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This Site's Best -- from 2005 to 2009


How to Review a Book: Before you tell us what you think the book should have been, tell us what it aimed to be and do. In other words, judge the book (for starters) based on the author's intent. Many of us would also like to know exactly how the author writes. You are free to characterize that, but first -- display a representative set of extracts! 

Ira Chaleff on The Courageous Follower, one of the few durable management books from the otherwise flaky 1990s. Everyone with a boss who isn’t a crook or a knave needs to read this book, and that especially includes anyone who has a legislative post, because Chaleff has vast experience with political practitioners.

Perceivers vs. Judgers -- making the case for Js, in any setting where labor is scarce and action is required every day. And the case is made partly by ridiculing Ps. Myers-Briggs pros counter that we always need a balance of the various types. It appears they have spent too much time inside large companies condoning “inclusiveness.” For those of us who work in small (deadlined) collaborations, it pays to exclude Perceivers.

Al Ries is probably America’s greatest living marketing strategist, and he gave this website his most in-depth Q&A. If your enterprise has too many interests and not enough income, try Al’s Focus.

Very few people appreciate how Peter Drucker managed himself. This "lone-wolf intuitor" disciplined his fertile mind in a way that captivated dozens of CEOs. As a Fortune 500 consultant, but also as a teacher, Drucker developed a model for every self-employed person who likes concepts and trends, yet is weak on structure. If you never realized that side of Drucker, you've spent too much time reading his books, and not enough time watching him work.

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