Predictable Results in Unpredictable Times. Covey , Whitman and England.
Review of the book:
This book gave me more insight about how to get the right things done in an organization than any other management book I have ever read. It is delightful to read and simple to see how its principles can be applied. --Clayton M. Christensen, Robert & Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Product Description
If there is one thing that is certain in business, it is uncertainty; still, some companies perform reliably and with excellence in spite of changing circumstances. Predictable Results in Unpredictable Times is about four essentials for getting great performance in good times and bad.
(1) Excellent Execution: Winning companies have simple goals with clear targets and strong follow-through. All team members know what to do about the goals and they execute precisely.
(2) High Trust Levels with All Stakeholders: Low trust slows you down and raises your costs especially in times of turmoil. But when trust levels rise, everything speeds up and costs go down.
(3) Achieving More with Less: In tough times, everyone tries to do more with less, but the real question is more of what? Winning companies focus on giving more value not just cutting back.
(4) Transforming Fear into Engagement: Unpredictable times create anxieties that distract you just when you need total focus. Winning organizations entrust people with a mission and strategy they can believe in, channeling their anxiety into results.
These principles can help companies win regardless of the turbulence of the ride or the shock of overwhelming change.
About the Author
Dr. Stephen R. Covey is an internationally respected leadership authority, teacher, writer, organizational consultant, and co-founder and vice chairman of FranklinCovey Co. He is author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, which Chief Executive magazine has called the most influential business book of the last 100 years. The book has sold nearly 20 million copies, and after 20 years still holds a place on most best-seller lists.
Dr. Covey earned an MBA from Harvard and a doctorate from BYU, where he was a professor of organizational behavior. For more than 40 years he has taught millions of people including presidents of nations and corporations the transforming power of the principles that govern individual and organizational effectiveness. He and his wife live in the Rocky Mountains of Utah.
Robert A. Whitman is chairman of the board and CEO of FranklinCovey.
A Harvard MBA, Whitman was one of four managing partners, CFO, and a board member of Trammell Crow Group. Later, as president and Co-CEO of the private equity firm Hampstead Group, he acquired significant equity in and helped a number of companies in the hospitality, retirement housing, restaurant, and theme park industries achieve significant growth. He has served on the board of Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, and as chairman and CEO of Forum Group Inc., now part of Marriott International.
Fascinated by FranklinCovey s mission to help build great and enduring organizations, and already serving on its board, Whitman joined the company as chairman and CEO in January 2000. Since then, he has immersed himself in the inner workings of hundreds of FranklinCovey client organizations to understand what it takes to produce the outcomes of greatness.
An avid mountaineer, rock and ice climber, Whitman enjoys climbing in the Rocky Mountains and the Alps. He has finished the Hawaii Ironman World Triathlon Championship race nine times.
Bob and his wife are the parents of two children and make their home in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Thursday, August 20, 2009
2009 Tel Aviv-Yafo Dudu Topaz Tragic Suicide
Dudu Topaz like Zohar Argov will not be Forgotten
All though the story is not the same Zohar Argov also died in Jail and became more famous after his death,
Dudu Topaz should have been prevented from Suicide.
The Pressure of the Media and the Social-Political pressure is similar.
Much of Dudu Topaz`s Material will stay with us and his Family.
Tragic and unfair end. He would have recovered in a Regular Jail.
That was my Response to Haaretz Article to this Tragedy.
I met Dudu when I worked in Century Tower some years ago.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Saturday, August 8, 2009
2009 2nd August Tel Aviv-Yafo Amos Kenan Dies
I spoke to Rona Kenan at Protest Sunday following Murder attack at Homo-Lesb Center.
Amos Kenan, Israeli Writer and Iconoclast, Dies at 82
Amos Kenan, an iconoclastic Israeli writer whose anti-religious and anti-Zionist views made him a longstanding irritant to the political establishment, died on Tuesday in Tel Aviv. He was 82.
Plans for his funeral were announced to The Associated Press by Uri Avnery, a friend and colleague of Mr. Kenan’s since they served together in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. No cause of death was given in wire-service reports.
Mr. Kenan, who fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war but also belonged to the anti-Zionist and anti-religious Canaanite movement, consistently roiled Israel’s political and cultural waters as a columnist, novelist, playwright, painter, sculptor, screenwriter and filmmaker. Somehow he maintained a career as a restaurant critic as well.
He was a scathing critic of Israeli religious leaders, and when the mood suited, extended his range beyond Judaism.
His play “Friends Talk About Jesus” was banned from the stage by the Israeli Supreme Court in 1972 for being unacceptably contemptuous of religion.
Politically he was unpredictable. In the 1980s he scandalized his old comrades from the pre-1948 underground when he compared the Palestinian struggle to their own youthful campaign, and in his fiction he took an absurdist, dystopian view of Israel’s future.
Mr. Kenan was born as Amos Levine in Tel Aviv. His parents were secular socialists, and as a teenager he joined the socialist-Zionist Hashomer Hatzair (Youth Guard) and dropped out of high school to work in a factory.
As the struggle for Israeli statehood gathered momentum, he joined the Lehi, referred to by the British as the Stern Gang, the most extreme of the underground paramilitary organizations in Palestine.
At the same time, influenced by the poet Yonatan Ratosh, he joined the Canaanites, a small but influential group of artists and writers who hoped to build a Hebrew rather than a Jewish state in the biblical land of Canaan that would embrace both Arabs and Jews. It regarded Judaism and Islam as retrograde, and dissociated itself from the Jewish Diaspora. He was a founder of the group’s magazine, Alef.
After fighting in the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 war, in which he was wounded, he began writing a satirical column, Uzi & Co., in the newspaper Haaretz, and began taking potshots at important religious figures.
In 1953 he was arrested on suspicion of throwing a bomb into the garden of the transportation minister, who had just banned driving on the Sabbath. Although the courts acquitted him, the newspaper’s publisher fired him.
From 1954 to 1962 he lived in Paris, where he wrote several plays influenced by the Theater of the Absurd.
He also wrote two newspaper columns, the Wandering Knife for Haolam Hazeh and Sparks From the City of Lights for Yediot Aharonot.
After returning to Israel in 1962, he picked up where he left off. He inaugurated a new column in Yediot Aharonot that ran for the next 40 years and published his first novella, “At the Station” (1963).
His most successful novel was “The Road to Ein Harod,” an Orwellian mixture of history, fantasy and philosophy in which an Israeli and an Arab are thrown together after a military coup sends Israel hurtling toward fascism.
In 1970 Mr. Kenan helped found the Israeli-Palestinian Council. He later joined Ariel Sharon’s Shlomtzion Party, named after Mr. Kenan’s daughter Shlomtzion.
Mr. Kenan is survived by his companion of nearly 50 years, Nurit Gertz, and their daughters, the poet and singer Rona Kenan and Shlomtzion Kenan.
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