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All You Gotta Do Is Ask

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This book is the best one I have read on helping a company engage it's employees to move ahead of the competition.

Everyone in management should read this book. Even if you aren't in management, as an employee this book might be of use in helping you understand why your company needs your ideas, it is well worth the price.

As Alan Robinson, author of Ideas Are Free, states in the foreword, the book "explains how to promote large numbers of ideas from your employees, something most organizations do very poorly, if at all."

All You Gotta Do Is Ask is simple and profound, it should be read, heard, understood, and implemented. The main insight is that companies can compete more effectively by paying attention to their people's improvement ideas.

I was really interested in reading a book that promised to give a deep understanding on how to get people involvement and how to manage that process; also the authors' biographies were very promising.
So I was really surprised and puzzled when reading page after page I could extract only generic advice (already known) and couldn't find anything useful, with some exception (see interview chapter XXII). Just reading the title is enough to get the message.
Luckily, the companion book "The Idea Generator: Quick & Easy Kaizen" is much better.

As I read this book, I began to think of organizations in a new way. It opened my eyes to how businesses can improve. I always thought real improvement ideas needed to come from management, engineering, or a research and development department.

The authors have practical experience in transforming organizations by applying the principles described in this book. Real improvement comes through the people who do the work.

I strongly recommend this to anyone remotely interested in the survival of their organization.

This book explains the human side of lean implementation in a meaningful way. Involvement of people in the process of eliminating waste, process improvement and smoothing is at the heart of successful lean. Within the context of implementing lean priniciples, the examples and methods discussed in "All You Gotta Do Is Ask" pose the question, "Is leadership really leading?" Without the involvement of operators, lean becomes a documentation exercise rather than a way to talk to all workers about the stuff that helps.

This book contained many thoughts and examples from Japan that were new and valuable to me. It's a pity that certain phrases are repeated through the book to the point of nagging. I think that the reader would get the message anyway.

This book did not provide any new information plus I did not like the writing style. It could have been down as a pamplet or even put on a poster. Several years ago I read a book by Jack Stack called The Great Game of Business that did a much better job.

This is a brilliant book and I would recommend every management, either big or small to read it.
This book takes you in a voyage of how you can get your employees to be more involved. As all of us know the economy is dropping and all the help that we can get from our own employee is a blessing.

This is an excellent book, and it is one of the best books that i have read. Unlike other books the authors of this book have done a great job in using simple "Lingo" for everyone to understand. I would strongly recommend this book to all levels of the management since they tend to make this topic more complicated than necessary. This book very simple to understand yet powerful enough to send the message across - "All You Gotta Do Is Ask".