In the alternative, consider leadership books by Jack Welch, Larry Bossidy, and Rudy Guiliani. Whoever edited this book should be sent back to community college to read Strunk & White 'elements of style' on the merits of clear, concise and declarative writing. In this effort, I am afraid the English language was Mr. Kennedy's enemy, not his friend.

not quite there
This book is just too long. If it were condensed to sub-100 pages it might be worthwhile as it contains some interesting ideas. Unfortunately most of the examples begin with "Cisco decided to..", "At Cisco we..., "The Cisco method of..." ......you get the idea. The authors cite "Good to Great" which is a real contrast, because the Collins team examines a wide variety of companies and industries rather than simply concentrating on Cisco. The book is also packed with graphics that -- let's face it folks -- are simply meaningless. I do not understand the reason for the other glowing reviews. Mediocre "at best". ... Read more

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A Good Read!
Management scholar Chris Argyris tackles an important problem: the pervasiveness of defensive reasoning that prevents people in organizations from understanding when and why they are skillfully incompetent. Unfortunately, he employs such an academic style that his arguments are primarily useful to fellow scholars, although they would be relevant to managers if they were offered more accessibly. The professor assumes that readers are familiar with social science literature, processes, issues and vocabulary. For those who seek solutions to the organizational problem of defensive reasoning, he offers enlightening explanatory theories, but not much practical advice. That said, it is comforting to note that someone has looked seriously at the disconnection between what executives say and what they do. Argyris catalogues the dimensions of this dysfunction and proposes - although not very concretely - that it may be open to some correction, perhaps through such tools as double-loop learning and "left hand/right hand" analysis. We suggest this book to experts in organizational behavior, corporate culture and issues in scholarship about management. ... Read more

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Wow! Empowering people!This book delivers!
Wow!What an insightful book!This book touches on the very core of many, if not all, organizational or cultural issues relating to empowerment of employee's.A must read for any trainer.Its like reading a step bystep recipe for creating or maintaining a positive work enviroment. ... Read more

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A Great Book on Human Resource Development
The authors have accomplished an enormous task of compiling information in an excellent format. The chapters are well arranged.The information is well documented and pertinent.This book covers Individual Learning andPerformance, Team Learning and Performance, and Organizational Learning andPerformance.References are quoted and cited.This book contains researcharticles that are informative and vital to understanding the components ofHuman Resource.The authors, Russ-Eft, Preskill, and Sleezer, have givenus, the readers, a superior review on Human Resource Development. ... Read more

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Editorial Review

Alan G. Robinson and Sam Stern, university professors who have served as advisors on creativity to organizations around the world, believe that the proper combination of imagination and originality is what really pumps life into a company. In Read more

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Analysis of Corporate Creativity
Corporate Creativity is a good read for a person that is looking for examples of how innovative thinkers working within a company came up with ideas to save money. The book is riddled with examples of stories that come from large organizations that made cost-cutting measures due to the creativity of an employee. Examples come from many large corporations, such as 3M, American Airlines, and Kodak. The authors outline their six essential steps to corporate creativity, alignment, self-initiated activity, unofficial activity, serendipity, diverse stimuli, and within company communication, providing real examples all along the way.
Quite entertaining, not meant as a "how to"
The book is good for readability and wide ranging examples of creativity in action.But I found its gee-whiz diagnoses of why and how creativity occur are superficial.OK for a weekend reading and maybe idea generation, but not of much practical use.

"The Power of the Unexpected"
"Most companies are aware that their creative 'potential' greatly exceeds their creative 'performance.' The problem is that they don't know what to do about it. We believe that this potential cannot be realized until people recognize where it actually lies. Consider this. Most creative acts, as they now occur in companies, are not planned for and come from where they are least expected. It is impossible to predict 'what' they will be, 'who' will be involved in them, and 'when' and 'how' they will happen. This is the true nature of corporate creativity, and it is here that a company's creative potential really lies. For corporate creativity, the real power is in the unexpected" (from the Introduction).Read more

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