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  • Hardcover: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Jossey Bass; Commemorative Edition edition (1 Jun 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0787987751
  • ISBN-13: 978-0787987756
  • Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 14.8 x 2.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 261,966 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Townsend shouldn′t just be read, he should be memorized."
Tom Peters

"The sagest (and even most outrageous) book ever written about how business should be run."
—Harper’s Magazine

"Bob Townsend′s words still ring true, truer than they seemed almost 40 years ago."
Warren Bennis

"Robert Townsend′s book continues to light up the business world with straightforward and practical management advice that is as pertinent today as when originally published. A must–read for all managers!"
Ray Davis, president and CEO, Umpqua Holdings Corporation

"Townsend proves that the best business wisdom is timeless. In an era filled with business buzzwords and ethical misdirections, Townsend′s bluntness makes for refreshing and hilarious reading for the next crop of CEOs."
Ben Casnocha, chairman, Comcate, Inc., author, My Start–Up Life

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Although it was first published more than thirty–five years ago, Up the Organization continues to top the lists of best business books by groups as diverse as the American Management Association, Strategy + Business (Booz Allen Hamilton), and The Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management. 1–800–CEO–READ ranks Townsend’s bestseller first among eighty books that “every manager must read.”

This commemorative edition offers a new generation the benefit of Robert Townsend’s timeless wisdom as well as reflections on his work and life by those who knew and worked with him. This groundbreaking book continues to remind us not to get mired in all those sacred organizational routines that stifle people and strangle both profits and profitability. He shows a way to humanize business and a way to have fun while making it all work better than it ever worked before.


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This is a reprint of a classic best-selling book on business that has been widely copied but never duplicated. Yes, other successful collections of short, clever aphorisms have appeared and faded, but Robert Townsend had the ability to pierce the heart of the matter with stiletto sharpness. Just gloss over the small out-of-date references (like salary levels) and enjoy his ABCs of management. While some of Townsend's recommendations still seem radical, he lived by these principles, and was a very successful, popular executive with Avis and American Express. getAbstract cautions that this is a book of epigrams, not a narrative, so it might be a little choppy. Still, Townsend manages to balance a savvy, fun attitude with serious, strategic advice.
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
A first class work by man who cuts through all the bull that chokes most large organizations. We need a Prime minister like him, in fact an entire cabinet.
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I first read this book as a CEO in my early thirties and it has been my bible ever since. You can keep your shelf-full of Drucker; here's a How To from someone who has done it. I have a cookery book called "The only cook book you will ever need" and this is in the same category for business management. No waffle, no filler, just real examples of what he actually did in raising Avis from 1/2% of the US market to 20% in three years; the same as the market leader at that time, Hertz.
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