Kimura: Paintings and Works on Paper, 1968-1984: The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., January 19-March 10, 1985
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    Kimura: Paintings and Works on Paper, 1968-1984: The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., January 19-March 10, 1985
    Chuta Kimura
    Manufacturer: The Phillips Collection
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    George Washington First In Peace. First in Peace. March 1793-December 1799. volume VII
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      George Washington First In Peace. First in Peace. March 1793-December 1799. volume VII
      Douglas Southall. Finished by Carroll, John alexander and Ashworth, Mary Wells Freeman
      Manufacturer: Charles Scribner's Sons
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      One Million Strong: A Photographic Tribute of the Million Man March & Affirmations for the African-American Male
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      One Million Strong: A Photographic Tribute of the Million Man March & Affirmations for the African-American Male
      Roderick Terry , and Cliff Giles
      Manufacturer: Duncan & Duncan
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      ASIN: 1878647296

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      In the spirit of the march, each photograph is accompanied by inspiring words of Affirmations that pull the book together in the spirit of progress, togetherness, strength, and love. These beautifully written Affirmations together with Rod Terrys penetrating photographs of brotherhood are nothing less than awesome!

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      3 out of 5 stars Cute photographic journey on a special day.......2002-01-14

      A lot of critics said the Million Man March wouldn't amount to a hill of beans. Yet, since October 16, 1995, every person with any issue on the planet has duplicated the event. This book is a photographic documentation of that special day. It is filled with realistic pictures of everyday African-American men and the celebrities that spoke to them at the podium. I am glad that this book, along with Spike Lee's "Get on the Bus", exist. I would also encourage every library in black neighborhoods to make sure they have a copy of this work. There are many books documenting the marches of the 1960s; I am pleased to see photojournalists are capturing the plentiful activism which happened in the 1990s.
      The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech that Inspired a Nation
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      The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech that Inspired a Nation
      Drew Hansen
      Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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      ASIN: 0060084774
      Release Date: 2005-02-01

      Book Description

      On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., electrified the nation when he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. In The Dream, Drew D. Hansen explores the fascinating and little-known history of King's legendary address. The Dream insightfully considers how King's speech "has slowly remade the American imagination," and led us closer to King's visionary goal of a redeemed America.

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      5 out of 5 stars An Insider View of Greatness.......2006-05-01

      Few speeches in American history are as well known or had the impact of the "Dream Speech". Hansen's wonderful book gives us a unique and insider's view of how the speech was developed, its roots in scripture and in King's lifetime of words up to that point. The analysis of the composition gives the reader a new appreciation of the speech's powerful messages, but also of the sheer beauty of the rhythm and cadence of the words. You can almost hear King's voice come off the pages.

      5 out of 5 stars The Power of God in Man.......2004-01-24

      Martin Luther King was not an unusual black man; in fact, he wanted much of what many black men before him, probably all black men and women wanted. But Martin Luther King was a very unusual man, who happened to be black. His degree of passion, his conviction, his hope, and his perseverance were unlike most before him, and most after him, with the inspired, God given desire to make the world a better place for everyone, including blacks. His vision was not just the result of respect and reliance by his people, it was divinely inspired so that his passion, his hope emerged and blossomed before millions, many of whom were not familiar with him, his history, or his prominence and reputation. He was possessed of those rare qualities, and that rare talent, of the ability to inspire others to believe in themselves, and the world, that they had the dignity to alter their own dynamics, the manner in which they lived, and in the manner in which they were treated by others. As an evangelist, he was superb. For that, like Jesus, and many other prophets who have been threatening to the status quo, his ability to show others the way to self respect and to peace were certainly the force of why his life was taken so early, and so brutally. He was more than a leader; he was a messiah for the many black people who had waited so long for one to lead them out of the psychological bondage which was still very real to them. He positioned himself to show the way, and how to do it in the least offensive manner possible, by non-violence. He was a pillar of strength that even whites unfamiliar with him understood the necessity of yielding to God's will, instinctively knowing that all men were equal, and that all needed the recognition of being equal. Indeed, whites were aware of their obligation under the Constitution to recognize that equality but felt no compulsion to expect it of themselves until Martin forced them to face the truth they had so long avoided. Not only did he demand of blacks the energy and commitment to themselves, he demanded the energy and commitment of whites to respect themselves by being brave enough to help resolve the problem that had long festered in American social reality. The timing was right; the message was right, and Martin was right. He allowed none out of God's boat and helped everyone see that upon that ship, we were all afloat upon the ocean of humanity, and would indeed survive or perish. That message remains very much a part of his legacy, and today's reality although we face other issues as well, and the issues are now broader than ever. No one on earth has the option to say no to God and expect that it will be of no consequence to the world. He was the most remarkable of men that America has ever produced guided by his own devine light within as a beacon of humanity for all to follow.

      4 out of 5 stars More than a cuddly icon.......2003-08-12

      Let me get first vent about the frustrating parts of this book before I get to the good stuff. First, at 229 pages of text, this was a rather short book, made shorter by Hansen's annoying habit of repeating important stretches of speeches. Second, the chapter analyzing the various drafts of the speech is probably better suited to a scholarly dissection of the speech than to a popular book. As was the chapter describing King's preaching style. And I got tired of ascribing every change in the speech to MLK's "genius". The man was exhausted, under threat and working on the run. Surely some of his decisions could have gone differently?

      But minor grumpiness aside, I found this book hard to put down. The description of the organization for the August 1963 March on Washington was fascinating in its details about the people who attended it. One got the impression that the day was pretty disorganized, with the crowd making decisions on its own about when to start marching. Hansen also did a nice job of showing the internal disharmonies among groups within "the movement," as well as hinting that MLK's leadership done to him rather than pursued by him -- less because of his ability to manage and lead than because of his philosophical sophistication, personal courage, stamina and eloquence. That King comes across as a preacher and a prophet (as opposed to a great organizer) does him no disservice, but actually helps to humanize him and make the Civil Rights movement more real. Hansen did a nice job handling the post-1963 life of the speech. He is honest about the impatience that some blacks felt about the 'dreaminess' of the speech, especially as the movement's gains stalled and the violence continued. Hansen nicely captures the slightly radioactive nature of the speech among national politicians (many of whom were wary of King's alleged Communist sympathies) in the years before King's death and the cloyingly hagiographic tributes about King and the speech after 1968.

      Hansen shows how King's memory has been sanitized and rendered harmless by linking him exclusively with the "I Have a Dream" speech. In opposing the Jim Crow laws, a main (but not the only) point of the speech, King targeted a system that was abhorrent to Northern whites and a source of shame to many in the South. Getting rid of it was the relatively easy matter of making the abuses public. But King's next targets proved more difficult -- the hard work of eliminating more subtle forms of racism from American hearts on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. King's premature death allowed Americans to accept him as a national martyr and prophet, but ironically delayed the more difficult soul-searching about America's war plans in Vietnam, its endemic racism and the blind economic violence perpetrated against the poor and powerless.

      5 out of 5 stars "I have a dream" - more than just a speech.......2003-08-07

      I read "The Dream" in one sitting this weekend. The book vividly recaptures the spirit of the time during which Rev. King developed and delivered this inspiring and world-changing speech. At first I was afraid that the author's decomposition of the speech would diminish the power and effectiveness of the speech. On the contrary, his deep exploration into the speech itself and the events leading up to that day, together with fresh perspectives on the moment itself and the years following its delivery enhanced my admiration for both the speech and Rev. King. The author's inescapable conclusion is that there was much, much more at work than a man delivering a televised speech to a supportive crowd. This singular moment in Rev. King's life was the catalyst for much of the advancement that we all benefit from today. Yet this same event is also being used by some to impede further progress in the complete fulfillment of The Dream. This is a book I can wholeheartedly recommend for anyone who wants to learn about the history of that day and its subsequent impact over the next 40 years. It will also be of particular relevance to those with an interest in public speaking.

      5 out of 5 stars King of the Dream.......2003-07-17

      I've listened to King's famous speech dozens of times and read a number of books on King, but it wasn't until reading Hansen's captivating description and analysis of the speech that I realized how little I knew about this seminal event in American history. This book is unusual in that it is both hugely readable and phenomenally informative and insightful.
      Million Man March
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      Michael Cottman
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      Release Date: 1995-12-19

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      5 out of 5 stars Pictures from The absolute BEST day of my LIFE...!.......2007-10-07

      The MMM was a turning point in my life. I feel it was responsible for my decision to marry my Queen, pursue self-employment and become much more active in my community. And this beautifully photographed book helps me remember that Great Day!
      Architectural Heritage of St. Louis, 1803-1891: From the Louisiana Purchase to the Wainwright Building : Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, Missouri, January 20-March 14, 1982
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        Lawrence Lowic
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        The Pedestrian: being a correct journal of "incidents" on a walk from the state house, Boston, Mass., to the U.S. Capitol, at Washington, D.C., performed ... between February 22d and March 4th, 1861
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          Edward P. (Edward Payson) Weston
          Manufacturer: Cornell University Library
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          This volume is produced from digital images from the Cornell University Library Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection
          The 1963 March on Washington: Speeches and Songs for Civil Rights (Miller, Jake, Library of the Civil Rights Movement.)
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            Jake Miller
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            Jamestown's American Portraits: This Generation of Americans
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              Fredrick L. McKissack
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              Jamestown's American Portraits, an American saga of families and friends, traces the fascinating history of America through many generations and cultures and through the eyes of adolescent girls and boys. Jamestown's American Portraits is a unique, enriching reading program designed to teach reading skills and strategies while exploring exciting historical novels.
              Martin Luther King, Jr. and the March on Washington (All Aboard Reading)
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              Martin Luther King, Jr. and the March on Washington (All Aboard Reading)
              Stephen Marchesi
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              ASIN: 0448424215
              Release Date: 2000-12-04

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              On August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 people came to the nation's capital to speak out against segregation and to demand equal rights for everyone and to hear Martin Luther King, Jr. This book captures the spirit of this landmark day and brings Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech to vivid life.

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              5 out of 5 stars GREAT BOOK.......2007-06-09

              I am a second grade teacher. I use this book every year. I use it around his birthday, during Black History Month, and during our Language Arts unit on Courage. I love the part, and photograph, about the man that rollerskated from Chicago to see Dr. King. I think it protrays how important Dr. King was to people around the nation. This year I did somthing special. I work in Juvenile Hall with 15-16 year old males. Before I showed them the video of the speech, I had reveiwed some books about him, but I read this one aloud to them. It is a simple book that has a powerful message. The combination of drawings and photographs bring together this message.

              5 out of 5 stars Excellent Look and Feel to the book.......2006-01-25

              I recently stumbled onto this book at a public library and I have to say I'm very impressed. Martin Luther King and the March on Washington is an excellent work that moves at a good pace for readers of any age. Going to the March on Washington to see King speak must have been a life-changing event that would positively impact anyone who attended. However, for those of us who were not there, or are too young to have been able to go, we are fortunate enough to feel like we are able to experience the magnitude of the event through the books pacing and sense of history. The author places us right in the moment and you can't help but feel like you are on the steps of the mall in Washington, surrounded by scores of people watching a critical moment in American history.

              What Designers Know
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                Bryan Lawson
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                ASIN: 0750664487

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                Each chapter deals with a different technique from which we can best represent and make explicit the forms of knowledge used by designers. The book explores whether design knowledge is special, and attempts to get to the root of where design knowledge comes from. Crucially, it focuses on how designers use drawings in communicating their ideas and how they converse with them as their designs develop. It also shows how experienced designers use knowledge differently to novices suggesting that design expertise can be developed. Overall, this book builds a layout of the kinds of skill, knowledge and understanding that make up what we call designing.

                1. Provides an exploration of research techniques giving an insight into the source of design knowledge
                2. Illustrates how designers interact with their drawings and with computers in developing their knowledge
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                Why designers do what they do, how they arrive at their decisions, and what knowledge they use to make these decisions can be difficult concepts for students and others new to the subject to fully understand. In addition, design theory is a subject open to wide interpretation but the understanding and study of which is essential to becoming a successful designer. What Designers Know presents a sophisticated set of ideas about the nature of design knowledge. It explores whether design knowledge is special, and attempts to get to the root of where design knowledge comes from. Crucially, it focuses on how designers use drawings in communicating their ideas and how they 'converse' with them as their designs develop. It also shows how experienced designers use knowledge differently to novices suggesting that design 'expertise' can be developed.
                Compliance with CDM Regulations: What All Designers Should Know (Hawksmere Report)
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                  Stuart Macdougald-Denton
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                  A thorough understanding of the CDM Regulations is essential for anyone involved in the construction process, whether they are client, consultant, contractor or supplier. This Report represents a definitive statement of best practice methods to ensure that designers comply with the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994. It is essential reading for anyone who prepares a design or who arranges for someone under his or her control to prepare a design relating to a structure or part of a structure.
                  Cost effective casting design: what every foundryman and designer should know.(Cover Story): An article from: Modern Casting
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                    Cost effective casting design: what every foundryman and designer should know.(Cover Story): An article from: Modern Casting
                    Michael A. Gwyn
                    Manufacturer: American Foundrymen's Society, Inc.
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                    Release Date: 2005-07-28

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                    This digital document is an article from Modern Casting, published by American Foundrymen's Society, Inc. on May 1, 1998. The length of the article is 3495 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                    Title: Cost effective casting design: what every foundryman and designer should know.(Cover Story)
                    Author: Michael A. Gwyn
                    Publication: Modern Casting (Magazine/Journal)
                    Date: May 1, 1998
                    Publisher: American Foundrymen's Society, Inc.
                    Volume: v88 Issue: n5 Page: p32(5)

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                    Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers (Unabridged)
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                    Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers (Unabridged)
                    Thomas H. Davenport
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                    5 out of 5 stars Excellent Buy - A must have .......2007-09-17

                    I have read a number of Tom's books, but this one beats them all (I am saving up to buy another one!). The knowledge worker is an essential ingredient for innovation. Fascinating title, well prepared and perfectly laid out thoughts and a simple style writing makes this book a choice material for anyone seeking personal development or involved in self-directed learning. This book is a true blessing and I am glad I bought it. It is a steady reference for my knowledge management project and hopefully, practice.
                    The average knowledge worker believes in his skills and he can not be taken for granted. Davenport describes the knowledge worker's attributes fully and provides employers and senior management a new direction on how to view their organizational assets. It also helps the knowledge worker to realize his potentialities. After reading this book, my motivaion to improve myself has been further enhanced. Indeed, KM is an essential strategy for supporting performance

                    1 out of 5 stars You have got to be kidding?.......2007-07-20

                    I endeavor to follow the addage that if you have nothing nice to say then say nothing; however, this work is redundant, virtually devoid of any actionable insights, and smacks of a self indulgent attempt to justify his own ideosycratic work habits. I kept going in hopes that one concept would justify my investment of mind. The only return on my investment is a book I can now confindently refer to those I distain and assiduously warn those I adore to avoid.

                    I am fairly sure the majority of previous reviews are from nodes in his social network who have seized upon his scintilating suggestion that effective knowledge workers maintain and nuture their relationships by treating them well. It is sycophantic myopia when work which could and should be great barely achieves mediocracy receives any praise whatsoever.

                    If Mr. Davenport reads these words please know that I harbor no ill will to you personally I just found this particular publication of your work seriously wanting.

                    5 out of 5 stars Insightful and pragmatic.......2007-05-26

                    Though he starts with a fuzzy definition of knowledge workers, Thomas Davenport quickly gets to the point where his ideas are both illuminating and practical. His logical structure covering multiple approaches to improving the performance of knowledge workers both changes some foundations upon which to approach the task and also provides many practical ideas to implement.

                    Having focussed for many years on process improvement in software projects, I found his insights on the difference betwen professional practice and process improvement very helpful. The discussion on information technology covered a range of tools, and included some inspiring examples. There is certainly another book or few just on this topic. Completing the books with the topic of managing knowledge workers at first appeared out of order, but upon a second reading the flow of his ideas started to make sense.

                    Overall, Thinking for a Living has been inspiring and useful. I would recommend it to anyone who manages knowledge workers, or aims to improve their performance. And as Mr. Davenport argues, that is an important aim for just about all companies in the rich countries.

                    5 out of 5 stars Must-read if you have any Knowledge Workers in your company.......2006-11-09

                    Knowledge Workers are those people whose main professional output is Knowledge. Because all work requires some knowledge, the boundary can be arbitrary. So, depending on where you draw the line, Knowledge Workers represent ¼ to 1/3 of the labor force in the developed world. Doctors, lawyers, researchers, consultants, and computer programmers all share this trait.
                    We saw (in Corporate Longitude by Leif Edvinsson and Intangibles by Baruch Lev) that the market value of all publicly traded companies exceeded the market value of their tangible assets sometime in the early 90's. This gap has grown ever since. We assume that Knowledge accumulated inside a company is responsible for a good part of this difference. Ergo, our Knowledge Workers represent a very important, if mostly intangible, asset.
                    Because their main output is Knowledge, you can't quite measure what they are doing. If one of your best Knowledge Workers says she has her best ideas in the shower, you have no choice but to take her word for it. Knowledge Workers resist most controls on their quality and productivity. Sometimes this resistance is built into the rules of their professional associations (check out the rules and regulations of any legal or medical association and you'll witness this). Most Knowledge Workers hate bureaucracy and hierarchy. Some Knowledge Workers do not run on money: they prefer to be compensated with, for example, easier access to Knowledge.
                    Trouble is, our management models have changed little since the Industrial Revolution, so they're uniquely inadequate for managing Knowledge Workers. In fact, because the person who manages Knowledge Workers is in most cases a Knowledge Worker him/herself, this suggests that the ideal management model for Knowledge Workers must contain a "Player/Coach" flavor.
                    Enter Prof. Davenport, who has dedicated the past several years to the study of Knowledge Workers. This book distills most of what he has learned, and has a wealth of references to those who need more detail.
                    Knowledge Workers cannot easily be grouped into one category. One important lesson throughout the book is that, when coming to grips with the Knowledge Workers inside your company, you must segment them into different groups. After all, because Knowledge can be invented, discovered, packaged, distributed, or consumed, each Knowledge Worker you deal with will be active in one or more, but rarely all, of these activities. Prof Davenport proposes a basic taxonomy for this, with two dimensions: the level of interdependence among Knowledge Workers, and the level of Complexity of the work itself. This in turn spawns four basic models:
                    * Transaction Model (low interdependence, low complexity): The Knowledge Worker is essentially by him/herself and most of the situations he/she faces are repetitive. This is the only segment where "scripting" (ie, standard, pre-rehearsed speeches covering the most common situations) is effective. A good example of this is the 0800 customer-support people in a software company.
                    * Integration Model (high interdependence, low complexity): The task is repeatable but integration is critical, both intra-team and across disciplines. In this segment, the key is to establish tight process routines and standards. The best example of this is geologist/geophysicist/drilling engineer teams in oil&gas exploration.
                    * Expert Model (high complexity, low interdependence): Performance here is highly reliant on a person who contains most if not all the necessary Knowledge. Still, these people might profit from easy access to databases containing similar situations that took place in the past. Trial attorneys, systems analysts, and some types of medical doctors are excellent examples of this model.
                    * Collaboration Model (high complexity, high interdependence): People in these teams feel they're improvising all the time, when in fact there's an enormous degree of judgement in every decision made. This is the most difficult type of Knowledge-Worker team to improve in any organized way. Structured-deals teams in Investment Banks are probably the best example of this.
                    He is the first to admit that the above model is only a very basic first approach. When you do this in your company, you may find two or three of the above. Also, look out for hybrid situations. For example, a neurosurgeon fits the Expert model (without him, there's no surgery), but his supporting team (nurses, anesthesiologists, etc) fits the Collaboration model.
                    Prof. Davenport strongly encourages people to quickly move beyond the above models and develop their own Knowledge Worker segmentation models, and then to develop and use different management, performance-metrics, office-space, recruitment, remuneration, retention, succession, and IT-support strategies for each segment.
                    One set of research findings described in the book will not surprise most of us: business-process reengineering, a consulting buzzword in the past decade, has probably done more harm than good to the Knowledge Worker community.
                    The book also dispels some myths about Knowledge Workers with some hard research performed by Prof. Davenport and colleagues: for example, surprisingly few of them prefer to tele-commute (explanation: interaction among Knowledge Workers is critical to their success). Another interesting example is that they're not as much into electronic gadgets as we, coming from a geek stereotype, all thought.
                    Because it summarizes the author's past publications and research, the writing can be of variable quality, and progress from one chapter to the next is not exactly seamless, but neither of these foibles is enough to detract from the overall impact of a very timely and important book.
                    Some people may be offended by the summary at the end of each chapter; they didn't bother me, knowing there are so many print-challenged executives around us.
                    Highly recommended. Executive coaches dealing with technical teams may find this book invaluable.

                    2 out of 5 stars Written by a manger for managers.......2006-09-10

                    I was able to go cover to cover in about 5 minutes. If you manage people that use their brains to do their work and you have no idea how to understand, manage and motivate them then this book might help you out a bit. I found it to be off-topic for me as I was hoping that it was going to be written for the people who Think for a Living rather than their managers.
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