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Summary: Good summary of management techniques and principles
Review: We've been using this book as our text in an Engineering Management class at Santa Clara University. Brown provides a good survey of management techniques such as Theory X and Theory Y and principles such as the Peter Principle, Parkinson's Law, and Deming's 14 obligations of management.Focusing primarily on the challenges of managing technical professionals, the author projects Theory Y into the age of flat flexible organizations. His discussions of informal organizations and concepts such as authentic (bottom-up) authority are interesting, but he seems to avoid anecdotal reasoning. This seems to be deliberate, but sometimes leads to redundant writing with lots of opinions rather than real life examples. If the author revises this book by adding more examples to illustrate his points, I might change my rating to 5 stars.
Rating:
Summary: Good summary of management techniques and principles
Review: We've been using this book as our text in an Engineering Management class at Santa Clara University. Brown provides a good survey of management techniques such as Theory X and Theory Y and principles such as the Peter Principle, Parkinson's Law, and Deming's 14 obligations of management. Focusing primarily on the challenges of managing technical professionals, the author projects Theory Y into the age of flat flexible organizations. His discussions of informal organizations and concepts such as authentic (bottom-up) authority are interesting, but he seems to avoid anecdotal reasoning. This seems to be deliberate, but sometimes leads to redundant writing with lots of opinions rather than real life examples. If the author revises this book by adding more examples to illustrate his points, I might change my rating to 5 stars.
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