A great help to anyone looking to bring a good idea into the real world.
De Flander’s (Strategy Execution Heroes, 2010) latest book charts a strategy for taking any idea off the drawing board and into real life.
Coming up with a great idea is the easy part; executing it is much trickier. That’s where this book is intended to help. The execution shortcut referenced in the title is a pathway De Flander has mapped out to help ideas make it past the shoals of development. In the first chapter, he explains the importance of appealing to the three H’s: head, heart and hands. In addition to appealing to reason and emotion (the head and heart, respectively), an idea must also be achievable (the hands). The rest of the book is divided into sections that explain how to engage the heads, hearts and hands of the implementation team: In the head section, De Flander describes the common psychological impediments—i.e., “the villain Decision Paralysis on the execution road”—to implementing a new idea; the heart section discusses ways to connect with the implementers’ emotions and inspire them to adopt the idea as their own; and the hands section covers various problems that arise during implementation as well as the corresponding solutions. At the end of the book, De Flander also includes a few resources for further investigation. The well-researched work cites various studies and examples that back up De Flander’s plan, as well as fictional stories that point out how specific ideas have succeeded or failed and why. Similarly, for most steps on this road map, he includes a thorough explanation of how to incorporate his tactics in the real world. For example, after explaining the importance of writing a “List of Noes”—the areas into which an idea will not venture—De Flander gives several examples of how to come up with that list for any given idea. Other steps in his plan, however, are a bit lacking in this regard.
A great help to anyone looking to bring a good idea into the real world.Pub Date: Sept. 17, 2013
ISBN: 978-9081487368
Page Count: 196
Publisher: The Performance Factory
Review Posted Online: Sept. 1, 2013
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 15, 2013
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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