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Good Products, Bad Products: Essential Elements to Achieving Superior Quality
"This book is the most comprehensive discussion of all the elements that go into producing superior products that I have read. I have thought a lot about quality over many years, yet the thinking reflected throughout [this] discussion is a real eye-opener for me. For anyone seriously interested in quality, this is a must read."
--Donald E. Petersen, retired President and Ch...more
--Donald E. Petersen, retired President and Ch...more
Hardcover, 255 pages
Published
December 20th 2011
by McGraw-Hill
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This is the last time I read a business book written by a professor who has clearly never once in his (or her) career been accountable for people or money, responsible for profits and losses, or required to answer to Wall Street.
If you're a C-level executive and want a little light beach reading that might remind you of ways to think about your business from a different perspective, written by someone who brings some seriousness to the process...this is your book.
However, if you are a designer o...more
If you're a C-level executive and want a little light beach reading that might remind you of ways to think about your business from a different perspective, written by someone who brings some seriousness to the process...this is your book.
However, if you are a designer o...more
I don't know that I am the reader that Adams had in mind when writing the book, and I am sure that I am not the reader that the publisher had in mind when thinking about who to market this book to, as this book is definitely geared towards folks in product design/manufacturing, etc. With that being said, I have to say, that I LOVED this book. Adams is an incredible thinker. He has vast experience in the world of design and products and has some awesome stuff to say about it all. I was interested...more
I was disappointed after reading this book b/c I had hoped to gain some insight into good product design, maybe some detailed case studies of successful designs that changed consumer behavior. Instead, I felt like the book was poorly-organized and unfocused (too much rambling). For all of the chapters about aesthetics and craftsmanship, I was surprised that there were no pictures of well-made products with good form and functionality as well as pictures of bad products. Not a book worth reading.
'Good Products, Bad Products...' was a book I won from a giveaway on Goodreads. This book was a very interesting read. I as a person who does not think about all the aspects that need to go into creating a good product, this book opened my eyes to that. The author does a nice job of explaining the many aspects of a quality product. James L. Adams makes me want to put on my engineering cap and come up with the newest quality product.
This was a waste. Never went into any depth. Almost nothing but fluff. It is a 3 page pamphlet spread out over 200 pages.
Disclaimer: I received this book through First Reads.
Disclaimer: I received this book through First Reads.
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