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After Atlantis: Working, Managing, and Leading in Turbulent Times
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After Atlantis: Working, Managing, and Leading in Turbulent Times
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What people are saying: "I found After Atlantis to be a thoughtful and pragmatic peering into the future. I recommend it to those who plan to manage in the 21st century". Philip Crosby, Chairman and CEO, Philip Crosby Associates II, Inc. "After Atlantis contains the down to earth secrets of practicing change masters. They have distilled the practical principles needed for solving tough problems through participation. Save yourself ten years: read After Atlantis." Gifford and Libba Pinchot: Authors of Intrapreneuring and The Intelligent Organization "This book is not simply a toolbox of random ideas but rather contains the cornerstone pieces for a lasting structure. The international authorship points to the fact that the challenges described are more common than many suppose -- and that solutions are based on humanity, not nationalism." Pat Townsend: Co-author of Commit to Quality and Quality in Action. "As the fields of quality and organizational change have become more internationalized, Japanese practitioners are finding the road ahead a bit confusing. After Atlantis provides us with a practical road map to separate the quick-fix traps from the more long term organizational and work improvement approaches in order to get us through these turbulent business times." Dennis Tachiki: Senior Researcher, Sakura Bank - Sakura Institute of Research, Center for Pacific Business Studies, Tokyo, Japan "After Atlantis offers us a rare opportunity, should we be disposed, to recapture an age when all things ran well. All it takes is an open mind and the will to persevere." Dick Danjin, International Representative, Research Department, UAW, Solidarity House "I found After Atlantis an extremely user friendly, concise, and practical text that presents a set of guiding principles and procedures that can be adapted to a wide variety of organizational settings and cultures. It truly gives us all a starting place, a superstructure and improved tools to make continuous change and improvement an integral and successful component in our organizational culture. J.M. Blackbourn, Ph.D., The University of Mississippi, Research and Training Center for the Handicapped, School of Education "After Atlantis is a practical guide in setting up a new coprorate culture and involving everybody in the company." Mr. Theo Dilissen, Adjunct Director of ISS Europe, Belgium "If you have any dispair in your soul about your future, the indivudual, organizatin or community, read After Atlantis and be sure of this: we are talented and so are you - and observe how precise and practical these talents are activated by the individual authors." Freek A.M. ten Herkel, Managing Director Van Ede & Partners - Career Management , The Hague, The Netherlands "As a research manager I sometimes feel like I have motion sickness -- and they want me to hit ever moving targets! After Atlantis tells managers how to deal with the challenge of creating and sustaining adpative organizations. Anyone not wishing to feel like a seasick captain in the coming decades should read this excellent piece of work." Steven E. de Bie, Research Director, Department Public - Private Sector, The Court of Audits, The Netherlands "It is simply stated, hard hitting and challenging for leaders in the corporate, non-profit, community or political arena. It is discomforting but real. I believe it is required reading for those who want the world we live in to be better. The case studies are relative and revealing. How refreshing to hear someone cite the importance of learning with a little humor thrown in to remind us not to take ourselves too seriously in such a serious world least we forget it is OK to have fun at what we do." Jackson C Bundy, Recently retired Executive Vice President, The Greenwood Area Chamber of Commerce (South Carolina, USA) "Change, innovation and lifelong learning are the key words for modern society. And this is what you will find in After Atlantis - how to put ideas into practice. In it you'll be given the tools of making your business successful, environment-friendly and future-managable. Very live and entertaining reading. It will surely find its reader in Russia - a smart and creative individual who cares about being able to successfully work and adapt himself to the changing world of the 21st century!" Dr. Julia Sorocoumova, Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Russian Center for Comparative Education, Russian Academy of Education, Moscow, Russia "A 'must reading' that takes its place in the first rank of books on innovation and change. The authors have caught the essence of the universality of working, leading and managing in turbulent times. The processes and methods presented create a practical, comprehensive and inspiring guide for creating a new golden age in an organization, a community, a nation and even in one's self." Gloria Martillano, co-founder, Tuloy Sibol Foundation, Manila, Philippines "Give someone a management course and they'll manage for a day, give them After Atlantis and they'll manage for a lifetime. It's a practical, thought provoking book on leadership for today and tomorrow. Excellent!" Robert Specht, Manager, Corporate Training and Recruitment, Telephonics Inc., Framingdale, NY "I spend most of my time developing the system, process, and settings that enable people to take a high road of getting together, getting along, and doing what we need to do. I see "After Atlantis" as helping leaders do that job better." Fire Chief Allan Brunacini, Phoenix Fire Department, Phoenix, Arizona "After Atlantis is the first book in a decade that gives the reader a "practical" non-cookbook framework of how to excel in the whitewater environment of the 21st century. A must reading for those who hope to enter the next millennium more self-assured and optimistically." Charles Ehin, PhD, Professor of Management and former dean of the Gore School of Business, Westminster College of Salt Lake City, USA "Fascinating reading and right on target for today's leaders. The focus of After Atlantis brings home the critical communication skills of leadership - - not speaking and writing, rather listening and understanding." Dr. Bobby Papasan, Educator and former Superintendent, Tunica Mississippi Schools "The authors have contributed to the changing of cultural conditions necessary if we are to develop the kind of thinking and productivity tomorrow is demanding." Dr. Dennis Rader, Educator and author of The Jasper Problem: Rethinking Reductionism and Developing an Ecology of Education Publisher: Butterworth Heinemann: October 1997, 0-7506-9884-5 paperback, 250 pages US$17.95 Web site: www.bh.com |
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