Reviews for Manufacturing strategy

The average rating for Manufacturing strategy based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-04-25 00:00:00 Richard Jaime I received a copy of this book from my workplace because we are getting bought out by another company. I attended a Working Through Transition class and all of the attendees received a copy of this book. This book is actually a guide for management to lead their employees through a successful transition. There is an ending, a neutral zone, and a new beginning. This book is not exactly geared for an employee finding out they are getting laid off. I will say it appears my company is doing a good job of managing this transition, at least as far as the suggestions and guidelines of this book. I found it interesting about the life cycle of organizations. It was also interesting to see what you should and should not do during a transition time. I think this book could be a valuable tool for managers. It wasn't, however, terribly meaningful to me in my particular situation. This isn't a book about how to cope with the upcoming stress of job loss that is looming on the horizon. I've been there, I've done that. It isn't pretty. (At least this time, I don't think it will be worse.) It's fine to talk about not being able to let go of something good, trying to find a place in a confusing neutral zone, and embracing something new, but my mortgage is going to need paid. My work place might have done better by handing out copies of managing stress related to a job loss, including financial stress. This is not the fault of this book, however. (I tried to get something meaningful out of it since I had to read it, but unfortunately a sense of cynicism caused me to make sarcastic comments in the margins.) There are several typos in this book in the form of missing words which was rather irritating. One Latin quote did not make sense to me because of the lack of the "being verb". I don't speak Latin, but something seemed off. "Omnia uno tempore agenda" looked like it would be translated "Everything one time done". The quote is actually "Omnia uno tempore erant agenda" - "Everything had to be done at once". Better proofreading would have helped.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-07-12 00:00:00 Stewart Smith The news that the grant which funds the work my team and I do was ending prompted me to return to this book I first read parts of when another "sea change" was coming to the AVID world: the retirement of Mary Catherine Swanson, and the appointment of a new Executive Director. Much was changing, and Chapter 3 of this Book ("How to Get People to Let Go") helped me gain perspective on managing my own feelings of grief, as well as helping those around me figure it out. It was the end of an era for the AVID Program, and the changes in the organization have only grown more rapid in the time since then. Now that the "final" transition is at hand (at least in terms of most of us in the CA Regions), I decided to read it from cover to cover. Bridges helps the reader understand the difference between change, which is constant, and transition, in which people's worlds are fundamentally altered. Although the author comes from a manufacturing and management focus, most of the book's advice remains relevant for me. Reading from both the perspective of someone who is "being transitioned" and from the angle of someone charged with leading my team through the resulting transitions, I gained immensely from the many acronym-themed processes, like the four P's (purpose, picture, plan, and part), and GRASS (guilt, resentment, anxiety, self-absorption, and stress). The final quote sets out the challenge: "Our moral responsibility is not to stop the future, but to shape it . . . To channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition." Alvin Toffler. We'll be working through that process together as a team for the next year. I recommend Bridges' book "Transitions" for those going through transitions; for those who lead others who must also make the passage, this book hits the mark. >^..^<