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Robert Shapirochairman and CEO, Monsanto CompanyTom Petzinger understands everything important in business -- how technology changes the world, how adaptive organizations work, how people do heroic things. And instead of preaching about it, he tells stories that are instantly understandable and unforgettable.

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This text looks at the world of business, from banking to baking to weaving and web design, to uncover the entrepreneurs on the edge of change in business today. Thomas Petzinger concludes that not only is there a "changing of the guards", but a revolution in values that emphasizes creativity and collaboration. The book includes 30 case studies from companies around the world. It is a study of a varied cast of innovators who value resiliance, reward and individuality more than conformity to a corporate engine.

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5.0 out of 5 stars PILGRIM'S PROGRESS FOR BUSINESSES, 8 Dec 1999

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This review is from: The New Pioneers: Men and Women Who are Transforming the Workplace (Hardcover)

Reviewing this book is a challenging task, because the book is written to be read and understood at many different levels. The simplest and most obvious level is as a series of charming stories in the best humanistic tradition that demonstrate that there is good business in being a good human. At a deeper level, Mr. Petzinger is also telling us that the economy is changing in a fundamental way because of the experiences of small and middle sized business leaders, such as those cited in the book. Beyond that, he is suggesting something fundamental about human civilization and its potential to create astonishing results. At whatever level you consider the book, you will be well rewarded for reading it. I must admit that it is tempting to ignore the book's shortcomings, but that would shortchange the principles that Mr. Petzinger is exploring. First, the reason that humanism works is very simple: The best results for any single person in an economic system are always the best results for every other single person in the economic system. In other words, balancing interests by serving them all creates vastly superior solutions for each and for all. Second, the economy is changing because we can suddenly accomplish much more by using a combination of better educated people with better decision-making tools. As you improve education for all and teach and allow people to learn and develop more decision-making styles that work, vast progress will follow. We are playing catch-up on hundreds of years of problems that we could not seriously attack with our minds and feelings until recently. Progress should be very rapid in such an environment. Third, Petzinger is right. Many of the people he describes are acting like Maslow would have predicted. Perhaps Maslow's prediction is a self-fulling prophecy, but worse things could happen. The key weakness of this book is that Petzinger fails to point toward how we can make even faster and more economically-valuable progress. By limiting himself to small and medium sized businesses, for example, he misses the opportunity to consider larger businesses that were recently small and medium sized businesses (Interface -- not a particularly good model -- is his only example in this category). In many cases, he is actually looking backward more than forward (as he describes that being environmentally conscious saves raw material costs and helps attract new customers and would make sense for someone who does not even care about the environment -- that is very old news). As heart-warming as this book is, it is a scrapbook rather than a vision for individual entrepreneurs. Its value for entrepreneurs is, nonetheless, quite substantial in stimulating ideas among readers by showing them new models that have not been widely published and discussed before. I hope all entrepreneurs will read this book for that important benefit. A fine effort from a talented journalist!

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5.0 out of 5 stars For business people, not reading this book is irresponsible., 18 May 1999

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Over the past ten years I've waded through dozens of books, scanned hundreds of essays, and searched through thousands of lines of consultancy procedures trying to provide optimum management input. Most of the material left me more in the dark, as it ran counter to my experience in the corporate environment and my own intuition. Finally, Tom Petzinger has documented and reinforced what I've seen work. New Pioneers is inspired and inspiring. It clearly showed me how to begin to tackle seemingly insurmountable problems within huge, entrenched, hierarchical organizations.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A must-read both for the individual and the organizations., 17 May 1999

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A must-read both for the individual and the organizations. By collecting Data from different human environments Petzinger draws general conclusions that are useful to know, as it were, the future, so we are empowered by those general conclusions. This is the main characteristic of the new science, where Data is not just a part anymore, but some sort of basic unit system in which both the quantitative and the qualitative are embedded. "The new pioneers celebrate individuality over conformity...and the new frontier is of technology, ideas and values" and "What a concept: Treating people individually and with dignity...turns out to be good for businness!" The new age of adaptation as Petzinger calls this new stage of mankind is certainly based on truly leadership, and this is what THE NEW PIONEERS is all about. "Just as economic pressures had once created larger and larger organizations, a new set of pressures began pushing business in the opposite direction.". Finally we have an optimistic and realistic message for this turbulent and changing times.

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4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent read, a series of reports from the new economy.
I enjoyed this book, its a good read [the author is a journalist], the case histories tell the story of the new economy. Read more

Published on 20 April 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Not to overstate, but this is a seminal business treatise
My only regret is that this work is 250 pages, not 500. Petzinger draws from years of face-to-face interviews with successful small business owners (and managers of plants... Read more

Published on 14 April 1999

4.0 out of 5 stars Great case studies, the rest of the text took some wading
As an employee slowly drowning under the burden of ISO9000 bureacracy, I was pleased to see any references in this book were at least slyly negative. Read more

Published on 6 April 1999

2.0 out of 5 stars I see a mix of good anecdotes and dubious conclusions.
I find myself uncomfortable with the author's broad generalizations that do not seem to be supported by the relatively few observations he presents. Read more

Published on 5 April 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars A tsunami of change in Millennium III's workplace.

Having just read, 'The New Pioneers,' now I know that Petzinger, without explicitly saying so, describes Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality (MoQ) being applied now, in the... Read more

Published on 31 Mar 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Universal Lessons
Tom Petzinger's "New Pioneers" elegantly describes many of the new businesses species that are rapidly emerging as our complex adaptive global economic system begins... Read more

Published on 19 Feb 1999

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