Product Description

Six Disciplines Leadership Centers are dedicated to helping small businesses achieve and sustain success. Six Disciplines for Excellence provides six fundamental business principles that are specifically designed to help small businesses move beyond momentary success to attain enduring excellence. This book is not for those who are looking for a quick fix. Six Disciplines for Excellence is a long-term fitness program, not a fad diet.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7784 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 296 pages

Lindy Lopez, President, Research for Action
"Nobody helps you figure out how to manage the company to get results in such an easy to understand way..."

Johnny Warren, Co-Founder, Cornerstone Management
"This book shows me how I can systematically move by busines from existence to excellence. I can do this."

Terry Terhark, Founder, The Right Thing
"I've never read a book that was so tailored to small businesses..."

Customer Reviews

LIFE CHANGING! .. no exaggeration
Incredibly useful book. Every page is filled with a lot of good information and best practices.

One of the greatest business books ever written. I have implemented the Six Disciplines into both of my companies and achieved great results.

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Excellent Book, Buy it!
If you are a small business or work with small businesses, buy this book. The author brings a wealth of real life experience to the table, distilling concepts from several leading business gurus into a format that works for a small business.

Straight to the point, well-organized, and extremely practical.
Before I comment on the book, I should say that I've been consulting on management and leadership issues for more than 18 years, working with the entire spectrum of business--from small regional concerns to companies in the Fortune 500. Much of my work during this time has been with leadership and management teams, enhancing and refining their thinking processes and tools to move them from surviving to thriving. Over the years I kept honing my programs to provide the best and most essential components. After working with hundreds of businesses, I've seen, heard, and read a lot.

So with that background, I have to give Six Disciplines for Excellence a full and complete endorsement. Too many books on management and leadership talk about theory and principles. I agree with one of the other reviewers that this book is 20% principles and 80% "how-to." This book just screams practical.

In my opinion, anyone in business would do well to make Six Disciplines mandatory reading throughout their leadership team--and then add the "how-to" sections as action items on their meeting agendas. Even better: locate a top-notch consultant/facilitator to help stay on track re: following through on the action-items.

Reason: Like other reviewers have mentioned, reading this book and then following through on the action steps are two different things.

Perhaps it's best to consider Six Disciplines a workbook--and it's probably the best business-building workbook I've seen. In my opinion, many larger organizations would benefit from reading it, too. It's easy to read and it outlines of the key steps for success. No fluff. Just straight to the point, well-organized, and extremely practical.

Read it and you'll be enlightened.
Do what it says and you'll be moving your business from "surviving" to "thriving."

- Dan Bobinski
CEO / Director - The Center for Workplace Excellence

PS. Despite the similarities between the name of my business and the title of Gary Harpst's book, I've not met the man (as of this writing) and we have no affiliation. --But after reading his book it seems like he's certainly someone one would want to meet!