| Kenneth
Blanchard, Author, "The One Minute Manager" |
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...Ralph Stayer...is the hero of Tom Peter's management
video 'The Leadership Alliance' and is absolutely the most creative
management thinker to |
| Tom
Peters, Author, "In Search of Excellence" |
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These are crazy times in the world's market place. They
call for bold efforts on the part of business and political leaders. No
business leader in America has been more bold, and few have been more
successful, than Ralph Stayer. It is exciting to have contemplate Ralph
and Jim Belasco, whose work and writings I respect enormously, teaming up
to offer their insights to us.
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Jerre Stead,
former President, Ingram Micro
formerly President of Global Business Communications, Division of
AT&T/NCR |
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This book is awesome. Jim and Ralph have done a wonderful
job in a great book of helping all of us understand the changes we need to
make and more importantly the opportunities we've got for our future. It
is exciting. Their book can serve as a handbook of management for people
throughout the industrial world of how to make things happen in the new
environment of change we have today. It is a classic and one that I'm
proud to have had an opportunity to review.
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Lester Korn, Chairman
Emeritus of Korn-Ferry International
(one of the world's largest executive recruiting firms) |
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Flight of the Buffalo" is the best of the new
generation of proactive business books that effectively teaches by example
and empowers the reader to achieve excellence in any operation.
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| Robert
Kriegal, author "If It Ain't Broke...Break It!" |
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Hell of a book! Lots of great ideas, information and
examples that will turn managers into leaders.
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Human Resource Executive
"Ten Explosive Years of HR Ideas and Innovation," May 6,
1997 |
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This book is a virtual procedural manual because it pairs
the visionary concepts of two successful businessmen with nuts-and-bolts
case histories.
Belasco and Stayer claim the old leadership model, in
which the CEO sets an agenda and then attempts to motivate people to
implement it, is truly outdated. The writers believe it has been replaced
in a revolutionary new paradigm of employee leadership--the person doing
the work must own the responsibility for it.
They lament what they call "feudal thinking"
on the part of leaders and discuss how their leadership model can be
applied directly to pressing business decisions.
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Entrepreneur
"When Buffalo Fly," July 1993 |
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"...it's a handbook for teaching employees to stop
following and start taking initiative."
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New Jersey Courier-Post
"Finally, Bosses Who Don't Just Stand Around And Give
Orders" May 1993 |
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"FLIGHT OF THE BUFFALO" is (an) image of
traditional management's being like a buffalo herd, with the top buffalo
making all the decisions and the herd buffalo standing around waiting for
orders (with the hunters picking them off one by one). The metaphor for
enlightened management is...a gaggle of geese. Geese don't have a leader.
Each goose takes a turn at the tip of their V-formation and all watch out
for hazards."
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Floyd Resnick, TOTAL
EMPLOYEE October 1993 |
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"James Belasco and Ralph Stayer offer a revolutionary
model of employee leadership--and sound, experience-based advice on how to
get there.
The (text) returns again and again to the central
question leaders must ask themselves: 'What am I doing or not doing, as a
leader, that prevents people from assuming responsibility and performing
at a new level?' Though Flight of the Buffalo reveals leadership insight
gained by people 'at the top,' the blueprint for change it offers is
applicable to all leaders interested in empowering people around them.
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