First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 6, 2012

Last Friday, I presented my synopsis of the business book classic, The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt & Jeff Cox. It is an incredibly useful, helpful, practical book. It is a genuine multi-year best seller, and now I know why. Written in fable form, it is set in a factory, but, [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

You spend a day – a full day – focused on one book. And, what books do you focus on for a full day? Books that have “stood the test of time.” Not necessarily “really old books,” but books that have been around long […]. Randy''s blog entries'

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LDRLB

JULY 16, 2012

One exception to this is Eliyah Goldratt’s The Goal and after an initial reading of Grivas and Puccio’s The Innovative Team: Unleashing Creative Potential for Breakthrough Results , I may have another exception. I’m not the biggest fan of business fables. Most provide generic advice in the form of a poorly written narrative.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 3, 2020

This concept is reinforced by Mark Buchanan in his 2007 book entitled The Social Atom. In his 2002 book The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big difference , his chapter entitled “The Law of the Few” provides a background on how epidemics spread. New York: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company. The Big Show.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 2, 2011

Turner John Wiley & Sons (2010) How to “break through all that noise and visual stimulation to get to the core of the customer” What we have here is another business fable, a very popular sub-genre for business book authors [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 8, 2012

Here are two important business success issues: #1 — how do I successfully get people to listen to my message? and #2 — how do I find, and get rid of, whatever is slowing us down in our company? Solve these 2 issues, and your path to business success becomes a little clearer. At the [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 6, 2012

The Radical Leap Re-Energized: A Story That Will Change the Way You Lead Steve Farber No Limit Publishing (2011) “If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?” Rabbi Hillel the Elder What we have here [.].

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