Stephen the best book I have seen overcoming organized means of measuring
accounts, budgets, knowledge mgt, company value, and so on is ""Competing
in the Third Wave" by Jeremy Hope and Tony Hope published this year by
HBSP. I don't buy too many business books these days- but this one is
excellent- chapters include "Management Accounting: managing the business
not the numbers" "Productivity" and "Measurement and control".
I have also just read "The Individualized Corporation" by Ghoshal and
Barlett and would have to say that this book promises "A fundamental new
approach to management" but delivers only a reframe of existing
organizational practices within downsized companies. It proports to cover
the same issues as the first book, but does not manage it nearly so well.
If anyone wants my copy, let me know.
By the way, list members may be interested in an advanced warning of two
potentially great new books: "trans: shaping interactions in the
unorganized world" by myself published on http://www.unorg.com in the next
few days and also "Circle of Innovation" by Tom Peters, published in the
UK at least around about the 15th of Jan 1998. The later is the first new
book for a while from Tom so lets hope its a good one!
Regards sincerely Simon Buckingham http://www.unorg.com unorganization:
business not busyness!
stephen bennett wrote:
> I am developing a short training module for a client in the general area
> of 'managing the overall cost of doing business'.
> really worth.
--Simon Buckingham <go57@dial.pipex.com>
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