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Running Things
The Art Of Making Things Happen
McGraw-Hill. (1986) |
This is the book I wished I had available to read when starting PCA. It
is the Entrepreneur's handbook. Quality Management is included as part of
running an organization, but is not the major ingredient. In the first
chapter "The purpose of an organization" we learn that people
see different things from what we might think is the same view. They all
have different agendas. The Picture Hangers Association members, for
instance, are focused on running a meeting properly and are not concerned
that their boat is sinking. Many of us have lived through that.
The role of the leader is briefly discussed which takes us to the
chapters that lay out what the leader does to make things happen:
Arranging; Establishing; Exampling; Handling; Doing. All of these contain
stories that help the reader understand the concepts and application. Then
the GNU case follows the start up of a company from idea to set up to
accomplishment and does it in real life detail. All of this is followed by
a glossary of things we need to know from Ability to Youth. Along the way
we talk about Performance Evaluation and offer a new system for
accomplishing this necessary but difficult task. This is a different, and
mutually agreeable way of looking at things. The book closes with
Following Through, a bit of advice on being successful in any task. As
with the other books a Guidelines for Browsers is included.
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