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

JULY 8, 2012

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

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 15, 2011

Surviving the Serengeti: 7 Skills To Master Business and Life Stefan Swanepoel John Wiley & Sons (2011) A parable for success that sometimes requires a perilous journey of self-discovery Fables may well be among the earliest forms of storytelling and remain popular among several business thinkers, notably Stephen Denning and Patrick Lencione.

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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 it he writes that, “…our prosocial disposition and our noblest altruistic tendencies have deep roots in the physics of self-organization and are probably responsible for our species’ unparalleled success…” (p. Nor am I an epidemiologist.

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