Advanced Project Portfolio Management and the PMO: Multiplying ROI at Warp Speed

Advanced Project Portfolio Management and the PMO: Multiplying ROI at Warp Speed
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Excellent PMO book

A good, solid book

Implementing a PMO

A must-read for project-based organizations

how to make your projects work for your business

Advanced Project Portfolio Management and the PMO: Multiplying ROI at Warp Speed
Gerald I. Kendall , and Steven C. Rollins
Manufacturer: J. Ross Publishing
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Book Description

This comprehensive book covers the strategy, tactics, and processes needed for successful project portfolio management. It outlines a road map to unprecedented project management improvement and includes a detailed implementation plan for both strategic planning and a PMO that gives you measurable results in weeks. The authors delineate four processes that get a PMO off the ground much faster, driving bottom-line value almost immediately. It includes real PMO case studies, provides a way to evaluate your PMO, illustrates how Six Sigma and the PMO can support each other and be used to drive bottom-line value and presents the new Theory of Constraints 4x4 method of strategic planning and the Critical Chain Multi-Project Management approach. . This book shows you how to turn a PMO into a value machine.

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Excellent PMO book.......2007-09-10

I help corporations build PMOs. This book does a great job of covering some of latest and most effective thinking, tools and techniques in the business.
The author does a great job covering many of the project management approaches available today. He especially does a great job explaining the use of Lean, Critical Chain and Scrum techniques.

A must for every professionals bookshelf.

A good, solid book.......2007-05-15

I really liked this book for it's "advanced" nature. I think that if you're just starting out on the path towards a PMO it might be a bit much but for anyone serious about managing their project portfolio in a way that adds value, it hits the mark.

Implementing a PMO.......2005-08-16

Overall a good book, with lots of good advice for those starting or improving a PMO.

However it got a bit hung up in the necesity of directly adding value to every project, e.g. by reducing cyckle time and increaing throughput. My organization cleary sees the value of implementing a PMO, but does not necesarily want to change our whole approach to Project Management.

Still, not a bad read...

A must-read for project-based organizations.......2004-08-14

A very complete book on the subject of project management offices (PMO). It presents a complete and practical how-to guide to selling, establishing, running, and controlling PMOs in organizations, with a constant eye on the business value (ROI).

The section on strategic planning was an eye opener for me in terms of the value that a PMO can bring to the organization in supporting the selection of the `right' projects, i.e. a well balanced project mix that maximizes the return on investment of the portfolio. It is my experience that few organizations think in those terms and it often results in project selections being made based on the clout of their `champions' or by simply jumping from emergency to emergency, strategic projects becoming more the exception than the rule, with the negative bottom line impacts that it implies. Obviously there lies also the greatest challenge of the PMOs given that they have to carve a role for themselves in the high spheres of management where those decisions are made. They also need to instill in management the rigor of project selection, above and beyond mere intuition or customer pressures. This is truly where the strategic value of the PMO is.

Another compelling aspect of the book is the incorporation of the principles of the theory of constraints (TOC). For the organizations that are interested in reaping the benefits of critical chain project management (CCPM) for instance and applying TOC to maximize project flow in their organization, this is a plus. This is one of the rare books that addresses PMO in the context of TOC. The readers should quickly be able to envision the bottom line impact that an efficient and strategic PMO (at the portfolio level) combined with the well documented results of CCPM implementations at the project level could have in their organizations.

how to make your projects work for your business.......2004-06-24

This book is great.
It provides a comprehensive, step by step approach to project management.
It gave us some outstanding tips and insights that enabled our projects to deliver more with less and have greater impact on our business. Reading this book provided us with a robust governance structure, tools, processes and frameworks which followed through to the bottom line. The benefit of implementing the concepts of this book blew us away.
It is a must read for project managers and project management executives.

Emotional Healing at Warp Speed: The Power of EMDR

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Readable introduction to the power of EMDR
Experienced this method
OK, if you buy into the theory of EMDR
Recommend!
As a former patient of Dr. Grand...

Emotional Healing at Warp Speed: The Power of EMDR
David Grand
Manufacturer: Harmony
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ASIN: 0609607464
Release Date: 2001-08-21

Book Description

Emotional Healing at Warp Speed provides a popular introduction to a miraculous new psychotherapeutic method called EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). In these pages psychotherapist David Grand, Ph.D., describes his own first encounter with EMDR, then recounts the dramatic results of bringing this new therapy into the lives of his patients. By alternately stimulating the left and right sides of the brain to clear psychological blocks and resolve trauma, EMDR helped Grand’s patients put the pieces of their emotionally shattered lives back together with a speed that exceeded his wildest dreams.

Grand’s use of EMDR has helped people from all walks of life, from railroad engineers reliving the nightmare of death on the tracks to mothers of children killed on the mean streets of America’s inner cities, from bomb victims in Belfast and Oklahoma City to Arabs and Israelis traumatized by decades of hatred and violence. His account of this work inspires and touches the reader’s heart as it reveals the healing power of a process that works as swiftly as thought itself.

Grand takes EMDR–developed by Francine Shapiro, M.D., only fourteen years ago–far beyond its initial use in healing trauma. In addition to turbo- charging breakthroughs in psychotherapy, Grand uses EMDR to clear away blocks to performance and creativity. Remarkable examples show athletes, actors, musicians, and artists improving their performance, and a self-use chapter describes practical ways readers can apply this remarkable method to resolve fear of public speaking, enhance creativity, enjoy deeper, more restful sleep, resolve stress and anxiety, and much more.

Customer Reviews:

Readable introduction to the power of EMDR.......2007-09-16

David Grand presents an approachable description of a powerful psychological technique that deserves much more interest in the community.

Experienced this method.......2006-03-26

I have not read this book, HOWEVER I have experienced this method and it worked for me in 20 minutes FIRST TIME. I had been haunted with a very painful childhood memory well into adulthood, and within those 20 minutes, it became no longer painful, but an easy recall with NO PAIN attached!!! I am NOT one to go easily into hypnotism, though this isnt THAT... but only my idea it could be.. but this was so QUICK, I was totally amazed and highly recommend it when done with a compassionate professional. I wish more Professionals would learn and use it is all I can say!!
I am in NO WAY saying MY experience would be as fast or same for others.. depending on the problems... of course it will vary greatly... but in the end.. I recommend the method still.

OK, if you buy into the theory of EMDR.......2004-09-15

I had about 10 EMDR sessions from a trained, licensed psychologist, and found them very helpful. And this book does provide some interesting anecdotes of the author's experience first being trained to administer EMDR and then as a practitioner. But I think he is a bit over his head when it comes to really proving anything that it is the specifics of EMDR that are doing the healing. In a repartee with a skeptical therapist who claimed the eye movement part of EMDR may be extraneous, the author claimed he needn't do research studies to see whether EMDR worked by giving the analogy that if you see a man shooting another man, and the other man falls down dead, that is sufficient evidence the man died of the gunshot. Problem here is that there are lots more variables in EMDR. And one of them is whether it works just as well with or without the eye movement business since there is much else going on: visualization, empathic listening, re-experiencing, cognitive restructuring and the like. Thus, the gun analogy is downright idiotic. So, right off, I'm a bit suspicious about Grand's understanding, not merely of research, but of the basics of phenomenology. The other thing that bothers me is his application of EMDR to other uses such as acting training. Using the method in a modified way, he worked with an acting teacher: the results? The actors found it incredibly helpful. Well, first off, I don't think actors or acting teachers are the most reliable people to know what works and doesn't and why. It is also rather insulting to the acting traditions developed by such teachers as Strassberg and Sandy Miesner who spent their lives working in refining acting instruction, and who both were actors themselves. I think Grand is a bit full of himself.

Recommend!.......2004-04-12

Easy to read and helpful for understanding the process of EMDR. I would have to agree with the previous reviewer Laura M that PEACEFUL HEART : A Woman's Journey to Healing is a must-read. Aimee Jo Martin's story clearly illustrates and details her journey with successful EMDR treatments. Quite powerful if you want to really see how effective EMDR can be.

As a former patient of Dr. Grand..........2002-06-03

I was pleased to see that he had written a book that explains EMDR and the problems of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder patients. This is a great public service because so many people suffer trauma and could be treated effectively if only those around them had a better understanding and were better able to offer support. Read this book, if you haven't already, for the sake of those around you who suffer from PTSD. Everyone knows someone who has suffered this kind of trauma.

As much as I enjoyed the well-written descriptions of the treatments, the individual cases, and Dr. Grand's personal experiences, I found the chapters that dealt with the EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Program most valuable. Trauma in conflict-ridden areas left untreated, can cause more trauma, be handed down from generation to genertaion, and destroy the lives of multitudes. HAP brings training to war-torn areas and those affected by disasters. There cannot be peace in any part of the world if there is no peace in the minds of individuals.

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Technology has changed everything. Product life cycles are shorter. Consumers are more informed, demanding, elusive. And brands can no longer afford to be crafted over lengthy periods of time. Instead, writes advertising guru Agnieszka Winkler, a brand can--and must--be built at warp speed. She continues:

With the advent of new communications technologies, it is now possible to spread the word, like a village drumbeat, to all corners of the world in months, weeks, or even days. The drumbeat is often carried by the users themselves--a more believable source of information in our jaded, skeptical society.

By profiling agile companies such as Apple, America Online, and Amazon.com, Winkler exposes the first myth of branding: "A brand is built over a long time." Another myth: "A brand is precisely crafted for a tightly defined target." Reality: "A brand is expansive." Myth: "Brand the product." Reality: "Brand a bigger idea." Myth: "The brand is a marketing concept." Reality: "The brand is a financial concept." But the most important industry trend may be the role of the Internet, which has become an integral link between producer and consumer. Winkler's "Just Do It" Internet approach isn't groundbreaking, but the online opportunities are made quite clear. The Internet also pops up in the 31-question "Warp-Speed Branding Quiz," which measures a company's readiness to tackle branding with warp speed. Marketers and advertisers who fail this test are well advised to get up to speed. --Rob McDonald

Book Description

"Time to market" is now the operative phrase for companies around the globe. Consumer and employee are simultaneously shaped by and shaping the new knowledge economy. We are no longer the linear, process-oriented rational world of the industrial revolution, and the traditional Procter & Gamble formulas for brand building are becoming increasingly obsolete.

Warp-Speed Branding will challenge your current thinking and launch you into the new and creative ways today's hottest technology companies are tackling branding, leaving traditional ways of building brands far behind. These companies represent the meteoric rise of the technology culture and how it is moving through the worlds of marketing and advertising, transforming businesses in the blink of an eye and the click of a mouse.

In this groundbreaking book, expert Agnieszka Winkler's compelling insight clearly shows how technology's presence in every business environment has already changed the role of the brand builder. Winkler's perspective reconsiders some of the standard marketing truths learned at the knee of consumer product giants like Procter & Gamble, Unilever, and Colgate-Palmolive. Now technology companies such as Microsoft, Intel, and AOL embody innovation and change and are rewriting the rules of brand creation. With Warp-Speed Branding, you'll see how to apply some of their lessons.

The book exposes six myths of branding and replaces them with new truths in a "warp-speed world." Fascinating case studies detail the branding success stories behind Sony, Intel, Amazon.com, Dell, and others, out of which emerge principles, guidelines, and action steps. You'll learn: The new branding skills, attitudes, and processes companies need to make it in a warp-speed world; How advertising agencies can adjust their processes and mindsets to help clients achieve faster time to market; How to identify and manage your company's Brand Ecosystem; How to take advantage of the extraordinary branding opportunities presented by the Internet

With passion and incisive thinking, Agnieszka Winkler gives you the new marketing lessons to be learned from today's technology leaders--and how to apply them to your own brand of success.

Praise for Warp-Speed Branding

"We have all experienced the acceleration of our lives and our work towards Internet speed. Ms. Winkler has given us anecdotes, tem-plates and commonsense advice, all focused on teaching us how to use the acceleration of technology to build better brands, products, and organizations." -- Paul Otellini, Executive Vice President, Intel Corporation

"This book is an engaging must-read for all brand shepherds, young and old. The rapid speed of global technological change has dramatically redefined all traditional concepts of consumers, stakeholders, marketing, and branding. Attitude, capability, and mass customization are now king." -- Carl James Yankowski, President & CEO, Reebok Brands

"For marketers who are charged with retaining or creating brand advantage in the future, this is a must read. You'll find a refreshing challenge to the status quo and new ideas to consider." -- Jan Soderstrom, EVP International Marketing, Visa International

"In the tradition of marketing classics, Winkler redefines what it takes to win at marketing in today's frenzied, everything-changing-at-once product development cycles." -- Steve Weiss, Founding Partner, Product Management Group

"Traveling with Agnieszka Winkler through Warp-Speed Branding is a thrill ride. . . . Her rich examples and colorful illustrations make Warp-Speed Branding essential reading for all who aspire to lead their organizations to unique and distinctive places in the millennium marketplace." -- Jim Kouzes, coauthor, The Leadership Challenge and Encouraging the HeartChairman, Tom Peters Group/Learning Systems

"A thought-provoking view of the huge impact of the Web lifestyle on brands and branding." -- Robert Herbold, EVP & COO, Microsoft Corporation.

Customer Reviews:

Disappointing advice.......2005-02-21

Perhaps with the benefit of hindsight, we can see the flaws in this book more clearly: far too many technology companies attempted to build their "brand" overnight and could not survive the dot-com crash.

Winkler's advice appears more suited to the internal efficiency processes of ad agencies than it does to the strategic guidance such agencies could provide their clients. If I were a technology advertiser, I would be very wary of taking the advice of this book. Given that Winkler Advertising no longer exists should be cause for concern for anyone considering her as an advisor.

There are many credible marketing/brand-building books on the market today, most of which can be found on Amazon. If you want to get solid advice you can trust from an ad agency, read Truth Lies & Advertising from Jon Steel, Eating the Big Fish and The Pirate Inside from Adam Morgan, or Under the Radar from Kirschenbaum & Bond.

Weak thinking.......2004-08-04

This book suggests that effective brands can be built overnight. It is very presumptuous, and also draws too heavily on the author's personal experiences. I don't know how many of her clients survived the dot-com crash on this thinking, but I would not bet my business on it. There are lots of brand-building books available on amazon.com (anything by David Aaker is a good bet) and you would be better served by more responsible advice from other sources.

Very Disappointing.......2001-12-21

I am involved and interested in marketing for high-tech companies and start-ups as a career and purchased this book to help me do very fast "branding" for a start-up. I was greatly disappointed to find most of the information relating to what is possible with technology such as fast information dissemination, and online collaboration, etc. That is good information for people who don't know this stuff is possible, but is not very useful for people looking for a marketing book that will tell you how to "brand" a product any faster than you would normally be able to do it.

I would label the book a "how to work more efficiently" type book for the advertising industry. Not at all useful given its title.

Insightful!.......2001-06-02

Advertising expert Agnieszka M. Winkler offers an insider’s perspective on how technology has changed marketing and advertising. Writing with clarity and confidence, she outlines the steps advertisers and marketers must take to keep pace. She cites high-profile companies like Dell Computers and Amazon as examples of brands that were built in months, not years. These examples illustrate her sometimes complex concepts, and make them more accessible. Unfortunately, she also devotes a large amount of space to what amounts to a commercial for an adverting software application that she’s trying to sell. But for readers who can stomach the pitch, we recommend this book to those who work in marketing, advertising, or related industries, and to those who are making the transition to technology-driven brand building. (Editor’s note: TeamToolz, one of the major resources covered in this book, is a pay-for-use service sold by the author.)

Not very useful information.......2000-09-28

The book assume and reader have a certain level of knowledge branding. It does not tell you how and why rather state only the what. The examples and case studies in this book is really pathetic. I feel that half of the book is certainly advertisement for the author's company. In conclusion, this book is definitely not worth reading if you do not have much time to spare.If you are serious about branding look somewhere else.

Manufacturing at Warp Speed: Optimizing Supply Chain Financial Performance (St. Lucie Press/Apics Series on Constraints Management,)

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Advanced TOC
Excellent
Must Read
Missed the point

Manufacturing at Warp Speed: Optimizing Supply Chain Financial Performance (St. Lucie Press/Apics Series on Constraints Management,)
Eli Schragenheim , and H William Dettmer
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Manufacturing systems don't exist in a vacuum, isolated from the rest of the company, but they are often managed that way. A truly effective, highly competitive manufacturing company integrates its manufacturing, marketing, sales, purchasing, and financial functions into a well-coordinated whole. Manufacturing at Warp Speed: Optimizing Supply Chain Financial Performance explains in detail how to coordinate all these functions to maximize sales revenue while controlling inventory and overhead costs. Ultimately, the effects of applying the new Simplified-Drum-Buffer-Rope (DBR II) introduced by the authors include dramatically faster manufacturing cycle times, shorter order-to-delivery lead times, higher on-time delivery reliability, and better customer satisfaction. The book gives you everything a typical production professional needs to implement this new DBR approach. A supplemental feature - the Management Interactive Case Study Simulator (MICSS) - is included with the book. This CD-ROM sets up a virtual company where you can test and practice the processes you learn in the book before implementing them in your organization. The book and software together constitute the complete package for learning how to streamline manufacturing operations. The first book available on second generation Drum-Buffer-Rope, Manufacturing at Warp Speed: Optimizing Supply Chain Financial Performance describes the simplest, most efficient methods for reducing manufacturing cycle time and increasing the speed of manufacturing yet devised. Fully illustrated, with numerous examples, case studies, and manufacturing scenarios, the book is so easy to read that even the novice can understand it. Correct use of this new method practically assures your company has the competitive advantage.

Customer Reviews:

Advanced TOC.......2005-01-22

If you want to truly dig into TOC and gain an advanced understanding, this it. Worth its weight in gold.

Excellent.......2001-06-11

A terrific for book for those wanting to bridge the gap between reading "The Goal" and putting it into everyday practice. The authors explain the fundamentals of Theory of Constraints and drum-buffer-rope scheduling, and present seductive logic for a new simplified drum-buffer-rope called S-DBR.

Through the use of diagrams called clouds, most people will immediately recognise a host of the day-to-day production problems that they face and the solutions for their removal. There is an important discussion of V, A, and T plant configurations that will help managers to better understand their own plants. The financial, tactical, and strategic implications of TOC are also investigated. Integral to the text is CD-ROM simulation that allows you to run various plants for a significant period of time in order to experience the undesirable effects and their solutions first-hand.

People who are serious about rapidly improving the bottom line performance of their organisations should read this book.

Must Read.......2001-06-04

The authors have shown us how the the Theory of Constraints can improve your business quickly and effectively. They clearly explain how it operates within existing legacy systems or can be used as the basis for a much improved brand new solution. If you are looking for the definitive reference source that answers those questions you have about TOC in a supply chain solution, then look no longer. "Manufacturing at Warp Speed" is a must read for those investigating leading edge solutions and for the seasoned TOC experts.

Missed the point.......2001-03-31

Sorry guys.....but this is a very POORLY written book. It has a tendency to bounce all over the place and leaves the reader wondering what point are they trying to make? It also discusses neanderthal technology. Haven't these guys heard of the "Three Step Method", or "Control Point Theory". I think if I were wanting information about how to "Manufacture at Warp Speed" I would think they should at least know how to get to warp speed. This books doesn't have the answers.......it missed the point.

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A recommended pick for prior fans
A good Sci-Fi read with a heart!
This puerule SF reader loved it.
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In the Classic HARD SF Mode - Doc does it again!

The Quantum Connection (Warp Speed)
Travis Taylor
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Steven Montana, computer whiz and hacker extraordinaire, was attending college in Ohio when his world fell apart. A swarm of huge meteors fell all over the world, on Europe, on the United States, and in particular on Steven¿s home town in California. In an instant, his family and all his friends were gone. Eventually, he learned that the ¿meteor¿ onslaught that had orphaned him had actually been a brief and still secret war between the U.S and its enemies (as told in Warp Speed) using a new warp drive technology that was more secret than top secret. Another secret was that U.S. had been sending faster-than-light ships to other star systems. Most secret of all was that unfriendly aliens were observing the Earth, and while U.S. spaceships were not quite in a war with the unknown aliens, they were shooting at the intruders. Whether any of these answers would do Steven any good was an open question because he learned them only after his was abducted by those very same aliens and was held prisoner on one of their ships orbiting Saturn. At first, he was one of three human prisoners, but he had just seen the aliens completely dissect one of the three, and it looked like either Steven, or the Russian girl who was his fellow prisoner, were scheduled to be the next alien lab experiment. . . .

Customer Reviews:

A recommended pick for prior fans.......2007-08-04

Travis S. Taylor's QUANTUM CONNECTION provides a sequel to WARP SPEED and is a recommended pick for prior fans. Steven is a computer whiz in college when a swarm of huge meteors falls across the world, killing his friends and family. A new world is created - and Steven becomes privy to the information that this new order also includes a new war.

A good Sci-Fi read with a heart!.......2006-11-22

Doc Taylor's second novel, "The Quantum Connection" follows on in the same world created by Taylor in "Warp Speed". This time however, the novel doesn't center around Dr. Clemons and his associates, instead Taylor introduces the reader to Steven Montana, a character who's life was profoundly changed by the events in the first book although we never new he existed in the first story.

Taylor shows Steven as a very human character. He's a computer geek who finds that his whole family and all his friends have died as a result of a rain of meteors that killed millions around the world (readers of "Warp Speed" know the real story there). The first third of the book follows Steven's ups and downs as he deals with this, with life and finally with a great opportunity to work for a government think tank reverse engineering foreign and sometimes possibly alien technologies.

The relationship between Steven and his dog, Lazarus, is one of the most interesting and touching parts of this novel. There are two kinds of dog owners in the world, ones for whom the dog becomes one of the family, and those for whom the dog is just another possession. Lazarus becomes Steven's only family, and a stabilizing force for him as he deals with erratic mood swings that the doctors tell him are part of dealing with his tremendous loss. Taylor's story uses the relationship between Steven and Lazarus as an underlying influence that helps guide Steven's actions and it allows the reader to understand his actions when tragedy does strike.

Of course at this point the novel sounds more like "Old Yeller" than a sci-fi action story, but the build up of Steven's relationship with Lazarus is important to this story. Taylor blends this element neatly into the plot right along with the aliens, super-technology, action and adventure that the book's cover art suggests. The move into the "meat" of the story is actually quite sudden as the book shifts gears radically with the introduction of the before mentioned aliens and more advanced technology. This also leads to Steven's introduction to Tatiana, a young daughter of a Russian diplomat to the U.N. who is in almost the same situation. Their relationship provides the impetus for emotional growth that all the high-tech cannot.

As has become a trademark with Taylor's work, the technology becomes a driving force in the story. Unlike "Warp Speed" which focused on the possibilities of faster than light travel, the technical focus in "The Quantum Connection" is nano-technology and the theory of the quantum connection (hence the title of the book) between all things. Taylor brings the reader into these concepts through Steven's own process of discovery and as the human's understanding of the alien technology expands, so does the reader's understanding of the underlying concepts behind it.

I'm not big on giving away a lot of the story, you should read the book for that! But I will say that some of the most interesting scenes in the book involve the interaction between Steven and Tatiana and the principle characters from "Warp Speed" as the desire to protect Earth from an alien threat brings them together. The initial meeting is fraught with misunderstanding since Steven and Tatiana are using alien technology and another high speed battle ensues that lays waste to a good portion of Earth's moon base before it is all resolved.

Taylor's blend of imaginative characters, technology, and an optimistic view of humanity's potential make for a very good read. There is plenty of action and suspense to keep you turning the pages, but in the end the thing that makes "The Quantum Connection" stand out is not the science (and oddly enough, I do feel smarter for having read the book), it's not the action and adventure; it's the story of Steven and his dog Lazarus. Many times it is the simplest things that have the most profound affects on a person and in this case one could say that it was a man's love for his dog that saved the world. I recommend you check out "The Quantum Connection" for yourself and see what I mean.

This puerule SF reader loved it........2006-09-25

Of course it is just comic-book mind candy. But it does so very well.
Hope there is no sequel? Then why is super-bad-guy Lex Luther (excuse me, Opolawn) not destroyed, but only isolated for a while?

I read this one without reading Warp Speed. I was about 100 pages into it and suddenly laughed out loud. This IS a great revival of the EE Smith genre. I say that as one who started reading SF when the mag covers were always a scanty clad human female in the grip of a BEM. I have not actually read Doc Smith in at least 40 years.

Lots of psudo-science lectures interspersed with comic-book super-hero action. Of course the superhero begins as a fat, depressed nerd stranded in delayed adolesence. Once he learns how to say SHAZAM! (communicate with the alien computer) all with be made right, including a set of six-pack abs. This too is a part of the proto-story.

The White-Trash Justice League.......2006-03-01

While from a certain perspective this novel makes for good brains-on-vacation reading, I have to express disappointment that Taylor doesn't explain how the super-technologically advanced aliens he imagined never understood the full potentials of the stuff they invented, apparently centuries or millennia ago, whereas his slacker human hero, the smart but not genius-level Steven Montana, could grasp them in short order. I would have found it helpful if a character conjectured something along the lines that technological species don't necessarily develop universally competent intelligence, but instead display differing abilities based on the problems they had to solve in their respective evolutionary histories. They can seem really smart in some areas and dumb in other areas, in other words. Otherwise how do you account for the fact that the Grey aliens didn't have firewalls against hackers and don't go around with AI-augmented and nanotech-hardened bodies?

The leader of the other advanced alien species could at least put up a real fight in bodily combat against enhanced humans, but Montana admits that the rumble resembled the comic-book battle between Superman and Doomsday. It just solves way too many problems for humanity when the upgraded Montana and his Russian girlfriend show up on the moon base and turn some of the characters from Taylor's previous novel, "Warp Speed," into Green Lantern-like superheroes, with the added bonus that they no longer experience aging.

I would also add that I didn't care for the vengeance fantasies in both novels. Taylor apparently suffers from the white Southerner's irrational touchiness about "honor," and he feels the need to have his characters take out his anger on both evil foreigners and meddling aliens.

In the Classic HARD SF Mode - Doc does it again!.......2006-02-10

In Warp Speed, Doc Travis presented us with a look into quantum physics and the AMAZING potentials it has in a stupendous ride of a story. In Quantum Connection, we get an additional look - with more possibilities. Super Science that could be happening tomorrow (or even today in a "black project"? - hmmmm, could be..?) We see the events of "warp speed" through a different perspective, and then it is kicked up a notch.
First and foremost - in this reviewer's opinion - ALL good science fiction most hold together logically. Quantum Connection does that quite well. Second, good science fiction has to have a story line that holds my interest - Quantum Connection did that VERY well. Third, good science fiction has to have characters that I can cheer for and/or identify with - once again Quantum Connection does this quite nicely. All "geeks" and "nerds" out there (myself included) can identify with the protaganist. I was wondering how it tied into "Warp Speed" at first, but trust me - it does.
I won't reiterate the story, reviewers before have done it well (in the multi-star reviews).
Again, as in "Warp Speed" this story is about BIG men and women doing larger than life things for the ones they love and for mankind as a whole. It begins in one man's private hell of a world - not of his own doing, as we find out - and ends with a challenge to the universe of "Don't Tread On US Humans".
If you are a liberal you WILL NOT like this story. If you are a person who thinks that aliens will land and "come in peace" to bring us the cure for cancer - you WILL NOT like this story. If you think the old story "To Serve Man" is as likely as "The Day the Earth Stood Still", then you will like it. (Don't know the reference? Go back and take Science Fiction 101 again). As in the reviews for Warp Speed", the "one star" reviews seem to be either politically based or from people who don't want to really think about science (in this old curmudgeon's opinion). In short, I loved it and am looking for the series to continue.
(Mark Twain once said "Classical literature is like fine wine. My books are like water; everybody drinks water.")
On the "Water" scale this is Mineral Spring water with shot of Apple Juice and just a dash of Jack Daniels for kick. (shaken, not stirred)

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Put a red "S" on his chest and call him Superman.
Promising start, falls apart
The best new science fiction novel I've read in years.
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Making the science in science fiction come alive!

Warp Speed
Travis Taylor
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Dr. Neal Anson Clemons, brilliant physicist and martial arts expert, was born at the very moment that men first landed on the moon, and his dream had always been to find a way to travel to the stars. And now he and his team have achieved a breakthrough, both in building a warp drive, and finding a new energy source powerful enough to make the drive more than an interesting theoretical concept. With the help of a beautiful Air Force Major and astronaut, Tabitha Ames, the US Government has funded the project, including assembly in orbit of the first faster-than-light probe. Unfortunately, forces working behind the scenes have much darker dreams, and they do not hesitate to blow up a space shuttle, attempt to kill Neal and Tabitha, and use the stolen warp technology to start what they expect to be a short victorious war with the United States. But Neal has ideas for using warp drive completely unsuspected by America's enemies, and repelling the all-out attack is only the beginning of a titanic struggle to reach the stars.

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Put a red "S" on his chest and call him Superman........2007-09-17

Here is the story in short...a brilliant scientist ,in the face of eminent danger,creates technology that saves the world. The Doctor is Anson Clemons. The world is Earth. The rest is pure ego.

The main character in this book would give Dr. Wayne Dyer an inferiority complex. Not only is he a maritial arts expert, chick magnet,the next Einstein...but he has the ability to let you know he is smarter than you.

NOw I know this is a fictional character. I know the author is a nice guy but what gives him the right to call Dr. Carl Sagan an "idiot" and a "junk scientist?" Thank goodness for the leadership Sagan showed in the scientific community and the great gift of communication he had with the public. He also was modest.

The characters in this book are supposed to resemble Robert Heinleins characters but it just get unbelievable when "Superman" Clemons,who distains the medical profession,fabricates a nano tech "cure" for a co- worker with no prior knowledge of medicine. This reminded me of the Superman comic book where Superman was called upon to operate on Lois Lane to save her but had to take a one day crash course in Medicine and Pass the medical board and get his MD so he could legally operate on her in a hospital. This guy can do anything.

Now i know I have not written a sci-fi novel or anything else,but i have read a lot of them. What i enjoy in a novel is new ideas and situations but the characters bringing this forth on the page have to be less self centered than these characters for me to care what they are doing. The scientific theory and reference to actual research being done is interesting. But the ongoing assumption of Dr Taylors work is that any alien contact will be hostile, any technolgy developed will be used for war by the communists or terrorists or anyone else that is not an
American. Basically ,just kill everyone but the true americans and let God sort it out.

Maybe if your world view is as paranoid as this book, you would enjoy it...mine is not.

Promising start, falls apart.......2007-08-13

This book starts out engagingly enough. We have a very opinionated first person narrator who is appealing even when I disagreed with his opinions. I have no problem with the initial hand-wavy science, but some of the basic plot elements don't work for me. First, there is no clear motive, or even a real guess at one by the characters as to why China took the actions it did. Second, the female lead is put in charge of funneling funds to the man who has become her lover, and this is before any emergency: talk about conflict of interest and questionable use of tax dollars. Third the narrator, the President, and apparently everyone else who counts approves the decision that WWIII will forever be kept secret from the American public. Excuse me? WWWIII will be kept secret? There's a good idea! No way that could ever leak! The actual fighting of the war wanders everywhere too. While the cast should be focused like a laser beam on the war, we get long tech-babble filled digressions about colonizing the moon. Finally, the story ended about 20 pages after the climax. After the war is won, we get more tecno-babble pages about exploring the moon and the solar system (while the characters are apparently given free rein to do anything they please with technology so dangerous that the American public must never know about it..) I get the homage to Doc Smith, but Smith plots never wandered, and he generally knew when to end a book.

The best new science fiction novel I've read in years........2007-07-29

By the time I finished reading Warp Speed and its sequel, The Quantum connection, plus Von Neumann's War (with John Ringo), Into The Looking Glass and The Vorpal Blade (with John Ringo), I had experienced the most enjoyable and exciting science fiction binge in many years. I have read a great deal of science fiction over the last fifty some odd years, as well as having written a fair number of science fiction novels myself. I simply do not understand anyone giving Travis S. Taylor's books, either his single author titles or his collaborations, less than four stars at the very least and all except possibly The Vorpal Blade (four stars) should have five stars. Shucks, even my wife, who normally prefers British murder mysteries loved all these books. I would absolutely love to see more science fiction novels as good as these. Warp Speed actually should rate six stars if I was allowed to rate it that high. Darrell Bain.

A Respectable First Try.......2007-07-09

As someone who his still trying to get his own work published I have to admit that Travis "Doc" Taylor has done something I have not. But that does not mean I can't offer a review. I have read many of the books that Taylor cites as influences and he is certainly well read. Warp Speed is in the tradition of E.E. Doc Smith that has been modernized with some Heinlein-esq characters and polished with modern science.But pulp for pulp's sake is no virtue.

First the science. It is believable and seems to be a not to far progression of our own. But better books than this have had less believable or probable science.

Second the Heinlein. I as a reader have a few issues with him especially his later work. It gets very preachy. He takes time away from his narrative to preach a point of personal belief. For Heinlein it was rants against philosophy (since I was a philosophy major I did not enjoy his unfair slander) and Taylor falls into this trap two. He goes into early unjustified rants against doctors. He criticizes them for not engaging in scientific study like a physicist or engineer. Imagine how hampered an engineer testing the strength of steel would be if his subject could feel pain. He also makes broad judgments about the South that simply are not true. I live in Florida. We do not all own guns, we do not all have accents, and our crime is no lower on average than the rest of the country. So throughout the book one mans opinions are treated as the facts of the world. It gets annoying.

The book as a whole is well written dialog flows well and characters meet the level expected of them. This is pulp after all. We are in the tradition of Heinlein not Asimov or Niven. The biggest problem in the book is one many new writers (myself included) fight. Our hero is an inflated version of who we want ourselves to be filling out our delusions of grandeur. You can tell a lot about Taylor from the his main character.

Making the science in science fiction come alive!.......2006-09-28

Someone once said that if you want to be a good writer you should write what you know. "Warp Speed" by Travis S. Taylor shows that not only does he have a good eye for story telling, but also that he knows a lot! The book is written in the first person perspective following Dr. Neil Anson Clemons, Physicist, Engineer and a University Professor. Anson, as his friends call him, is working on developing alternative propulsion systems for the space program. In other words he's trying to find a way to make space travel more practical than strapping people to giant rockets and shooting them into the sky. Specifically he is working on developing a warp drive to allow faster than light travel.

The book takes a lot of interesting turns. In most science fiction that I've read the technologies are more of a back drop that facilitates the plot. "I want my character to fly like Superman so he has the Dyson 3000 anti-gravity belt", or even more simply, "my character has a sword made of energy, never mind how, he just does". In Taylor's book, the technology he uses starts almost with where we are today. It's set a few years in the future, but nothing seems extraordinarily out of place, no ray guns or teleportation. As Anson's work on the warp drive progresses a number of new technologies are brought into play besides the warp drive but the reader is not asked to simply accept them, rather, they become a part of their logical development. In fact it all was introduced so realistically that I'm surprised we haven't already developed many of the things Anson and his team discover.

The focus on the technology in "Warp Speed" doesn't mean the characters are skipped or glossed over. The character of Anson Clemons is brought into very clear focus as a "renaissance man" with a number of talents and interests that blend together to complement each other and help explain his motives and thought processes. The other characters are well rounded, but they are seen through Anson's eyes which colors them more to how he perceives them. One does pick up on an endearing bit of absentmindedness from Anson, as he "forgets" to mention significant developments in his life, only to have them pop up in the story with an "oh yeah, did I mention that...".

Don't let me fool you, "Warp Speed" isn't just a book about the development of a new propulsion technology. This is good science fiction with plenty of action to keep the reader hooked. In fact, at times the action comes so fast you almost can't get your breath as the characters are thrust from one situation to another with no breaks. One minute they are in space, then they are in a forest with tornadoes, then they are facing terrorists, it almost makes a person dizzy, but it still manages to flow well.

I recommend "Warp Speed" by Travis S. Taylor. It is a real page turner that makes some of the science behind science fiction come alive. This is the first in a series with the second book "The Quantum Connection" due out in paperback soon. To quote author John Ringo "Flubells away!" which will make much more sense if you read the book. Check it out!

Shred!: The Ultimate Guide to Warp-Speed Guitar

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Pretty Lame...I recommend plenty of alternatives.
sorta good
Not really a guide
Improve your playing and play FASTER....
Woodshedding with Shred! will definitely improve your skills

Shred!: The Ultimate Guide to Warp-Speed Guitar
Pete Prown , and Rich Maloof
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With knuckle-busting lessons covering surefire techniques, Shred! will light a napalm-hot blaze under your fingers and kick your playing up to ludicrous speed! Shredding is a challenge, but this book breaks it down, demystifying guitar solos that sound intimidating on record. Each chapter examines one killer technique in-depth, including: sweep picking, thrash-chording, blues shredding, tapping, legato playing, and the whammy bar. The CD includes each exercise demonstrated.

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Pretty Lame...I recommend plenty of alternatives........2007-06-15

Upon glancing at the synopsis, this book initially sounds pretty interesting. Beyond the expected sections on alternate and sweep picking, the book offers sections on "blues shredding" and "speed riffing", which both sounded pretty cool and unusual.

However, as other reviewers have stressed, this volume simply does not deliver. It is very long on "guitar hero lore" and general descriptions of how they like to play, but very short on actual examples and licks that will help you become a better player, which I thought was the whole point.

We live in a world of limited time and resouces. If you want material that will cut to the chase and get you started improving your technique immediately, I have plenty of recommendations. Any book/DVD on this list will help you improve you technique significantly:

1. Speed Mechanics For Lead Guitar (Troy Stetina)
2. Terrifying Guitar Technique (Carl Culpepper)
3. Ultimate Guitar Technique: The Complete Guide (Bill LaFleur)
4. The "Speed Kills" Series (Michael Angelo Batio, metalmethod.com)
5. Shred Guitar Manifesto (Rusty Cooley, chopsfromhell.com)

The one from Rusty is pretty intense, so I might suggest starting with one of the others. I like the ones from Troy and Michael best, because they go into some detail about how to perform various techniques. The ones from Carl and Bill are more like "Here's a jillion exercises. Now play!" Which is useful too, because it can show you what general areas to concentrate on, but they don't go into much detail about what to focus on while practicing specific techniques.

I hope you find something of value here, and I wish you luck in becoming blazingly fast.

sorta good.......2007-04-17

This isn't the best it isn't the worst. I am a 14 year old shred wannabe. I bought this because it is a basic overview. They need more examples! They need to show you things like how to rest your hand. Stuff like that. I have improved from this book though. My speed is good. I can tap pretty well. But they need to show more examples. Other that it is good. If you want to learn to shred I would buy it. If you know how. it is a waste of money.

Not really a guide.......2006-09-05

Be careful with this book. It isn't a sherd guide, but a compilation of licks and some yadda yadda about guitar heros. Some licks are nice, but the book has no technical advise, so I wouldn't advise you to try it unless you have some technical guidance, becasue trying some of these licks without it might result in serious injury to you hands. It's not about repeating it over and over and faster every time until you get it, but about eficiency and avoiding excessive stress which will surely happen if you don't have someone knowledgeable around to teach you. CD's recorded tracks sound completely amateur in quality, although performance is fine. I wouldn't recommend you to get this book. You can get many more useful books for the same money.

Improve your playing and play FASTER...........2006-08-16

[From the October 2006 issue of Vintage Guitar Magazine] "Shred! includes practice lessons, techniques, TAB solos, and even a CD to help you hear the lessons. Improve your playing, play FASTER and articulate notes more clearly. This book will also help you understand the fretboard better."

Woodshedding with Shred! will definitely improve your skills.......2006-08-16

[From Sept. 2006 issue of Guitar Player Magazine] "Any shredder worth his or her weight in metronomes will tell you that you must put in serious time if face-melting chops are your ultimate goal. To that end, woodshedding with Shred! The Ultimate Guide To Warp-Speed Guitar will most definitely improve your skills. The sections on alternate picking, sweeping, legato, finger-tapping, and palm-muting will get you going with shred's five basic food groups--but with chapters that focus on speed riffing a là James Hetfield and bands such as the Dillinger Escape Plan, as well as primers on whammy bar chicanery and blues shredding, this book is more than a neo-classical how-to.

"All of the musical examples come in standard notation and tab, and the book's accompanying CD shows the authors to be some pretty wicked players themselves (Pete Prown, in particular, is frightening). Shred! also does an admirable job of educating the reader about shred's origins and some of the genre's most important players."

Working at Warp Speed: The New Rules for Project Success in a Sped-Up World

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Dilbert without Pictures
Much More Than Just a way to Make Money
Focuses on the power of people in project success!
Great Book
An unusually insightful and useful project management book!

Working at Warp Speed: The New Rules for Project Success in a Sped-Up World
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The discrepancy between what we know and what we do can trigger poor planning, miscommunication, overload, and a host of other ills. The constant games of catch-up and fire-fighting can turn even simple projects into nightmares. In Working at Warp Speed, Barry Flicker explains that people can break such patterns only by cultivating the ability to make and keep clear commitments. He recounts a simple story about a handful of people who, through powerful direct experience, learn to stop complaining about the idiots out there and begin examining their own behaviors and assumptions. This shift is the key, according to Flicker, to successful project management in business and in life.

Customer Reviews:

Dilbert without Pictures.......2002-11-01

This book is about achieving project success at warp speed. Barry Flicker describes the various kinds of project team members and suggests the best ways to deal with them.

Flicker uses stories to drive home his points beginning with: Many project teams fail at proper communication due to (perceived) lack of time. He describes the Four Rules of Warp Speed that can provide relief from the many frustrations. The secret is to know when and how to slow down and to include all the right people at the right times.

Flicker is a gifted professional speaker, successful business consultant and a fine writer.

Dan Poynter, ParaPublishing.com.

Much More Than Just a way to Make Money.......2002-06-01

Barry Flicker's book "Working at Warp Speed" is a small book, that speaks volumes. Frequently in todays world, as shown through the media's headlines, we often hear of, and witness for ourselves the gross extent at which individuals, and individuals connected to business will sacrifice the most basic of morals, in order to quote "get ahead". Flicker returns to the fundamentals of what it means to be human, in explaining that, personally accountability, communication of feelings, and making goals situations where numerous parties come out winners, is a main message of the book. This is in contrast to blaming others for any mishaps you come across, holding everything in, becoming frustrated, and lastly, fighting not to be a "loser" destroying anything in your path on the way to quote "win". By following Flicker's book we see that money, and success, is a bi-product of holding ones integrity at the forefront of ones life. In the end by doing this life becomes much more enjoyable.

Focuses on the power of people in project success!.......2002-05-23

Flecker uses an interesting approach to help the reader get into his book and relate to the issues that block project success. His focus is on the people who make the project succeed, and rightly it should be. Quite simply, people make projects succeed!

His 4 rules of warp speed are simple to grasp, and they are vital to project success. All in all a great resource book for any project leader or team member!

Great Book.......2002-03-25

This is the kind of book that anyone working with others on a project should keep nearby. It's practical, funny, and written in a down to earth way that makes you comfortable using it immediately to guide your own work. After reading it, you might want to start getting copies for everyone because it's done in a way that is easy to remember and talk about.

An unusually insightful and useful project management book!.......2002-03-19

In a world that's drowning in books on management in general, and project management in particular, this one really stands out.

The author takes a far more human approach to the discipline, and addresses the real-world issues that REALLY cause teams and projects to fall apart, miss deadlines, etc. Gone are the elaborate theoretical constructs that sound good while reading about them, but which don't stick, and thus make no difference in behavior.

In their place is very accessible, well-writtten guidance on identifying the pivotal issues, and how to address them. This is MUST reading for anyone having trouble managing multiple priorities.

Manifest Warp Speed
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A Really Neat Book

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A Really Neat Book.......2005-07-02

Manifest Warp Speed by Susan James is a really neat book designed to get readers to focus clearly, to manifest change in their lives. The book contains 365 helpful bits, which can be read as a calendar, reading and thinking about one nugget per day. However, I recommend reading through the book first to fully understand what she is saying. Then you can go back and read one nugget per day.

The nuggets include:
I do not listen to any negative output from others and I do not doubt, even for a moment, my abilities to accomplish what I desire. My Vision is firmly planted.

I choose to understand how my soul uses my mind to evolve itself, while using that invisible field to manifest upon. I choose to know this.

What We Say About Ourselves Goes A Long Way In Determining The Outcome of What Our Lives Look Like.

Intent is a Tool, Intent Changes Thought; It's Like A Steering Wheel. Intent Is Linked To Thoughts.

If in one moment we believe we can accomplish anything we desire, and in the next moment we are wallowing in self-pity and doubt, we have dis-connected from that stream to bring us all that we desire.

We have to stay tapped in, with our mental body and mind all that allows us to draw to us the energies of manifestation. If we do not, we will never become co-creator of our desired abundance on the earth plane.

I Accept the Idea that Abundance is Mine. I Bring My Ideas Into Consciousness. I Contemplate them, I Love Them, I Bless Them. I Am Grateful For Them. It is the X-Factor. The Missing Link. Prosperity was prepared for me from the beginning.

That Which I Am. I Am Not Defined By People, Places, Time and Events.

Keep Your Head Out of The Toilet, Your Heart's Not In There! Unlimited Thinking Is More Than Thinking Big, It Is Thinking Creatively.

Intent is a Tool, Intent Changes Thought; It's Like A Steering Wheel. Intent Is Linked To Thoughts.

My Path Is Clear. I Live In My Now, Not Yesterday, Not Tomorrow. NOW.

Engage! Roadmap for Workforce-Driven Change in a Warp-Speed World

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Easy to Understand
A brilliant , practical guide for planned change in organizations!
Great practitioners guidebook
Great for executives interested in leading change and organizational practictioners

Engage! Roadmap for Workforce-Driven Change in a Warp-Speed World
T. Elaine Gagne
Manufacturer: RoseHill Press
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The ENGAGE! process is an award-winning organizational system that involves your entire workforce in creating successful change. The process includes a unique approach to organizational vision, scorecard, and strategy and a comprehensive coaching component. These elements create an engaged and optimized workforce that produces outstanding results.

Customer Reviews:

Easy to Understand.......2006-08-19

I am enjoying this book. It is easy to read and understand. In the past I found business structure books boring and gookie - but not so with this one.

A brilliant , practical guide for planned change in organizations!.......2006-05-09

For those of you that work with planned organizational change, here is a book for you! Dr. Gagne is a good friend of mine and my co-author of the seminal DESIGNING EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATIONS;TRADITIONAL AND TRANSFORMATIONAL VIEWS(Sage Publications, 1995). She has written a brilliant piece that describes a huge cultural/structural change effort she work on while at Franklin-Covey..........check it out!!!

David K. Banner,PhD
Professor of Leadership
Dahl School of Business
Viterbo University
900 Viterbo Drive
La Crosse, WI 54665
608-796-3377
dkbanner@viterbo.edu

Great practitioners guidebook.......2006-03-25

I love this book. I like how Dr. Gagne has made the change process for large organizations simple. While the work with organiations can be complex, Dr. Gagne has managed to describe the process using simple language, great examples, and helpful tools. Other books provide the theory; Dr. Gagne does that took, but also uses a real company example throughout the book to illustrate how to effectively ENGAGE in change.

Great for executives interested in leading change and organizational practictioners.......2006-03-16

Business literature is rich on theory but generally poor on practice. Engage! provides both the sound theoretical basis for organizational change as well as excellent practical steps. Dr. Gagne bridges the gap between methodology and specific practice in a very readable format. Her accompanying website is very useful also. I hope this catches the attention of the universities as it would make an excellent college text.

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