It's Broken, Let's Fix It [Hardcover]

Gerard De Beuckelaer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 18, 2001 | ISBN-10: 3540673253 | ISBN-13: 978-3540673255 | Edition: 1

This book takes a hard look at the behavior of the modern enterprise as it evolves in this increasingly complex universe. It offers a thoroughly candid analysis of the way things really worktaking the perspective of people being both the perpetrators and the victims in the corporate game. The objective of this critical analysis is to stimulate thought about the modern enterprise and its interaction with humanity and culture. In essence, to understand things and find ways to improve them.

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We used to have this saying: "If it ain't broken, don't fix it." It was a powerful piece of wisdom. But then, the re-engineering fashion emerged and that changed everything. This book describes the behavior of the "creature" enterprise as it evolves in an in-creasingly complex universe. What is this elusive creature really like? Are we able to understand its survival and reproduction mechanisms and its interaction with humanity and culture? The book offers a rather merciless analysis of the way things really work. It does so from a human perspective, as we, the people, are at the same time the perpetrators and the victims in the corporate game. The objective is not to indoctrinate or even convince, but to stimulate thought: Let's try to understand these things, and then find ways to improve them, without breaking more than we already have.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 293 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (December 18, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3540673253
• ISBN-13: 978-3540673255
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,535,162 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A fascinating view of the "auto-pilot" of society., March 6, 2004

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This review is from: It's Broken, Let's Fix It (Hardcover)

This book is a very different, lively, and believable analysis of what is going on in corporations and society.

It is also very entertaining, written in a conversational tone with just a tiny hint of occasional European syntax that brings fond memories of long philosophical conversations over coffee. And moderate, looking at the whole picture -- stockholders, executives, middle managers, workers, customers, Wall Street analyts.

However, it does not offer solutions that look realistic -- one of them is better laws, which is quite impossible by the arguments presented in the book! I give it 4.5 stars, really, and if the solutions were workable, it'd be 10.

Folks who love the "Wackadamia" music CD by "Dr. Jane" will love this book.