Dr. Jaques is re-writing our understanding of the human mind and how to use it best. Forget IQ, Meyers-Briggs, and the other flim-flam out there. This book offers us the hope that we can work to our potential without overload, balance our task output and spiritual needs at work, and organize our companies as effectively as possible, without sacrificing our humanity. So far every criticism I've seen leveled at Jaques has proven baseless. High level writing may put off some, but this is great research work.

This book presents the results of a three year study by Jaques and Cason, providing a major breakthrough in understanding human capability, intelligence, and development. An outcome of this study is further development of managerial practices to match people with roles and develop training and development programs. This is a highly interesting and informative volume that will be of significant value to all HR professionals whose agenda includes HRD and the cultivation of an organization's human capital. Reviewed by Gerry Stern, founder, Stern & Associates and HRconsultant.com InfoCenter.

The Fundation for understand Mental Processing Capability and Handling Complexity. Very simple and powerfull application in everyday situations. Like 'THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE' [Peter M. Senge] this is a great book about HUMAN PRESENT AND FUTURE possibilities ... JUST READ THIS!

Phenomenal -- it make take the society another 100 to 500 to grasp the ideas -- a quantum leap to a more humane world order if deduced to be applied in structuring the modern society and understanding of man.

If you want to destroy and demolish your company -- then you should avoid this book. Otherwise, if you actually care about your people, profits to go up, and a better and more effective business -- here is your beginner's guide to success.

This book presents a complete system for building and managing an organization structure that will endure. The basic idea is to create hierarchies by function. The characteristic distinguishing layer from layer in a hierarchy is the span of time over which planning takes place. Work is accomplished by managing the flow of processes across functional area hierarchies.

This all sounds great. Unfortunately, effectively managing cross-functional workflow in a requisite organization is extremely difficult and time-consuming. Since the attention of most people is on local optimization, and very few managers are up to the task of maintaining a global focus, functional-area hierarchies end up optimizing their local processes at the expense of global performance. Also, since this organization IS so enduring, it is extremely difficult to effect positive changes.

There are some interesting ideas in this book. However, the ultimate product is usually going to be an organization that self-reinforces suboptimal behavior. If you want a self-perpetuating organization rife with finger-pointing, political in-fighting, and deadlocked workflow... implement a requisite organization.

If you want a lean, mean organization in which ownership and accountability are tied directly to business goals and overall system performance is emphasized... look elsewhere. Start with "The Goal", "It's Not Luck", or "Critical Chain" by Eliyahu Goldratt. Also check out "The New Rational Manager" by Charles Kepner & Benjamin Tregoe, and "How Organizations Work" by Alan Brache; both are excellent.

The book is interesting, a follow on of General Theory of Bureaucracy and derived from Stratified Systems Theory. Its methods would probably only be used by companies who must (no other option) succeed in the long term...

We have many theories on strategy and complexity. But no understadings regards how these links to human capability. Jaques explains and shows how to connect complexity to human work. And his understanding of human work is particular and clarifying - human work has to do with uncertainty. People in a managerial hierarchies has to deal with different degrees of uncertainty and Jaques shows it in a very organized and deep way. I think that there nothing better than this available in all managerial books available. A classic.

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