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Title: Hope is Not a Method by Gordon R. Sullivan, Michael V. Harper ISBN: 0-7679-0060-X Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 02 September, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Does not meet commander's intent. Lacks concept of operation
Comment: I'm an active duty soldier and business student. I have experience in the civilian business world, and will re-enter business upon completion of my term. Mr. Sullivan apparently has little experience outside of the military, and it shows. Although much can be learned from the military in terms of structure, team development, and decision making, it must be severely tempered with a dose of good business sense. The Army does not operate for profit, and therefore will never achieve the same level of pursuit of excellence that a highly motivated businessman can. Because the Army lacks both customers and shareholders, underperforming leaders routinely get away with murder in their progress reports, since much of what they do in peacetime is subjectively interpreted. In business, profit and loss are not easily concealed, and underperformers are shown the door. Change is painfully slow in the Army's layered bureacracy, and a modern business this sloth-like soon becomes lunch. The authors obscure any possible connections to civilain business practices by conspicuous absence of examples and analogies, instead substituting "there I was" war stories and abstracts that a civilian will not easily relate to or care about. The introductions to each chapter read more like West Point commencement addresses, and are about as interesting and as long. Overall, the book could be useful if more concise and relevant. However, since it's more likely to be read by Army officers rather than business people, it will still sell. For real business generalship, study Al Dunlap.
Rating: 5
Summary: Should be required reading in every organization.
Comment: I cannot remember a book so well written, so full of business principles, and yet so easy to understand. I am a management consultant in the housing industry, and this book is required reading for every existing client, and I do not take on a new client until this book has been read by the management team. Sullivan and Harper, with pinpoint accuracy, identify the principles which make good companies great, and great companies, untouchable.
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Title: The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell by Oren Harari ISBN: 0071388591 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 25 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Command, Control, and the Common Defense by C. Kenneth Allard ISBN: 0300052294 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: February, 1992 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Sources of Conflict in the 21st Century: Regional Futures and U.S. Strategy by Zalmay Khalilzad, Ian O. Lesser, United States Air Force, Project Air Force (U.S.) ISBN: 0833025295 Publisher: RAND Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Six Thinking Hats by Edward Debono ISBN: 0316178314 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 18 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Flight of the Buffalo:Soaring To Excellence,learning To Let Employees Lead by R. James A./Stayer Belasco ISBN: 0446670081 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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