Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin
This is a fascinating book covering a powerful businessman and a grand experiment in vertical integration.
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This is a fascinating book covering a powerful businessman and a grand experiment in vertical integration.
Each of the strategies discussed are valid; however, the authors should stick with academic articles and books and leave the writing of novels to other authors.
The strength of the book is the series of provocative issues it raises. Practitioners can read it and decide if their businesses are positioned to better manage older workers and increase performance.
Paperny’s objective in getting the message across regarding consequences for unethical/illegal actions is very effective. Readers will appreciate the visceral connection with each chapter.
This book will be of special interest to HR professionals and provides valuable insights and options to all strategy-level managers in an organization.
The book is replete with real-world examples—those that worked, those that didn’t work, and why.
Thompson’s book is a must-read for those trapped in middle management who have not been as lucky as I have in finding a way out to smaller, yet much, much greener pastures.
Although this book is a novel, it allows the reader to gain knowledge and to reflect on its application. I give this four stars and a big “thumbs up.”
In this manual, one will not find “trading secrets” nor “holy grails,” but an efficient portal to more study in areas of interest or need for the reader.
The depth of analysis and the often provocative solutions offered in this report make it a must for those who need clarification on the financial crisis.
A review of “Who’s your Gladys” by Suttle and Vest, who say “customer service is about seeing the positive qualities in a client with negative behavior.”
Analytics at Work is about improving performance in key business domains using data and analysis. Five stars.
Rosenstein unpacks the wisdom of Peter Drucker for the benefit of today’s business professionals, and, a prodigious amount of wisdom it is.
Throughout the book Dawson provides a sophisticated set of frameworks to prepare senior managers for creating evocative change.
I found the book to be short on new insights and somewhat trite in some aspects of leadership that it explored.