Power Tools: 33 Management Inventions You Can Use Today [Paperback]

Sam Deep (Author), Lyle Sussman (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0201772973 | ISBN-13: 978-0201772975 | Publication Date: January 5, 1998 | Edition: 1

Every day managers wish they could open their desks, pull out a power tool, and fix a knotty problem for good. Now they can reach for Power Tools. In what has been called “their inimitable, cut-to-the-core style,” Deep and Sussman chop through the biggest challenges of management.Having consulted for organizations ranging from Alcoa to the Pittsburgh Symphony, from General Electric to Southwestern Bell, Deep and Sussman know the responsibilities managers face. And they know what works. Power Tools shows how to fix problems like these: Friction keeps team members from working well together? You’ll make permanent improvements with Team Builder and Team Links. Setting strategy? You’ll find half a dozen tools to help, from analyzing trends with Vista to Deep and Sussman’s ten-step Strategic Planner. Employees complain it’s hard to get useful customer feedback? Teach them the power of One-Finger Questions. Want to make your idea shine? Take five minutes and learn to Sell It. Here you’ll find the techniques, tips, and tactical advice that consultants might provide, presented so clearly that they can be do-it-yourself projects with minimal costs. Power Tools is the toolbox that all managers should have in their desks.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Just as professionals in other fields need to continuously upgrade various tools and techniques in order to meet their consistently changing requirements, business people must regularly seek out and incorporate new management ideas if they hope to keep their organizations operating at peak levels. In Power Tools: 33 Management Inventions You Can Use Today, consultants Sam Deep and Lyle Sussman lay out a series of innovations designed to address five specific areas of ongoing challenge: leadership, teamwork, motivation, improvement, and balance. Helpful checklists and step-by-step instructions make their suggestions easy to understand and implement.

From Library Journal

The authors, who conduct seminars for and consult with several Fortune 500 companies and governmental bodies, have coauthored three books on management, e.g., Yes, You Can (Addison-Wesley, 1996). Their new book is composed of 33 short chapters that can be used as needed. After presenting five management challengesAleadership, teamwork, motivation, continuous improvement, and balanceAthe authors explore 64 problems and then recommend specific tools for countering them. They acknowledge that their quick fixes often need further study, but they have successfully created a handy book that can help businesses solve management problems at many levels. Public, special, and academic libraries that serve businesses and business students should have this volume.ALittleton M. Maxwell, Business Information Ctr., E. Clairborne Robins Sch. of Business, Univ. of Richmond, VA
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 233 pages
• Publisher: Basic Books; 1 edition (January 5, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201772973
• ISBN-13: 978-0201772975
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,208,740 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Practitioners Best Kept Secret, August 23, 2000

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Tara Dillon (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews

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My bookshelf is jammed full of all kinds of management books. Most of them, after an initial reading, gather dust. Power Tools is the exception. As a consultant, I refer to it at least once a month & actually use the suggested "tools". I've utilized the Envision process numerous times & each time it works like a charm. In one day, a group can painlessly create drafts of their vision & value statements. The "tools" provided are practical & apply to common company situations. This portable blue book is my best kept secret! SShh...don't tell my clients!

4.0 out of 5 stars Back to the Basics of Management Challenges, September 6, 2004

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Vivek Dixit (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews

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Another `cut-to-the-core style' book from Sam Deep. It talks about five basic Management challenges - Leadership, Teamwork, Motivation, Continuous Improvement and Balance. The "tools" presented are practical & relevant to day-to-day business situation. It is written with an intellectual rating scale of intricacy. A good reference book for managers. Lot of common sense used, but common sense is sometimes most uncommon thing.......Vivek Dixit,Stanford.edu

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5.0 out of 5 stars Power Tools - Practical, Powerful and Easy to use!, July 18, 2001

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Cynthiann King (Wauconda, IL USA) - See all my reviews

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This book is jammed with practical ideas and exercises to help any manager's performance in dealing with people, performance and products. It is clearly written and user friendly with a clever rating scale of difficulty and resources needed to accomplish the intervention strategy highlighted in each section. I continue to suggest this excellent resouce book at every Managers Educational Seminar that I conduct!...