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Title: Real Power: Business Lessons from the Tao Te Ching by James A. Autry, James R. Autry, Stephen Mitchell ISBN: 1-57322-720-X Publisher: Penguin Putnam Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.11 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This is the best management book I have ever read
Comment: I could see some that might dismiss it as just a collection of catchy phrases, trendy euphemisms, and anecdotal and unscientific blathering. But I felt that this book described the kind of management style I will try to emulate in my life. Instead of 'creating' the environment through sheer force of will and a desire for control and domination, it focuses on letting order create itself organically. I loved the detached but focused approach the book describes. Short little passages made this book something I picked up from time to time and really thought about the different passages. While the Taoism is not something I accept completely, learning to appreciate the gentle, detached, and innate wisdom of things was something I enjoyed thinking about. The many descriptions of how NOT to do things were the so close to experiences I have had in with bad management that I found myself totally engrossed in this book. The solutions given were so logically and eloquently presented that I could not help but take the words in with a deep sense of satisfaction. This book was a source of confirmation for me. For so long I have had so many bad managers, and seen so many bad practices in organizations, that I was wondering if I was just a complainer. But this book was right with my experiences. It described things so purely for me that I felt justified and inspired to continue in my path as I head off to business school and enter the world of management more on the other side of things. In any event, as I wrote above, this book captured the kind of management style I want to cultivate more than any of all the management books and articles I've read and I recommend it highly. I will keep this book on my desk for as long as it holds together.
Rating: 5
Summary: 5 stars or 1 star, depends on who you are and what you want
Comment: I should be the eighth person who wrote a review for this book. The seven reviewers before me had really extreme opinion on it. Five 5 stars and two 1 star. You seldom find that on Amazon. Anyway, I read and found all of them honest and personal/subjective account of the reviewers' perception/experience.
As a Chinese, I assure you that Tao Te Ching would be voted as one of the ten greatest book of our culture. It touches every part of our daily life and so the application of its principles on business/life/love is popular in the eastern world (similar to Sun Tzu's Art of War). Mitchell's translation is the best I read so far (though so little). Autry's intrepretation of it matches those of the mainstream Chinese and Japanese scholars.
So, if you buy in TQM, Theory Y/Z and self actualization kind of stuff, read this book and you will gain something. Otherwise, spend your money and time elsewhere.
Rating: 1
Summary: Not the right book for me
Comment: Jon Slavet, the CEO of Guru.com, gave me this book. Though the book was interested and spiritual, I did not find it particularly appealing. Even though the book is quite short, I could not finish it. This book is good for people who like books that accent the work/life balance (of which I admit that I have none).
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Title: Love and Profit : The Art of Caring Leadership by James A. Autry ISBN: 0380717492 Publisher: Perennial Currents Pub. Date: 01 September, 1992 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Confessions of an Accidental Businessman: Confessions of an Accidental Businessman by James A. Autry ISBN: 1576750035 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Fusion Leadership: Unlocking the Subtle Forces That Change People and Organizations by Richard L. Daft, Robert H. Lengel ISBN: 1576750809 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Pub. Date: 30 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Servant Leader: How to Build a Creative Team, Develop Great Morale, and Improve Bottom-Line Performance by JAMES A. AUTRY ISBN: 0761535357 Publisher: Prima Lifestyles Pub. Date: 02 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Tao Te Ching by Stephen Mitchell ISBN: 0060812451 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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