by René Amalberti (2013)
Managing safety in a professional environment requires constant negotiation with other competitive dimensions of risk management (finances, market and political drivers, manpower and social crisis). This is obvious, although generally not said in safety manuals. The book provides a unique vision of how to best find these compromises, starting with lessons learnt from natural risk management by individuals, then applying them to the craftsman industry, complex industrial systems (civil aviation, nuclear energy) and public services (like transportation and medicine). It offers a unique, illustrated, easy to read and scientifically based set of original concepts and pragmatic methods to revisit safety management and adopt a successful system vision. As such, and with illustrations coming from many various fields (aviation, fishing, nuclear, oil, medicine), it potentially covers a broad readership.
Frederick Jones
"This book says 'no' to small business failures and 'yes' to controlling the destiny of our organizations. In this book, we will teach you how laziness and arrogance can ruin great business. Champions in business refrain from unprofessional, destructive behavior and magnify the positive traits identified in this book."--Back cover
Charles H. Fine
In Clockspeed, Charles Fine draws on a decade's worth of research at M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management to introduce a new vocabulary for understanding the forces of competition and making strategic decisions that will determine the destiny of your company, as well as your industry. Taking inspiration from the world of biology, Fine argues that each industry has its own evolutionary life cycle (or "clockspeed"), measured by the rate at which it introduces new products, processes, and organizational structures. Just as geneticists study the fruit fly to gain insight into the evolutionary paths of all animals, managers in any industry can learn from the industrial fruit flies - such as Internet services, personal computers, and multimedia entertainment - which evolve through new generations at breakneck speed. Applying the lessons of the fruit flies to industries as diverse as bicycles, pharmaceuticals, and semiconductors, Fine illustrates how competitive advantage is lost or gained by how well a company manages a dynamic web of relationships that run throughout its chain of suppliers, distributors, and alliance partners.
Carol Kennedy
What exactly are Deming's famous 14 points? How can managers analyze their own company's competitiveness using Michael Porter's strategies for competitive advantage? How did Peters and Waterman's In Search of Excellence formula get debunked with the 1980s? How do companies really Thrive on Chaos? If you don't have ready answers for these important management questions, Instant Management is the book for you - whether you've been out of school for years and forgotten the details of the economic Major Works, or it's the night before the exam and you need a quick "refresher" on all the semester's reading. Taking the best ideas from the most important management thinkers of our time, Instant Management is the ideal reference guide for understanding modern management strategy. In quick, easy-to-read essays, Carol Kennedy provides concise summaries capturing the essence of thirty-four seminal thinkers and their major works. In addition to the blow-by-blow key points for each theorist, every entry includes a brief biography and a list of important source titles. Instant Management is perfect reading for the busy executive or student. Covering a range of thinkers spanning the century - from Max Weber to Tom Peters, from F. W. Taylor to Rosabeth Moss Kanter - this user-friendly guide is indispensable for gaining the greatest amount of knowledge in the management field in the shortest amount of time. Why read thirty-four business texts when you can read just one?
Stuart Crainer
Summaries of fifty influential business books include contributions from Peter Drucker, Dale Carnegie, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, W. Edwards Deming, and Tom Peters.