Getting it Done - Hardcover

Fisher, Roger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0887308422 ISBN 13: 9780887308420

Publisher: Harper Business, 1997

Synopsis

Addressing the important issue of collaboration in today's workplace, this guide to group success shares how individuals can come together to formulate common goals, a course of action, and ultimately complete a project as a team.

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Review

"This timely, practical, skill-based book beautifully answers the typical seminar complaint, This is good, but the person who really needs it is not here.' It'll inspire you with the power of example, clear thinking, and the tools to pull off successful, sustainable collaboration with or without formal authority."-- Dr. Stephen R. Covey, author of "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People""Negotiation master Roger Fisher has done it again. "Getting It Done" is a highly useful, clear, no-nonsense guide to successful persuasion and influence. It should become the best friend to managers, professionals, and ambitious working people everywhere."-- Rosabeth Moss Kanter, author of "World Class" and "Rosabeth Moss Kanter on the Frontiers of Management""Profound lessons made simple by one of the world's great teachers."-- Ronald A. Heifetz, author of "Leadership Without Easy Answers""To get the work done today, you must be able to collaborate. Roger Fisher and Alan Sharp have provided the best road map that I have seen for collaborating, navigating, and leading your way through ambiguity and unclear lines of authority."-- Philip J. Harkins, president and CEO, Linkage Incorporated"Improving the way we work with others requires changing both their habits and our own. "Getting It Done" shows how to produce the kind of joint behavior that produces results."-- Robert B. Cialdini, author of "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion""This book is must reading for those seeking to maximize their contribution to the constructive work of the world."-- Charles T. Munger, vice chairman, Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

About the Author

Alan Sharp has been a senior manager in the eletronics and chemical industries. He is now a management consultant based in England and a director of Coverdale Scanas, a Danish consultancy firm. He has trained many top executives in business and governmental agencies in building effective teams.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harper Business
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0887308422
• ISBN 13: 9780887308420
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 219