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- Ideal for all those dealing with change in their lives
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The Big Picture: A Systems Thinking Story for Managers, Leaders, and other Visionaries
Carol Ann Zulauf
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ASIN: 0967796555 |
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This is a story about Allan, a manager who starts off being very reactive and always “putting out the fires.” He gets rewarded for this type of behavior but in the process also alienates many of his direct reports and others in the organization. Slowly, he begins to learn more effective ways of interacting and incorporates the disciplines of systems thinking and organizational learning, to the huge benefit of himself, his colleagues, and his organization. Key Systems Thinking Principles, in addition to Action Learning Steps for Leaders, are provided at the end of each chapter for you to implement on your way to becoming more of a `big picture' systems thinker!
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Manager/Leader Dilemma.......2002-08-07
The Big Picture is a story that all managers/leaders can easily related to on a day-to-day basis. In today's workplace change is a constant, yet the dilemma we face is that we rarely are able to implement change as we would like. Rarely do we get the buy-in from our employees needed to bring about change. Not only does The Big Picture help us to understand "why" we don't get buy-in, it also, provides us with clear steps to see the big picture and get all our employees involved. This book is a must for all managers who want to become transformational leaders. I can't wait to read the sequel.
Manager/Leader Dilemma.......2002-08-07
The Big Picture is a story that all managers/leaders can easily related to on a day-to-day basis. In today's workplace change is a constant, yet the dilemma we face is that we rarely are able to implement change as we would like. Rarely do we get the buy-in from our employees needed to bring about change. Not only does The Big Picture help us to understand "why" we don't get buy-in, it also, provides us with clear steps to see the big picture and get all our employees involved. This book is a must for all managers who want to become transformational leaders. I can't wait to read the sequel.
You will want to pass this one around..........2002-02-07
Buy several copies, because you will want to pass this real life story around. The essence of the story will stay with those who read it because it probes our natural behaviors and invites us to consider other possibilities. Readers who are familiar with systems thinking will appreciate the realistic application of ideas in the workplace. Those who have not been introduced to systems thinking will benefit from this very practical exploration of some of the discipline's most important concepts.
You will want to pass this one around..........2002-02-07
Buy several copies, because you will want to pass this real life story around. The essence of the story will stay with those who read it because of the way it probes our natural behaviors and then invites us to consider other possibilities. Readers who are familiar with systems thinking will appreciate the application of ideas in the workplace. Those who have not been introduced to systems thinking will benefit from this very practical exploration of some of the discipline's most important concepts.
Ideal for all those dealing with change in their lives.......2001-07-25
This book is ideal for not only managers - but anyone who is having difficulty with change in their lives. It provides the reader with a realistic and wholistic frame of reference for human interaction. For those of you who are not familiar with the field of systems thinking that was founded by such leading thinkers as Jay Forester and Peter Senge, this is the ideal book for you to get started and bring these concepts into modern day reality.
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The Visionary Executive: Strategic Planning for the New Business Leaders
Michael Z. Brooke , and
William Mills
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Every day, business leaders all over the world do two things -- they set goals for their companies, and they do their best to motivate their employees to fulfill those goals. But, obviously, not all leaders are alike. Ultimately, what distinguishes the successful leader is vision.
The Visionary Executive is the business leader's guide to becoming a visionary leader -- one who is able to identify, describe, and stick with a vision. No matter what level of organization the reader occupies, if the position requires leadership or decision making, this book will help them achieve substantial results by demonstrating:
** what it takes to be a visionary leader
** how to focus the vision, based on information and objectives
** how to predict the competition's vision -- and stay one step ahead
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In the more than forty years since the first human left the atmosphere of Earth, no one had ever done so without the help of a government agency. That changed on June 21, 2004, when SpaceShipOne, built by aircraft designer Burt Rutan, entered space and ushered in the commercial space age.
Investment capital began to pour into the new commercial spaceflight industry. Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic will begin ferrying space tourists out of the atmosphere in 2009. Las Vegas hotelier Robert Bigelow is spending $500 million of his personal fortune to develop the world's first commercial space station (i.e., space hotel). Former PayPal CEO Elon Musk is developing orbital spacecraft to service Bigelow's space station. Others want to tap the vast natural resources of space, including unlimited solar power. These space entrepreneurs, including Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, now see space as the Next Big Thing.
In Rocketeers, Michael Belfiore goes behind the scenes of this nascent industry, capturing its Wild West, anything-goes flavor, enhanced by the fact that most of the players live and work in California, New Mexico, Texas, and other western states, with plenty of open space for rocket launching. Likening his research to "hanging out in the Wright brothers' barn," Belfiore offers an inspiring and entertaining look at people who are not afraid to make their bold dreams a reality.
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Exciting reading .......2007-10-18
ROCKETEERS: HOW A VISIONARY BAND OF BUSINESS LEADERS, ENGINEERS, AND PILOT IS BOLDLY PRIVATIZING SPACE tells of how personal aircraft designers are entering the previously-government-dominated world of commercial space ventures, beginning in 2004 with designer Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne. From individual investor plans to produce the first commercial space station/hotel to efforts of small-time rocket launchers, ROCKETEERS charts the relatively new emergence and rise of a new, privatized space industry and makes for exciting reading indeed, recommended for both college-level business libraries and general-interest lending collections alike.
Diane C. Donovan
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The Rocketeers.......2007-10-02
The book was an interesting, easy to read review of the work being done by capitalists to take advantage of the innate lumbering nature of government.
I found the book darn near inspiring - watching men and women who have a vision and are willing to chase that vision no matter the cost.
I recomend this book for anyone who wants to get an idea of just what's going on out there and who is looking to be encouraged about our efforts to break out into space.
Rocketeers picks up where "The Right Stuff" leaves off.......2007-08-27
If you grew up in the 60s or 70s, if you ever thought you might accompany Haywood Floyd on his Pan Am jet into orbit in 2001, if you ever ate Space Food Sticks or drank Tang, if you ever wondered what the hell happened to the space program, and what humanity's next step into the final frontier might look like, Rocketeers is a must read book.
Like Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff", I found I couldn't put Rocketeers down. It brought back my own memories of what Belfiore calls "the first space age," as it sets the stage for today, the dawn of the second space age. The visionaries, the entrepeneurs and business people making the second space age a reality are our contemporaries. Many of these people assumed, as did so many of us, that after Apollo, a boom of private space activity would propel thousands, perhaps millions, of people into life in orbit, or on the moon.
I'm not a libertarian, and I confess that I've always resisted the analysis that NASA is to blame for the end of the first space age. With no political axe to grind, Belfiore has converted me to this school of thought. What the Rocketeers have managed to do, creating reusable, working craft carrying people into space, has been accomplished with the money NASA might have devoted to developing a zero-gravity menstrual pad.
Belfiore's historical comparisons with the development of comercial aviation, and the importance of Charle's Limberg's trans-atlantic flight, came as nothing short of a revelation. Lindberg crossed the Atlantic with no new technology, no government hand out, with nothing but courage, his own experience as an aviator--and the promise of a cash prize.
Belfiore's illumenation of the development of the X-prize, and it's capture by the Space Ship One team brought me the chill's that reading Heinlein's Rocket Ship Galileo did as a 12 year old.
In short, this book gave me a hope for the future of humanity that I haven't had since I was a teenager.
I can count on the fingers of one hand books that have done that for me in the last decade.
An Accurate and Brilliant Description of the Industry.......2007-08-27
I am a propulsion engineer at SpaceX and have spent roughly 40 days this year conducting engine testing in Texas. Mr. Belfiore does an amazing job of capturing the experience of being inside the control room and out on the stand. Additionally, his descriptions of X-Prize founder Peter Diamandis, Scaled Composites, Bigelow Aerospace, and the other players in the nascent field of commercial spaceflight are interesting and intriguing. A must read for anyone interested in this industry.
Nice overview.......2007-08-26
Fairly short and easy to read magazine-style investigative-journalistic
human interest narrative about some of the exciting people and companies
involved in America's burgeoning private space industry: the X Prize,
Burt Rutan, Virgin Galactic, Elon Musk, Robert Bigelow and a few others.
I thought the best chapters were about Burt Rutan and winning the
XPrize, in particular the blow by blow account of all the troubles they
had, very edge of the seat; also the backgrounds of Elon Musk and Robert
Bigelow. As a journalistic work it is ephemeral and will be outdated
(except as a source for later writers) but if your fascinated by
the events, people and rocket ships, this is an excellent overview valuable right now,
it's still too early to write the history. Belfiore writes for a number of periodicals like
Popular Science, Wired, New Scientists, and claims to be one of only a
few who are covering this exciting new industry, so he will certainly be
an author to watch in the years ahead.
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Entrepreneurial Transitions focuses on the unique needs of entrepreneurs to understand the difference between leadership and management, recognize entrepreneurial behaviors and how they impact organizations, realize why changes in their behavior are critical to the long-term viability of their businesses, and acquire powerful skills to enhance entrepreneurial traits and transition to Visionary Leadership.
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Brilliance!.......2000-11-30
This book has become my "go to" resource when I need to get through to senior managers and executives within companies that are caught in transition paralysis. The different stages an Entrepreneur goes through will catch many of you smiling and nodding your heads as you see these traits in your organizations. If you read, internalize, and apply the easy to understand concepts, you will see a difference in your organizations.
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Visionaries brings together the lives and works of 100 great men and women who offered inspiration, hope and healing.
The 20th century was marked by wars, dictatorships and environmental destruction, yet many individuals kept alive the hope of a sane and sustainable future through their example, ideas and vision. Their influence helped to bring to end colonialism and imperialism, apartheid and authoritarian regimes, and they also helped to foster the resurgence of an ecological, holistic and spiritual vision that increasingly resonates in the world today. Visionaries includes articles about:
• world leaders: Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and The Dalai Lama
• spiritual figures: Krishnamurti, Desmond Tutu, Thomas Moore, and Thich Nhat Hanh
• writers: Wendell Berry, Kahlil Gibran, Aldo Leopold, and Arundhati Roy
• scientists: Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall and James Lovelock
• educators: Ivan Illich and Rabindranath Tagore
• economists: E. F. Schumacher and Muhammad Yunus
• ecological activists: Vandana Shiva, Terry Tempest Williams, and Wangari Maathai, among others within each category.
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An inspiring volume.......2007-06-17
VISIONARIES: THE 20TH CENTURY'S 100 MOST IMPORTANT INSPIRATIONAL LEADERS provides high school and college-level students with a series of essays which considers the lasting influence of 20th century visionaries who helped change the world. Many struggled for years in obscurity, operating behind the scenes of common leadership: others have been largely recognized. From writers, scientists and educators to world leaders and spiritual figures, essays analyze the lives, teachings and works of these ecological, spiritual visionaries. Both school and general-interest collections will find it an inspiring volume as appropriate for classroom assignment as for leisure reading.
Diane C. Donovan
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The Visionary Leader
Robert Wall ,
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Release Date: 1994-09-19 |
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The strength of a leader's vision and the ability to articulate that vision to employees will be the measure of leadership in the 21st century. This book is designed to help define that vision for leaders everywhere.
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- You, Too, Are Called to Live a Life Beyond the Ordinary
- A powerful,powerful book for women and an eye-opener for men
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Praying with Visionary Women
Bridget Mary Meehan
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You, Too, Are Called to Live a Life Beyond the Ordinary.......1999-12-02
Bridget Mary Meehan shows us that every single one of us is called to live a life beyond the ordinary. She presents the stories of mystics and activists in a language appealing to today's readers. You get to read about women who open a path of beauty and passionate living that can inspire everyone. What a great gift book this is for everyone from teens to seniors!
A powerful,powerful book for women and an eye-opener for men.......1999-10-19
Praying with Visionary Women by Bridget Mary Meehan and Illustrated by Doris Klein,CSA (Sheed and Ward,1999) Praying with Visionary Women is a powerful,powerful book for women -and an eye-opener for men.Going back to the Celtic Brigit of Kildare, all the way to our times when a black women "made Bishops dance",we are treated to a host of women who made a difference in their times,often with great difficulty and personal hardship. The book is powerful as a guide for women who,in our time,are seeking "equality" in the work-place,in the Church,and in the life of "man"kind on Earth.It gives them the knowledge that the "impossible" is possible;that men,even bishops and Popes,can be "taught" that women can,and should, contribute to the world outside the home. Besides the above,as the title proclaims,this book guides one to pray with these courageous women,women such as,Joan of Arc,Teresa of Avila,Elizabeth Seton,the first native-born U.S. Saint,Dorothy Day,co-founder of the Catholic Worker,and Jean Donovan,who was murdered with three other Church women,while working with the poor of El Salvador. After recounting the life of the these wonderful women,we are invited to become one with them,in prayer and contemplation;to enter into their lives and have them enter into ours,so we may have the strength of their example to work for peace and justice and the betterment of mankind and the world.Highly recommended.
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- Cheap and concise, but with problems.
- A fan book on Churchill
- A Well-Written Synopsis, but Not a Great Work of Historical Writing
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Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian.
John Lukacs
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John Lukacs has spent a lifetime considering the complex personality and statesmanship of Winston Churchill. In previous books Lukacs has told the story of Churchill's titanic struggle with Adolf Hitler in the early days of World War II. Now, in Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian., he turns his attention to Churchill the man and visionary statesman. Each chapter of this book provides an essential portrait of Churchill. Lukacs treats Churchill's vital relationships with Stalin, Roosevelt, and Eisenhower, as well as his complex, farsighted political vision concerning the coming of World War II and the Cold War. Lukacs also assesses Churchill's abilities as a historian looking backward into the origins of the conflicts of which he was so much a part. In addition, the author examines the often contradictory ways Churchill has been perceived by critics and admirers alike.
The last chapter is a powerful and deeply moving evocation of the three days Lukacs spent in London attending Churchill's funeral in 1965. In Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian., Lukacs deftly sets forth the essence of this towering figure of twentieth-century history with the consummate mastery of a great historian.
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Interesting but uneven.......2006-12-05
This is another of the "short" Churchill books that have become popular over the last several years and are less than full blown biographies but more than just private musings of the author. This author has an engaging style and if you've read any of his previous books on this subject it should come as no surprise that this book is for the most part a positive portrayal. The book covers the several themes stated in the title with a varying degree, (in this reader's opinion), of success. The high points include insight into Churchill's role, (and motivation), as an historian, his role with Stalin and the division of post WWII Europe and the evolution of Churchill's relationship with Eisenhower, (maybe the best chapter in the book). Considering all that has been written on Churchill this reader found some "new" perspectives and food for thought in the above. On the downside, several of the other chapters - the rehashing of Gallipoli, Churchill's "wilderness" years do not provide much detail or insight and the last chapter - a journal entry written contemporaneously describing Churchill's funeral - was little more than filler to this reader. This disparity in the writing is unfortunately one of the salient points I took away from the book. That being said, (written), this book would not be the place to start with Churchill but it is a more than an adequate supplement.
Cheap and concise, but with problems........2006-02-27
I read this book here in Brazil, last year.It's cheap, concise and easy to understand.There's failures in this book?Yes.
At first, this book is biased.John Lukacs is a Churchill's fan.
To exemple, Mr. Churchill was a deeply eugenist.This book never talks about this.Another exemple is that in 1899, Winston Churchill spoke against Islam something like this:"How dreadfull are the curses which mohammedanism slays on its votaries...No stronger retrograde force exists in the world..."
The core of this book is to show Churchill after 1930.Even this, it fails sometimes.In chapter 4, Lukacs claims that Eisenhower was wrong about than USSR, and Churchill was right.In fact both were right.The american politics for Cold War, was basically the same, for every american president, since Truman,in 1945, to George Bush in 1991.
Churchill also was among the men who created Iraq.Churchill also put the last Iran's Xah in power.All of these Churchill's mistakes aren't in this book.
This is a fan's book, not an unbiased book.
A fan book on Churchill.......2006-01-28
What we have is a series of essays written about Churchill by a man who is both a highly regarded historian and a fan.
The last essay, I found quite moving where he discusses his time at Churchill funeral.
Yet the quality of these essays is not brilliant. In some ways they are repetitive with the same facts repeated again in another essay. Also the writer is also prone to exaggeration eg that the Germans could in June or July 1940 successfully invaded Britain.
I have read much on Churchill and found this book disappointing maybe as from a historian of the quality of John Lukacs, I expected more.
A Well-Written Synopsis, but Not a Great Work of Historical Writing.......2005-12-04
This was my first book by Lukacs and I am not a historical scholar. I picked it up to learn more about Churchill, and where this admirable leader was coming from. If you are looking for a primer or a thorough biography of W.S., this is not the book for you. However, if you are already familiar with his background, ancestry, and accomplishments in detail, this book serves as a kind of postmortem love letter.
It is certainly well-written--Lukacs is a talented writer who knows how to turn a phrase, as he exhibits in his diary entries describing Churchill's funeral. However, for all of W.S.'s greatness, Lukacs seems a doggedly loyal to the man and utterly resistant to any criticism. There is also noticeable resentment toward Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and other American officials, as the author apotheosizes Churchill above any and all other leaders during the most critical time in 20th century history. Regardless of the veracity of his position, I would recommend reading up on other perspectives to temper Lukacs' ode to Churchill's infallibility.
Overall, this is a brief and awe-inspiring read: a worthy eulogy for a worthy man that sometimes sparkles in prose, sometimes fizzles in excessive reverence.
The Ever-Lasting Appeal of Churchill.......2004-06-14
John Lukas clearly states at the beginning of his short book that his collection of essays is neither a biography nor a scholarly study of Winston Spencer Churchill (pg. xiii). Therefore, potential readers of Lukas' book who do not know anything about the key milestones in the life and career of Churchill should not start here. These readers can read books such as "Churchill a Life", "Churchill a Study in Greatness", "Clementine Churchill The Biography of a Marriage", "Winston and Clementine The Personal Letters of the Churchills" or "The Wit & Wisdom of Winston Churchill" to fill in the most glaring gaps in their knowledge of Churchill for that purpose.
Lukas writes to the attention of an audience who has an unquenchable thirst to know more and more about an individual who remains a source of inspiration to many men and women who stand in the way of barbarity and illiberalism around the world.
Although Lukas is generally sympathetic to Churchill, he is not blind to his major shortcomings: impetuosity, impatience, stubbornness and fancifulness (pg. 4, 154). Furthermore, Lukas reminds his audience in his essay "His Failures. His Critics" that Churchill had accumulated errors and mistakes that Churchill critics and detractors were attributing to his flawed character (pg. 129). For example, Churchill's futile fight against granting Dominion status to India from 1929 to 1935 was perhaps compatible with his imperialist credentials but certainly a clear blemish on his record. As a very experienced politician and knowledgeable historian at that time, Churchill should have known much better (pg. 14-15, 24, 135-136). Therefore, Lukas' collection of essays should not be construed as a shameful hagiography.
Furthermore, Lukas reminds his audience in "Churchill's historianship" and "Churchill the visionary" that Churchill was generally cognizant of the lessons that he could draw from past events to articulate his often-visionary policies while reflecting on and shaping history on his turn (pg. 1-18, 47). Churchill was not only a spectator, but also a key actor and play writer of human comedy (pg. 102).
Lukas also explores the ups and downs that Churchill had in his relationships with other history shapers such as Charles De Gaulle, Dwight Eisenhower, Adolf Hitler, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin (pg. 19-20). Lukas convincingly explains that Churchill was facing an unpalatable choice between a Europe entirely ruled by Nazi Germany or half of Europe dominated by the Communists in case of allied victory (pg. 11, 27-28, 35). Churchill rightly first gave top priority to successfully fighting Hitler to death before trying in vain to stop Stalin in 1944-1945. Unlike some unimaginative people, Churchill understood right at the birth of the Soviet Union that the Bolsheviks should be stopped immediately before they grew into a gathering threat to the world. War-weary, the victors of WWI, unfortunately, gave only half-hearty support to the White Russians in their desperate fight against the Soviets (pg. 23). Once again, long-term pains were the reward for short-term gains.
Some (American) readers will not be very pleased while reading Lukas' unflattering portrait of Eisenhower and the men around him in "Churchill and Eisenhower." As mentioned above, Churchill was definitely right to try to thwart in 1944-1945 the apparently irresistible advance of the Soviets in Central and Eastern Europe. Churchill clearly understood that geography and territory mattered, not ideology (pg. 42). For that reason, the British army met the Russians east of the entry to the Danish peninsula at the request of Churchill in 1945 (pg. 45). Unfortunately, the American leadership did not want to hear anything about it at that time (pg. 35-40, 46). Some European regions such as former East Germany and the Czech Republic should have been eventually spared the murderous and inefficient rule of the former Soviet Union (pg. 43). The Greeks should continue to be very thankful to Churchill for saving them from a communist tyranny (pg. 41, 48).
In his famous, visionary Iron Curtain speech in 1946, Churchill expressed his concern with the murderous, inefficient embrace of Communism in the European regions under Stalin's control. American reception of this historic speech was at best lukewarm (pg. 47). Churchill knew better and was predicting at the end of 1952 that time was not on the side of Communism (pg. 48, 79).
After the death of Stalin in 1953, Churchill, Prime Minister again, could not convince his friend Eisenhower, who in the meantime became President of the U.S.A., of finding some kind of accommodation with the new Soviet leadership (pg. 70, 73-74). Subsequent events proved that Eisenhower was right when he saw no difference after Stalin was gone (pg. 71, 77). Contrary to what Lukas thinks, Eisenhower should not be described as a leader without any vision under the nefarious influence of men such as John Foster Dulles (pg. 79-80). Many western leaders shared Eisenhower's views on this subject (pg. 81-82). The former Soviet Union was not yet in sufficient decline in the early 1950s to negotiate in a position of force with it as world leaders such as President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher understood very well in the 1980s.
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