Pursuit of Prime

by Ichak Adizes

Pursuit of Prime - Chinese Edition

Genres: Business, Nonfiction

264 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[Book Princess (Anastasia) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Корисний нон-фікшн для всіх власників бізнесу. Адізес дає поради, дає інструменти, завдяки яким можна визначити етап, на якому знаходиться компанія, а також як вийти на рівень Розквіту і залишатися там. Зміни - це неминуча складова на шляху до розквіту. Ще Адізес розвінчує різні міфи щодо керування компанією і дає дієві поради, як уникнути занепаду та смерті бізнесу. Професійно, конкретно, мотиваційно. Книга має стати настільною літературою кожного підприємця.

З мінусів (для мене) - орієнтована більше на власників бізнесів, ніж на тих, хто хоче почитати книгу заради загального розвитку.

Як професійна література книга чудова.

[Jason Braatz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dr. Adizes looks at the company's lifecycle much differently than, say, Michael E. Porter as written in Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors . Whereas one style is that there's a business cycle with a beginning and and end, the author makes a great business case of why a business can actually exist forever and how it's achieved.

This was written well before the success of Apple, and given that it's also referenced in this book (only when the company was much different) demonstrates his interesting thesis. If a company were in a mode of "always-innovating" (think 3M) and reversing direction when it's harvesting too much, it stays in this state of Prime. Prime isn't perfection, it's the notch before it. That makes empirical sense; when a business becomes routinized, it becomes stale quickly thereafter and it's hard to recover. On the other hand, when things are still in the mode of being innovated through, the employees and partners to the organization give it a much stronger effort than they would otherwise.

This is as applicable to a Mom & Pop shop as it is a Fortune 500 company. In fact, had some Fortune 500's from years back understood Dr. Adizes's premise, they wouldn't be in failure-recovery mode (like Kodak, Xerox, etc.)

The only bad part is this: the author tries to make it a little easier to read with interjections of humor (which are indeed actually funny) here and there, but it's still a business book, and that sometimes gets in the way of the point being made. Outside of that, I believe Dr. Adizes's Institute still exists, but more importantly, this should be required reading for anyone in a leadership position or someone setting up to become an entrepreneur.

[Olha Boiko · Rating 5 out of 5]

Дійсно чудова книга для менеджерів. Концепція життєвого циклу організацій, яка тут представлена, може допомогти розібратись з кризами, через які проходить ваша. Більше користі для бізнесів, але громадським організаціям теж дуже релевантно.

Це точно не "чергова книжка з купою води, яка могла би бути статтею". Хоча прочитати статті про життєвийцикл оррганізацій теж можна, це буде краще ніж нічого.

[Guillermo · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great book that clearly states how there are not magic bullets in the world of management. What could make a company be in a prime position differs based on where it is on its lifecycle. What may be healthy a healthy approach to develop a startup, may on the other hand kill a mature organisation. Unfortunately few people understand this, whatever is the latest and greatest management approach, should not be consider as the ultimate solution for every company on every situation, at least not before an outside in intervention done the right way.