Category: Reviews
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Book Review: Beyond Budgeting
Beyond Budgeting: How Managers Can Break Free from the Annual Performance Trap by Jeremy Hope is about how to break free from the yearly budgeting process. Jeremy makes a strong case for decentralization in business. One of the most notable examples in the book is Svenska Handelsbanken (SHB) which moved beyond budgeting and the fixed…
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Book Review: Future Search
Future Search by Marvin Weisbord & Sandra Janoff is a planning meeting setup involving the whole system. It has been in use since the early 1980s. I find the approach interesting since it flattens hierarchies, broaden the lines of communication, and encourages a dialogue born from the deep knowledge in each person in the system. The…
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Book Review: How to Change the World
How to Change the World: Change Management 3.0 by Jurgen Appelo is a small book (70 pages) which is easy to read. The core of the book is a combination of a number of ideas into a superidea, or as the author calls it, a supermodel. There are a few words of wisdom, but overall…