Bøger af Derrick van Mell

The decision to build a building is one of the most lasting, complex, and stressful decisions a leader makes. The stakes for the organization and the decision-maker are huge. Buildings Matter is a well organized and plainly written guide to architecture that is immediately useful to the CEOs, directors, statesmen, and deans faced with the risks and opportunities of having a building designed and built.

All the CEOs interviewed for this book are intensely frustrated with the jargon, cost, time requirement and general ineffectiveness of "strategic planning". But their key complaint is about the MBA facilitators: "We don't want them to tell us what to do; we just want them to ask us good questions." Question-Based Planning (QBP) asks good questions in plain English in a systematic way. It's completed in five 2-hour meetings over five weeks and ends in a 1-page plan. It includes monthly progress reviews and annual updates. It transforms planning from a frustrating, contentious exercise into a productive, positive and effective act of leadership.

Being a great boss can make a huge difference in people's lives. In 2022, there were 887 accredited MBA programs in the world, so why hasn't there been a simple, standard book clearly defining the manager's job? Atoms & Orchestras: The Case for Standards-Based Management finally gives the world a common language of terms, tools, and practices. The standards include the one-page Pledge of Managerial Power, the single-screen General Management Index (The Index) of terms and practices, and the half-page Milwaukee Model of Manager Development. The Toolkit includes one-page tools-tested with hundreds of executives in every sector-for meeting management, planning, process improvement, and project oversight. Concise, readable, practical, Atoms & Orchestras can be read section by section, each of which ends with a recap and a simple set of individual and group activities to try. The last chapter, "Management as a Calling," makes the plea that managers can and should think of their work like other helping professions. Be the boss everyone wants to work for!