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How Excellent Companies Avoid Dumb Things: Breaking The 8 Hidden Barriers That Plague Even The Best Businesses (2013)

by Neil Smith(Favorite Author)

3.58 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1137278404 (ISBN13: 9781137278401)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Palgrave Macmillan Trade

review 1: I thought the author's strategy made sense, but it just didn't seem feasible. The strategy seemed like it could only be implemented by top management. As someone far from the top of my organization, the book was almost frustrating because although I agreed with many of the author's points, I could also see that the changes could be very difficult to implement in most organizations, including the one I am a part of.The book reads like a step-by-step approach to the author's consulting strategy. Although I trust that the author has been successful with this strategy, I still believe that it would be difficult to replicate at many organizations.
review 2: I received this book for free via Goodreads First Reads.I enjoyed this book. Many of the topics discussed I wa... mores already familiar with via business school. Everything was simple and easy to understand. The book would have benefited from including examples to which we can identify the protagonist or company involved. A lot of examples used in the book follow the format of "a company I once worked for" or "a leader in the banking industry." Smith includes a list of all companies to which he has worked with in a list in the back of the book, but adding the companies' names to the examples that litter the novel would have added legitmacy and validity to his antecdotes. Understandbly some companies do not want their name attached to such stories or privacy issues may come into play, however, the lack of visible company names in the book was jarring. I have read many managerial-type books, and the majority of these the names of companies we are either familiar with or not to better illustrate their theories. less

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