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Title: Learning from the Links: Mastering Management Using Lessons from Golf by David K. Hurst ISBN: 0-684-86501-7 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 15 June, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Comment: What do golf and management have in common? David Hurst in his latest book identifies the similarities between these 2 complex dynamic systems. Those who have read Hurst first book, Crisis & Renewal, will detect a common theme. That book described the parallels between the life cycles of natural ecosystems and those of organizations. Both books make systems thinking accessible to managers by employing analogues: ecology in the first book and golf in this latest effort. Since more managers are golfers than amateur ecologists Learning from the Links will no doubt have a broader appeal.
Hurst mission is to make complex systems theory (a close relative of chaos theory) accessible to managers; accessible in ways that affect their thinking and their actions. This is no small task. One can easily fall into the trap of being overly theoretical and academic, or going to the other extreme and dumbing-down the theory so much that its insights and relevance are lost. Hurst does neither. He uses the golf analogy to very effectively draw out actionable insights from complex systems theory for managers. Stories relating the experiences of golfers and managers are used to illustrate the points, but the book is not a series of anecdotes. The stories are artfully crafted to convey the messages in the underlying theory while at the same time making the book an enjoyable read.
Should managers who are not golfers read this book? Being an unaccomplished golfer I think not. The golf analogy is a core element and allows the reader to related, at a visceral level, to the messages in the book. The possible exception would be prospective readers who are not golfers but have an abiding interest in systems theory. Those looking for simplistic solutions to complex problems will not find them in this book. It is for the serious reader who wants a richer appreciation of the systemic relationships that result in exceptional performance, both on the golf course and in business.
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Title: Everything I Learned About People, I Learned from a Round of Golf by John Andrisani ISBN: 0028643429 Publisher: Alpha Books Pub. Date: 07 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Crisis & Renewal: Meeting the Challenge of Organizational Change by David K. Hurst ISBN: 1578518709 Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Pub. Date: 28 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, Annie McKee, Richard E. Boyatzis ISBN: 157851486X Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal by James E. Loehr, Tony Schwartz, Jim Loehr ISBN: 0743226747 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom ISBN: 0786868716 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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