The short message of Super Boom: Why the Dow will hit 38,820 and how you can profit from it by Jeffrey A. Hirsch (www.wiley.com) is that the peak will be reached by 2025, following a decade of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The author takes up the question, ‘What makes the market range-bound during wartime and [...]
Top in the list of ‘time wasters’ – in R. Poornalingam’s ‘Your 27 Hour Day: Everybody’s guide to find three extra hours daily’ (www.pqp.in) – is the malaise of endless meetings. Some managers love meetings so much that they call for the same even for minor issues, the author frets. “They probably like human company [...]
VIBRANT AT 1000 – Big Temple, Thanjavur, India: Photographs by Iqbal K. Mohamed; Text by Anuradha Iqbal; Pub. by Productivity and Quality Publishing Pvt. Ltd., 38, Thanikachalam Road, T. Nagar, Chennai-600017. Rs. 1200. A marvel of creativity and a work of massive magnificence, the Brahadisvara temple at Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu has evoked awe and admiration for the past 1000 years. It has inspired books, articles, and research papers by historians, archaeologists, sociologists, and art experts from India and abroad.
One size does NOT fit all! While Jack Welch is very intelligent, he doesn’t know other businesses as well as those who work in them every day. Many companies have invested heavily in process improvement because GE and other large companies did, only to be disappointed by the (lack of) results. In What Works for GE May Not Work for You: Using Human Systems Dynamics to Build a Culture of Process Improvement, Larry Solow and Brenda Fakeargue these results are not a function of process improvement tools, but in the linear manner such efforts are implemented. Their book provides new thinking for managing and sustaining process improvement in today’s complex non-linear business environment.
I was initially very skeptical about the value of lean in software development but became intrigued as to its potential value after listening to Jason championing it. Since The Toyota Way is the book where many of the ideas originated from I thought it only made sense for this to be my first port of call to learn about lean.
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