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Comments by Academicians
and Practitioners
About the book,
Next-Generation Management, Leadership, and Organization Development
Initial Reviews (complete original statements)
“The
concepts and ideas in Next Generation Management Development: The Complete
Guide and Resource are
powerful tools
to help train managers to be effective leaders.” ― Jay W. Lorsch,
Louis E. Kirstein Professor of Human Relations, Harvard Business School
(Over more than forty years at HBS, Professor Lorsch has been Chairman of
the Organizational Behavior Department, the Continuing Education Program, and
the Executive Education Program.)
“This
monumental work
is a ‘must read’ for management educators, organization development
executives, and even those managers who know much about management but have
never quite tied it all together. Packed with gems such as well-known gurus’
concepts, an exceptional number of innovative insights and models, and many
practical tools, it’s the
closest to being a
comprehensive bible on general management that I’ve ever seen.”
“Cecil and Rothwell have combined over 50 years of practical experiences into a
treasure chest of
training materials complete with useful concepts, models, tools, and
techniques for MD/OD professionals, Chief Learning Officers, senior HR
professionals, strategic planners, and general managers. It’s a truly
magnificent piece of
work that will become the
‘must have’ reference for developing managers, leaders, and entire
organizations.”
Linda Hill of Harvard Business School’s organizational behavior department and
Len Schlesinger, once an assistant dean of Harvard B-School, said, “(Several
of)
your management models are ahead of
what we’re doing at Harvard and are better than any I’ve/we’ve ever seen―but
we’re working on similar things.” (They were mostly referring to
The Managerial Target® and
Unified Practice of ManagementTM
models.)
Janice McCormick, a (now-retired) Harvard Business School professor of
organizational behavior before becoming executive director of the HBS doctoral
program, said of my book, “No
one has ever written anything even close to this” (in terms of
interrelating and integrating so many management concepts and models in one
model—the Unified Practice of ManagementTM
model).
“The
book covers all the major topics typically found in a basic organizational
behavior textbook.” . . . (It provides) “a framework in which the authors
have linked the multiple jigsaw pieces of various theories and concepts
regarding management and management development. Their diagrams of how these
pieces fit together are quite extensive and logically laid out. It is easy to
see how the works of various authors, such as Ouchi, Drucker, Mintzberg, Senge
and a multitude of others, fit within their framework.”. . . “The authors do an
excellent job of outlining The Managerial
Target® model and their approach to organization and managerial
development.” . . . (The
Unified Practice of Management™ model) “has successfully
integrated decades of theories and
research to develop a best practice or 'how to' model which provides an
excellent guide on the process of management.”
. . . (Thus, the book) “is an excellent resource for program developers and
trainers.”
Next-Generation Management Development
is “an
impressive analysis of management complexity.”
“As a corporate executive, management trainer, and management consultant for over forty years, I’ve participated in, reviewed, selected, used, and applied many of the best management training courses and programs available. In my opinion, R. D. Cecil’s Next-Generation Management, Leadership, and Organization Development contains a program that is miles beyond anything I’ve ever seen in terms of its comprehensiveness and depth, its many innovative perspectives and models, and its full integration with both organization development and strategic management. In fact, you’re so far ahead of everybody else that, regardless of how much you try to explain it to them without their actually seeing it, they’re not going to understand what you’ve done and will just think it’s more of the same old stuff.” ― Keith L. Irons, Chairman, Irons Group Ltd., successful business executive, and long-time management trainer and strategic planning consultant.
Robert Hogan, Ph.D., a psychometrician and head of the internationally known
psychological testing firm, Hogan Assessment Systems, called my
Managerial Target® model
“ingenious” (in the way it relates the levels of various groups of
personal traits to an individual’s tendency to use a particular managerial or
leadership style―most of the time and in the absence of contravening
socio-technical/cultural influences operating both inside and outside an
organization).
About the 2,400-page Management Training
Series from which N-GML&OD Was
Excerpted
Kenneth L. Grisham, a previous VP of Development for NETg (National Education and Training Group in Naperville, IL, then a competitor of Smartforce and University of Phoenix Online), once said, “If we were to adopt your management training program, it would put us years ahead of any of our competitors” (because everybody else’s many little training modules are so disjointed and unintegrated).
Janice McCormick, the Harvard B-School professor of organizational behavior who
became executive director of the HBS doctoral program, said that an earlier
book, Managerial Behavior and Development,
is “better than anything else out there on managerial behavior―especially in
terms of synthesizing what many have said on the subject.” She called
The Managerial Target® “nifty.” And
she called the entire (management training) series “formidable”―in terms of all
that has been pulled together, integrated, and put into perspective. In
addition, she described these materials as “clear, concise, and practical.”
About Marketplace Analysis, Strategic
Planning, and Knowledge Management
John
W. McCarter, a now-retired senior partner in the Chicago office of
Booz-Allen
(at one time the premier strategic planning consulting firm), once said, “We
have maybe two-thirds of all the planning materials you’ve developed.”
Gerald A. Smith (now retired from IBM’s Chicago office), a consultant who has
also been coordinator of (and facilitator for) the company’s Team Focus Centers
around the country, once said, “What
you’re doing with factor checklists to develop qualitative knowledge bases
(QIBs) and diagrammatic knowledge bases (DKBs) within a strategic planning
context is
five to ten years ahead of
what even IBM is doing.” [He was talking about my “Zero-Base Systems
Analysis” (ZBSA) methodology and my use of huge TeamThink Walls™.]
A
strategic planner for General Electric once remarked, “We have mountains and
mountains of information, but no way to make sense of it all. You have a way to
make it all more meaningful.”
(ZBSA.)
Bipin Junnarkar, a former Director of Knowledge Management at
Monsanto, once
said, “We are inundating our people with data, but they are unable to handle it
all. Your methods and tools can help significantly.”
(He, too, was talking about ZBSA.)
About R. D. Cecil and Company’s Programs
“The five-day seminar was a completely
enjoyable and intellectually stimulating experience. More importantly, it
contributed directly to improving the Center’s training capability and mission
effectiveness . . . The objectives established for
the seminar were exceptionally well met. The
extensive and well-developed materials
you
provided for our study, and your review of many approaches to managerial and
organizational development,
indeed provided us with an expanded and
reinforced understanding of how to improve managerial performance.
I was particularly impressed with your
insight, methodology, and the quality of your written material
. . .
Your seminar was excellent and our time devoted to it was thoroughly well
spent.”
Your seminar was . . .
“a refreshing new approach to management performance improvement.
Your analytic techniques for individual and organizational
development present an opportunity for trainers and consultants to evaluate the
effectiveness of their efforts . . .
Your seminar
materials are certainly comprehensive.
A great deal of insight, research and innovation is reflected in your
writing. Since I attended the
seminar, application of some of the methods is evidenced in my managerial
behavior.”
“The training was well received, met
objectives, and contributed to overall staff awareness, knowledge, and growth .
. .
I was particularly impressed with the
quality of your texts. I consider them to be
ahead of the state of
the art. Your synthesis of management skills, as well as your insight into “9,9” (and
how to implement it) were highlights. I particularly liked the manner in which
you integrated the week’s activities, and found those models very useful.
In
fact, your emphasis on models and model building was a strong point.”