No-Excuses Management: Proven Systems for Starting Fast, Growing Quickly, and Surviving Hard Times

by T.J. Rodgers

A guide to out-innovating, out-executing, and out-hustling the competition takes readers inside the author's own office, revealing his ""hiring book,"" memos, files, and dictaphone reports. 35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo.

Genres: Business

296 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1993

Reviews

[Max Lybbert]

TJ Rodgers has something of a no holds barred approach. I can't say whether I'd enjoy working for Cypress (as it was 20 years ago), but there is a lot of food for thought in this book.

The book includes a number of internal memos by Rodgers -- the majority of which are as blunt as you'd expect. The book shipped with demo software, and instructions for that software pad the book's page count.

[JP]

I would want to work in his culture, but it's clear how they fit in and rose as a Silicon Valley firm. The ideas and systems related to goal tracking, expense management, performance management, and internal communication are all worth strong consideration. I found myself frequently asking why we don't do some of these things, but also knowing parts of it wouldn't fly.