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Mitt Romney was a business man who founded Bain Capital to grow it int a billion dollar fortune. Then he walks away from it al to go to Salt Lake City and take over the U.S. Olympics Committe to save it from going bankrupt and embarassing our country,. The he runs for Governor of Massachussets and promptly institutes guaranteed healthcare for every citizen. He ounsd liberal AND conservative, which is why he can win. And if he does, there'll be a President in the White House who actually told the Boston Herald and states on the myspace page that his favorite books are Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) and The Business of Winning (Robert Evangelista) How cool is that!

This book was like nothing I've read before. A legitmate business book that taught me things I could use tomorrow. But it didn't bore me to death like too many other management books. It was an easy read, is loaded with insight, has a terrific story, and lots of anecdotes about successful coaches and leaders. A good mix.

The correlation between sports and business has always been intriguing to me. I've just been waiting for someone to develop a valid process and quantify the results so I can apply it. Nice work, Good read. The underlying hockey story is compelling.

As an ex-coach of midget sports teams, I identified with the author's approach to developing a winning team. Over the years, my teams and I visualized ourselves as winners, talked about the necessary skills and attitude that it was going to take to reach our goal, worked to develop those skills and concentrated on how each player's strengths played to the team. In The Business of Winning the author demonstrates how he effectively identified, analyzed and documented the achievements he had on the playing field and brought that strategy successfully into the workplace. It is very impressive that he is unselfishly sharing his successful approach with his peers. He is definitely a team player who wants everyone on his team and his company to win. This is a must read for every coach, every parent, and every teacher, as well as every manager.

Dr. Kock's work is one that illustrates "real world" situations and case studies of the business world, be it in a class room or at hom for one's reading pleasure. It uses the business environment's strategies and breaks them down so that the audience may fully understand them and implement them. His vast experience with information technology and management enhances this book's effeciency in sharing knowledge to an audience, not just meaningless information.

This Book mainly deals with Organizations ,seeking redesigning process ,with facilitating collborative technologies.Book is profound resources with respect to Business process redesign techniques.Being a ardent reader of Dr Kock's works on E-collaboration,I think this book encompasses all that is required for BPR process involving collaboration technologies.Interesting feature of the book involves in exploring a new methdologies of communication in corporate work environments apart for email.The book has strongly emphasized on statistics and contains necessary resources having academic value.I think book caters perfectly to the need of researchers working in the area of E-collaboration and its impacts in dynamic business processes

This book serves for the purpose of Academic as well as Industrial needs dealing with business process improvement.A special feature dealing with the book includes real life cases and thier apt description.Dr Kock should be specially commended for his work .He has taken enough care to make it easily digestible for a novice reader too.Book contains range of statistics as well as case studies which enhance its value beyond. Book covers e-collaboration advancements,and thier implementational issues.Book provides a new dimension to the field of Business Process Redesign. All in all a great book

This book is an excellent tool for those of you who want to not just learn but understand e-collaboration.It gives a clear idea about the various concepts and theories that lead to the emergence of e-collaboration and virtual groups.The author has been very consistent in his writing and provides a great deal of evidence on his observations that make sense in this real world. Overall its a very good book and one needs to read it in order to know it.

An excellent book on how to coach others in the work place. The book explains what coaching is (not just a buzz word) and gives you the 8 Skill Coaching Model - a process for coaching discussions. Chapter 5 talks about versatile coaching and dealing with the differences that exists between people. Win-Win Partnerships: Be on the Leading Edge with Synergistic Coachin is a newer publication by the authors. It provides much of the same information and more.

I've have used this book with my entire management team and recommend other books from Dr. Steven Stowell on communication, coaching, and performance improvement. Most notably the book Win-Win Partnerships: Be on the Leading Edge with Synergistic Coachin covers much of the same content, but in a newer format. This however, is a classic that should be in your library if you're interested in Coaching in the workplace. Most of the Coaching books I've purchase are soft and weak in their content. Many of these don't really offer a process on "how to coach" or even explain what coaching is. Other books seem to be a "make you feel good" style of book, but don't offer hard skills to coach others for performance. I guess this is why the term "coaching" seems to be misused and abused which I find frustrating. This book offers tangible content and more. This is why it is so respected in the corporate environment and is often required reading in many educational institutions. I don't think you'll be disappointed.

I have used this book and a previous book of the authors to assist me in teaching their 3day course in a large company. The book is practical and presents the coaching process as a story the reader gets involved in as he/she is getting involved in the 8 Step Process in the classroom. A number 1 learning tool. It also serves as excellent independent reading as a how-to book which captures the reader's interest.

Short - easy to read and filled with concrete "how-to" information on a collaborative process for facilitating change in someone's performance. The author's 8-step model is based on 20 years research into the "best practices" of successful business performance managers. Very common sense and practical.

I bought this for a project in college and it turned out to be a lot better use. Have given it reads a few times just to remind myself of different aspects of the game. Helps in building a program and controlling your life as coaches sometimes get lost in coaching. Worth a read.

This is the one book I have constantly pushed around my high school to fellow coaches- in any sport- to read. The leadership and guidance is both thorough, entertaining and most of all, right on the money. Any new (or not so new) varsity coach would be very wise to read this and keep this book in their library to refer to it at least annually. However, you will find it difficult to reacquisition the book after loaning it to somebody. Perhaps the Athletic Director could buy one for each coach. It would saved me the ordeal buying now another one .

In Coaching and Control Bill Warren examines many key components that are often overlooked in books for coaches. From relationships between individual players, whole teams, school staff and communities to practice and game preparation, Warren gives coaches of every sport and level an excellent framework from which to develop your own philosophy on coaching. Additionally, this is one of the few coaching books that I have encountered where the writer isn't afraid to address situations in a non-politically correct way. It was nice to finally read someone who has coached and isn't afraid to tell it like it is. I highly recommend this book for the "new" and "old" coach. There is something for everyone here.

This book is the ONLY book that can help all coaches in every sport. Bill Warren has been through it all and presents tons of valuable information to help any coach navigate the "shark infested waters" of coaching. I wish I had this book 20 years ago. Coach Warren, thanks for all the help you have given me. This book is your best! Thanks!

As a hardcore Vikings fan I was thrilled to find this book. I truly believe this rivaly is the greatest in the NFL past, present and future. Nothing can discribe the feeling I get when I go to the local pup to watch the Vikes battle the Pack. With this book I can relive past victories and heartbreaks. This book is an excellent book to compair numbers and scores. A must have for Viking or Packer fans but can definitely appeal to NFL histroy buffs. What a find!

Mishler has gone the extra yard to interview great players from both sides of this rivalry. From "crossover players" who found themselves in the enemy camp for their professional careers to the great anecdotes which fill each page any Packer or Viking fan will be entertained. I thought I had heard or read most of the Lombardi year stories, but Todd came up with some new ones I hadn't heard from the post season circuit. A perfect complement to D'Amato and Christl's "Mudbaths and Bloodbaths".

You don't have to be a Vikings or Packers fan to enjoy this book. Any true NFL fan will want to read this book to relive some of the greatest games ever played between these NFC powerhouses. Insight from players and fans alike give a personal feel and provide that extra "edge" that will leave you both chuckling and gritting your teeth depending on which side of the Minnesota-Wisconsin border you happen to live on. Don't hesitate, but a copy for yourself and get some extra's for Xmas gifts!

Cold Wars: 40 Years Of Packer-Viking Rivalry by football enthusiast Todd Mishler is an informed and informative review of every game these the cherished Greenbay Packer and Minnesota Viking football teams have played since 1960. Filled cover to cover along with anecdotes, insights, and cheers from players, coaches, sports writers, and fans, Cold Wars is enthusiastically recommended as an engaging history perfect for Wisconsin and Minnesota football buffs and could well serve as a template for writing books about other historic football rivalries!

Great Photo essay especiaaly great for an out of market Sox Fan.

If you love the 2005 World Series Champion White Sox Baseball team, why not learn more about where it all began...incredible photos of an amazing ballpark, good editorials.

I myself am 30 years old and can remember about 15 of those at old Comiskey. The images and information provided in this book are fantastic. It provides an old Sox fan a chance to reminisce as well as a new fan to learn. GREAT BOOK!

The old Comiskey Park was the first place I saw a baseball game. It is still my ideal place to see a baseball game. Because I collect any reading material I find on the old ballpark, I seized the opprtunity to buy this book when I saw it in a bookstore. The photography of this book, while far to brief, is spectacular. The one misfortune is that all the pictures are in black and white. One of the interesting things is to watch the evolution of the Dan Ryan Expressway next to Comiskey Park as the ballpark ages.

True White Sox fans will note the error printed in this book involving a White Sox homerun hitter. Irregardless, Sox fans will enjoy this gem.

The author breaks new ground in his exploration of creativity as a transformative agent. In this book creativity becomes a transformative agent in the workplace, the office, and the studio and the author skillfully demonstrates how this transformative agent is the result of "creating with others." In contrast to the notion that imagination and creativity occur in isolation, McNiff brings to light the concept that through creating together, we naturally gain energies and inspiration from those with whom we collaborate and commune.

This book's appeal comes from the numerous examples that the author provides and weaves throughout the text. While those with an artistic bent may want to keep this book in their studios, those who work in business, the laboratory, or an educational institution will want to keep it on their desk, benches, or in their briefcases. The ideas in this book recharged my imagination and reinspired the creative source within, particularly in running my own business as well as daily life.

Shaun McNiff has given his readers another pearl in what is becoming a long strand of outstanding contributions to the world. This new book is an intriguing and thoughful and application of his ideas that have evolved in over 30 years of work with groups struggling to ignite their creativity. This book explores new territory as he applies his experience and unique perspectives to creative life in the workplace. His passion for unleashing the power of creative thinking and authentic being in the workplace, and in all of life, is potentially a significant contribution to organizations in need of revitalization and individuals in search of meaning in their lives. In many ways I find McNiff's creative practices, as presented in this book, to be alligned with David Whyte's poetic call for rediscovery of soul in the work place in The Heart Aroused.
Creating With Others may challenge some managers and organizational leaders who seek more traditional and shallow leadership initiatives. A key concept that McNiff proposes is that "to imagine is to let go." He intertwines the phenomena of focus and release of control as a method of tapping into one's innate creativity.
This book is unique in its approach to communal life, and yet is solidly anchored in literary sources from psychology to art. He evidences a deep understanding of human collaboration and creative exercise and applies these in practical exercises for being in creative community with others. I hope many individuals, communities and organizations will be enriched by exploring McNiff's approach to creation in the workplace.

McNiff has written a thoughful and practical work that not only shows direction for implementing creative thinking and being in life and the workplace, but also goes to the source of why art is so powerful a tool for change and healing. When learning occurs at its' quintessential best; when healing occurs at its' deepest level, one thing is certain - there is a connection being made between self, other and environment/community. McNiff has understood this connection and written in depth on this matter in many of his other writings. In this new volume, he takes this rich and novel understanding about connection and applies it into practical approaches for being in 'connection with others'! When one adds 'active imagination' to our daily encounters, it is here that the author boldly steps into an arena which brings a knowledge base of past and present experiences into focus and charts out new vision for 'life, art and the workplace.' This book dares to go where not many artists and scholors have dared to go before!

I found this book a delightful read. It's filled with practical ideas and reflections about creativity, collaboration, and leadership. It's also an eminently browsable book - one can focus on a given chapter and come away with insights that speak directly to a current project. I think one of the book's strengths is McNiff's way of allowing many of the people in it, including himself, to speak directly to the reader. Another distinctive aspect is McNiff's creative sensibility - he sees creativity as the substance of everyday living rather than an "add-on" or enhancement to our lives. Hence the importance of collaboration, which enables us to generate creative energy in a number of personal contexts. Eventually, these contexts feed one another and produce a gestalt effect in which the individual becomes a powerful creative engine in his or her own right rather than simply a creative practitioner in a specific field. This is an eminently practical book for business people, artists, therapists, and just about anyone who recognizes the universal benefits of committing themselves to creative work and who might be looking for practical advice on working creatively with others.

Read this when it came out and re-read it recently, excellent book, hopefully the put it back into circulation. No other book goes in depth as this one does for those famous Cubs of 69.

Talley recently passed away but he was a writer for the paper and was by this team everyday of the season. Great Book but very hard to find these days!

Read this when it came out and re-read it recently, excellent book, hopefully the put it back into circulation. No other book goes in depth as this one does for those famous Cubs of 69.

Talley recently passed away but he was a writer for the paper and was by this team everyday of the season. Great Book but very hard to find these days!

I read this book a while ago. I didn't realize it was out of print. It's a shame really.

This book focuses on the 1969 baseball season of the Chicago Cubs. What's common knowledge to many baseball fans is that in 1969 the NY Mets came from last place in the NL East division to win the World Series. What's less well known (to non-Cubs fans) is that the Cubs led the NL East division from the start of the season until mid-September when the Mets beat them out. A lot of books have been written about the Miracle Mets of '69 but this book is about the team that lost out - the Cubs. It's also a look back at yet another painful chapter in Cubs' history.

The book goes chapter by chapter covering the members of the team individually. Examples of chapters are: Leo Durocher, Ken Holzmann, Ernie Banks, Don Young, Kenn Hundley, Ron Santo and others.

The book covers the entire careers of the team members including where they came from before playing for the Cubs in the 1969 season and what happened to them after the season ended so disastrously.

Most Cubs fans will probably enjoy this book as the author was able to interview quite a few members of the team and gather their reflections on that season. Non-Cubs fans will enjoy this book because it will remind them that no matter how bad their team is, it probably isn't as bad as the Cubs.

Although I am a die-hard White Sox fan (not to mention, a one-time Cub fan growing up), I was aware of the Bruins' misfortunes. But amazingly, I didn't know anything about the Cubs infamous 1969 season until high school when I made a visit to the library in Phoenix, AZ and in the sports section I discovered "The Cubs of '69" by Chicago writer Rick Talley (sadly, he's already dead). I couldn't believe that they were in first place on Opening Day and then they buckled to the up-and-coming Mets. Does baseball fans realize that hadn't they held on to their lead in the NL East the '69 Cubs would had been the first team to spend first place in the entire regular season since the 1927 Yankess? (That's right; argued to be one of the greatest teams in baseball history) I liked the part when Talley writes,"They had a pennant won and they blew it" and it then I said to myself,'Even worse: They also blew a World Series' since the Mets ran the table and beat the Orioles. But let's get to the players, shall we? This team was lined up with players like Ernie Banks (why was "Mr. Cub" batting fifth for most of the year?), Billy Williams, Ron Santo, Glenn Beckert, Don Kessinger, Randy Huntley, Jim Hickman, and the pitching staff of Ferguson Jenkins, Bill Hands, Dick Selma, and Ken Holtzman. My Dad told me several years ago that he went to two games that year and as if the sun, moon, and stars were allined, they were the two games that defined the year: Opening Day at Wrigley against the Philles when pitch-hitter Willie Smith hit a game-winning homer over the right-field wall with the Cubs trailing by one in extra innings and the other was Holtzman pitching a no-hitter (with no strikeouts!) against the Braves in August (Hank Aaron was the last batter). Talley aruges two reasons why they collapsed in the last month: One was that they played in the July and August heat at home every day; another reason why no lights at Wrigley really hurted them and the other reason was the most important: They had a hothead manager with Leo Durocher; who may have been sports' original bad boy long before Bobby Knight and John MacEnroe showed up. He makes the point that Durocher refused to sit his players down the stretch and it got to the point that he created a monster of himself when it was revealed that he may of betted against his own team (long before Pete Rose was accused of it) during the critical September series with the Mets. As you may know, the Cubs blew a 3-1 lead to the up-and-coming Marlins (does this sound familar?) in the NLCS last month. When that happened, I cryed because I felt so bad for Banks, Williams, Santo, Huntley, and all the other Cubs because I wanted the burden to be off their shoulders and it didn't. Dad then told me simply, "Don't worry Eric. I've been waiting for the Cubs to get into the World Series ever since that 1969 season." For all those baseball fans who think the sport is fragile like life, must pick up "The Cubs of '69." They'll realize that everything must come into place and as what Ernie Banks once said, "Don't fear. This is the year."

Who would have thought that aviation and medicine were so much alike. This book reviews the safety culture in both professions (albeit from an aviation point of view) anb shows that both can learn from eachother.

I have used this book in aviation safety training and it does provide a solid basis for creating a safety culture.

Recommended!

Too many books on this subject are either just too academic or too trivial to be worth the price. This book avoids these pitfalls and provides helpful analysis to the 'real world'.

Robert Helmreich is regarded in the aviation industry as the father of Crew Resource Management (CRM), and in this book he and Ashleigh Merritt (with material contributed by many others) discuss the effects of cultural issues on safety in aviation and in the operating room.

While the bulk of the book is devoted to CRM in aviation (the researchers have vastly more data and experience in that field), the book serves well as an introduction to cultural influences in the operating room (and in medicine in general, to a degree.) This book is not light reading, and is most suitable for professionals in aviation, medicine, or behavioral and social sciences familiar with inter- and intra-cultural dynamics and the statistical methodologies typical in such studies.

The book is excellent at breaking down cultural influences by national, organizational, and professional affiliation, and it adds a significant amount to the body of knowledge in this area. As a long time airline pilot (and part-time safety and training consultant), I found the book fascinating and generally in agreement with my experiences working with pilots from airlines around the world. There are a couple of minor areas where I disagree with the book, for instance on page 105, the authors state "we believe that every national culture values the safety of its members and that every airline is dedicated to improving the safety of its operations." I agree that this is the case in the vast majority of cases, but I have been given reason to doubt the complete accuracy of the second half of that statement based on my personal interactions with many pilots from airlines around the globe. I think that management at all airlines would prefer safe operations as a matter of profitability, but that some are content with doing the minimum mandated training with safety as a second thought to legality and profitability. This is a minor semantic point separating my opinions from those of the authors, and is based on my personal observations and interactions with several thousand crew members from scores of airlines from all over the world. I will unequivocally say that the cultural profiles that the authors have established for the pilots are nearly identical to my own perceptions.

A very interesting part of the book concerns itself with pilots distrusting management. The authors were stunned to discover what low regard pilots felt for management. (As a pilot I think, in general, justifiably so.) This ties in with my comments above about genuine managerial interest in safety. They all "talk the talk," but many don't "walk the walk." The matter is fully distilled for the non-industry insider on pages 127-128 which emphasizes the group mentality (with resultant long-term corporate health) of Southwest Airlines in a press release written by their founder Herb Kelleher, contrasted with a press release from one of the embattled legacy carriers, released by the CEO of that corporation. The latter gave no credit to the employees, while the Southwest release did. The esteem with which management regards employees couldn't be carved in greater relief: the problem for management is that this is a treacherous two way street, and the employees that are desperately needed by legacy carriers are now largely demoralized in some cases to the point of apathy. Fortunately, the Helmreich team was not able to tie safety records conclusively to morale, though that may be simply because accidents are so statistically rare. On page 179 the authors deal again with the trustworthiness of management. The assertion is that for a safety system to function employees must feel free to report safety problems, instead of hushing them up (this is a major issue on the medical side of the house with the ever-present malpractice litigation waiting to ensnare doctors.) The authors are right on the money: if a hint of vindictiveness or lack of anonymity exists in a safety program, it will fail. The authors cite the excellent program at Continental Airlines as a model for how to deal effectively with an accident (in this case a non-fatal gear up landing of a DC-9) to learn from it and make further safety gains with employees.

On page 204 the authors examine cultural issues in the context of language differences. They cite the problems of Chinese pilots speaking in English. They mention the issues of sending a (non-pilot) translator with the pilots to aid communication. I have worked with several Chinese airlines and they are all bright, polite, and perceptive in my experience, but the dynamics in the simulator with the translator are unnerving as instructions are translated and queried, checklists are run and maneuvers are flown. In general under abnormal conditions I found that when a translator is used, emergency procedures took much longer (perhaps twice as long) to accomplish due to the language problems involved. I fully support the Helmreich proposition that international pilots be given more training in English (the international language of air transport.)

In sum, this book is superior and fascinating. I have commented more on the aviation side of the book because that is where the majority of my expertise is, but the medical side is equally fascinating, and heralds the beginning of a true safety system approach to medicine. I highly recommend this book.

This is an outstanding book that goes deeply inside the airline pilots and medical culture (it is much more related about aviation). Full of data and cases that supports and illustrates the author theory. It is a book not only to people that desing training but also manages those professional groups.

William Hartel's affectionate tribute to the "Friendly Confines" of Wrigley Field is a must for any baseball fan, and especially if you've ever been fortunate to watch a game there. Though there are numerous historical photos outlining the history of the old park built in 1914, the bulk of the pictures were taken from dawn to dusk on the same day - June 18, 1993. Loaded with quotes and stories from everyone from Bill Veeck to Ernie Banks and long-time National League Umpire Doug Harvey, this book makes its case that Wrigley is not only the best place on earth to play and watch baseball, but one of the most memorable places to visit for fans of all ages. I read this book on a cold January evening yet when I closed my eyes, I could feel the sun on my face, smell the hot dogs, and hear Ernie Banks saying, "Let's play two!"

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Holy Cow!

Maybe THIS year!

As I write this review, da Cabs have just won their first post-season series since 1908. There is euphoria in Wrigleyville! What a gorgeous anthology book to celebrate - in essays of words and pictures - da Cubs and dere Friendly Confines! Dere's a foreword by George F. Will and mouth-watering pictures of peanuts, popcorn, and hotdogs. (Hey! Where's some Cracker Jacks? ;-) The frontispiece and back (is that called a backispeice?) are appropriately covered in ivy.

Here's the Dust Jacket Lead Off by Ernie Banks: Ballplayers come and go, but Wrigley Field endures. As long as Cub fans take their kids out to the Friendly Confines and show them where baseball should be played, the chain will be unbroken.

Believe!

Reviewed by TundraVision, Once a Cub fan, always a Cub Fan

A GREAT GIFT FOR ANY BASEBALL FAN. A GREAT TOUR OF ONE OF THE BEST STADIUMS EVER. I LOVE THIS BOOK. EXCELLENT READING. WRIGLEY BROUGHT TO LIFE IN A BOOK. GREAT BUY.

i am a sox's fan but this book makes me love the chicago cubs magnificent building. It brings you behind the sceens and shows little secrets about the park. Great book.