Customer Rating: 
Summary: Helpful
Comment: This book arranges some good ideas in a natural manner. The explanations are clear and sufficient. But what makes it different from other articles in "change management" area is the auther's ability to make readers focus on what they could have been wrong, when they have conducted a plan in the past. This is different. Too often, articles talk about how to make changes happen in an organization make deep studies on how people in organization will response and how the reader should do accordingly - without changing the reader/pioneer's stand. This one brings the topic back to what readers may improve in future actions.
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Summary: Fun to Read and Full of Practical Wisdom
Comment: Lightning in a Bottle is the best management book that I have ever read - and that is saying a lot because after an MBA and years as a manager I have read too many management books! David Baum's book is FUN and FAST READING and PRACTICAL. Best of all Dr. Baum dispenses business advice that has the wisdom of experience. I used his advice - the chapter about facilitating change by getting all of the affected employees and managers in the same room. Over 100 people did a workshop together to find creative plans to implement an internal project. The meeting was dynamic and very successful and the general manager was impressed by the new approach. In summary, I highly recommend this book. I read it during a couple of short plane flights (it is only about 200 pages) and these few hours turned out to be the most useful 'training' time that I gave myself in the last few years.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Wonderful, Witty and Wise
Comment: This is a great book. I am an organizational consultant and I love this book. The author is able to communicate complex lessons very effectively. I will give copies to my clients so they can benefit from his advice and wisdom. Great book.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Terrific
Comment: A terrific read. Useful, specific, funny and very, very helpful. I particularly valued the chapters on the change cycle and the benefits people get in not changing.Maybe the best book on the subject I've ever read. Much more accessible than theoretical texts currently available which I find cumbersome and difficult to plow through. This was a joy.
I only wish my friends would buy their own copy.
Customer Rating:
Summary: I LOVED it
Comment: I LOVED this book. Practical, useful, funny, refreshing. I was delighted with the specific suggestions and useful information provided. I could pick it up anywhere, read from anywhere. It's a delight to have a leadership book so accessible.In particular, the chapters on the change cycle and the benefits we get in NOT changing were especially useful and thought-provoking.
My only problem was everyone who picked up my copy wanted to take it with them.
