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Now Available: Success with Simplicity : Take Management Back to Basics
New for 2006 is David Brewster's first book, Success with Simplicity: Take Management Back to Basics
You've enjoyed David's writing on this website; now you can take it with you or, better still, pass it on and give your colleagues and friends the gift of simplicity.
From the back cover:
"Whatever happened to Management? Despite over 100 years of practice, relentless research and a proliferation of productivity tools, a very large number of managers are finding their role more punishing than ever. Many are giving up the challenge altogether.
In Success with Simplicity, David Brewster strips management back to basics. Written in a fast-paced and highly readable style, this book will test your preconceptions of management and offer you a refreshing perspective.
Addressing the diverse responsibilities of management, including customer service, productivity, communication, decision making and many more, David Brewster offers you a unique insight in to how working with simplicity can help you succeed as a manager."
Get your copy of Success with Simplicity : Take Management Back to Basics now:
- You can order directly from our publisher, Monterey Press, using your Visa or Mastercard and other payment methods from our secure store.Click here to order.
- Your can also order from Amazon.com: Click here
- Bookstores and other bulk buyers: email info@monterey-press.com and we'll be in touch shortly.
Success with Simplicity is also available at AIM Business Books, or ask your local book store to order it in for you.
What's Inside?
Success with Simplicity brings together the best of nearly five year's articles by David Brewster. Completely updated, the articles have been linked together in sections covering everything from 'Simplicity for Strategy' to 'Simplicity and You'. No matter what your area of concern, you will find in this book ideas and inspiration for making the worklife of yourself and those around you a lot less complicated.
This is a book you can read through from cover to cover on a plane trip (it's 144 pages) or dip in and out of at your whim. A simple book full of simple messages.
Sections include:
- Simplicity for Management
- Simplicity for Strategy
- Simplicity for Getting and Keeping Customers
- Simplicity for Productivity
- Simplicity for Decision Making
- Simplicity for Good Communication
- Simplicity for Innovation
- Simplicity and Your People
- Simplicity and You
From the Introduction
"When preparing for a recent business trip, it struck me that I was spending more time making sure I had a full set of batteries and power cords than making sure I had enough clothes! But as I arrived at the airport without a paper ticket to lose or forget, it struck me that all is not lost in the pursuit of simplicity."
Simplicity. A beautiful word. A word which, by its mention alone, creates a sense of relief in this increasingly complex world. Simplicity is a value most would agree is something worth striving for. But so often it seems all to hard - if indeed we have time to think about it at all.
And that's where the problem starts. For simplicity doesn't just 'happen'. In fact without conscious effort the opposite – increased complexity - is almost certain to happen...."
From the author: "Success with Simplicity is for Every Manager"
"No matter what size your organisation, what industry you're in, what level you operate at or what role you play. My aim is that you will find the inspiration in these pages to take a fresh, 'back-to-basics' look at the challenge of management.
Perhaps, like many of the managers I speak to, you are overwhelmed and no longer enjoy your job. I hope that here you will find some light at the end of that long tunnel. Perhaps that light will bring your challenges into sharper relief and put you in a better position to overcome them.
Alternatively, you may be right on top of the job but looking for ways to take your role or your business the next step. Building simplicity into your products, services and communications can be a powerful way to differentiate your business. My wish is that this book will act as a catalyst to help you do that.
Success with Simplicity not a 'how-to' book. Nor is it a book which needs to be read from cover to cover. It is a collection of self-contained articles designed to provoke thought and motivate. Some articles will be more relevant to your unique situation than others.
Which brings me to my challenge to you. I hope that you will take the messages from Success with Simplicity and apply those which have relevance to your own circumstances, in ways which will work in your own circumstances. There are few right answers in this world, but there are many better ones.
Get your copy of Success with Simplicity : Take Management Back to Basics now:
- You can order directly from our publisher, Monterey Press, using your Visa or Mastercard and our secure order page. Click here to order.
- Your can also order from Amazon.com: Click here
- Bookstores and other bulk buyers: email sales@successwithsimplicity.com and we'll be in touch shortly.
Success with Simplicity is also available at AIM Business Books, or ask your local book store to order it in for you.
