Be The Boss Your Employees Deserve by Ken Lloyd is a solid guide to giving one's employees the best, and getting the best from them in return. From building trust and confidence in one's leadership; to handling problem employees efficiently; and checking up on one's own performance, Be The Boss Your Employees Deserve is a practical, useful, "reader friendly" and strongly recommended guide to supervisory management success.

Now that Lloyd has written this book, I hope he will consider writing a book in which he explains "how to be the employee your boss deserves." He writes with uncommon clarity and assuredly has much of value to say about that subject as well. Especially today, everyone involved in a given organization must embrace change, build respect and trust, create and then sustain a "winning atmosphere," prepare for tomorrow, and maximize everyone's potential. In my review of Serven's The End of Office Politics as Usual, I observed that it is no coincidence that the companies which are most highly admired, which generate the greatest number of applicants from among those who work for their competitors, are also the most profitable. One of several reasons is that companies which are both admirable and prosperous have zero-tolerance of what is generally referred to as "office politics." Presumably Lloyd agrees that employees not only need but deserve a supervisor (I personally dislike the term "boss") who simply will not tolerate inappropriate behavior by anyone. Period.

The information and suggestions which Lloyd provides in this book are obviously based on an abundance of real-world experience. He carefully organizes his excellent material within five Sections:

Building the Foundation

Key Concepts and Practices

Everyday Roles and Responsibilities

It's the People

Passing the Tests

Much of my time is involved with the accelerated development of what are sometimes referred to as "fast track" executives. (I refer to them as "tigers" and "tigresses.") Also, I continue to be retained to work with CEOs and their management teams. I presume to include this personal information to make a point: Even decision-makers at the highest organizational levels need frequent reminders of management principles which they may perhaps view as "basic," "obvious," or "simplistic." They need to re-read Lloyd's book at least every 90 days. (NOTE: In the final chapter, Lloyd provides a lengthy series of "Self-Assessment Questions." In the strongest terms possible, I urge supervisors at all organizational levels to answer each of these questions with total frankness and then review their answers on a regular basis.) My own experience supports all of Lloyd's key points. What he does not state but implies throughout his book is that the most effective male supervisors are gentlemen; the most effective female supervisors are ladies. For whatever reasons, civility is among the most important yet least discussed qualities of great leadership.

Think about it. Over the years, which relatives, neighbors, teachers, coaches, clergy, "bosses," and others with whom you have been associated do you now respect most? My guess (only a guess) is that they were those who believed in you and in the potentiality of your abilities, set high standards, then held you fully accountable to those standards, who had what Hemingway once described as a "built-in shock-proof crap detector," cheered you on, provided crisp but fair discipline when you needed it, and -- in all other respects -- did everything possible to nourish your personal growth.

Now there is a role model worthy of emulation!

Finally, a book that honestly identifies and analyzes that prolific workplace species - the jerk. Organized by situation and topic, Jerks at Work presents the answers to at least 200 jerk-related questions from real-life readers that were originally published in author Ken Lloyd's syndicated On the Job column. The book is psychologically sound, excruciatingly direct, extremely funny and, above all, actually helpful. Lloyd does a splendid job of covering all the bases and every kind of jerk, from the boardroom to the mailroom. We [...] highly recommend this book to everyone, because every company has at least one jerk.

I heard about this book on Dr. Laura's radio program. I bought it on her recommendation. It is everything she said. Not only is it informative, but it is also a "fun read". I know that I can already use several points in dealing with some of the "jerks" in my office. I highly recommend this book.

This is perfect book for dealing with those not so great co-workers. I truly enjoyed the entire book. I recommend this book to all of my friends. I also enjoy reading Ken's column in the Daily News. Ken has done it again!

This book contains a lot of good ideas but is extremely repetitive in portions. The authors take an idea and beat it to death. In between they give numerous examples of how they made their "clients" sucessful with each idea...in short every chapter contains a plug for their consulting practice. I guess this is the price you pay for the few ideas you get.

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It is sad to see how people can continue to defend the Hollywood Communists who were very influential from the 30's to the 50's and maintian high regard even today. This is like honoring Nazis. Yes, it was and is legal to be a Communist, and so with the Nazis. They took orders from Moscow and held to the party line. They defended the Soviets as they murdered millions of people, invaded country after country, imprisoned and tortured people in the gulags, and prevented people from exercising freedom of thought. The Hollywood Communists defended all this and claimed to defend American freedoms. This book does a good job of exposing much of their hypocrisies. He made of excellent use of newly available Soviet archival sources. I wish he would have added more biographical postscripts, but it is a good start.

Mr. Segaloff's review above will give you some idea of how this book hits its targets squarely. Segaloff invokes the usual buzz words "witch hunters," "self hating judaism" (an especially offensive choice, given Stalin's anti-semitism), but does not address specific charges.

Mr. Billingsley shows pretty clearly that Communists in Hollywood did have a subtle influence on films and that it had a profound influence on the mind-sets of writers, directors, and actors of the time. One need only read Albert Maltz's articles from "The New Masses," reprinted in the appendix of Mr. Billingsley's book, to see how much influence the Party had. When you read how the second article, a recanting of the first, came about, you'll be appalled.

An attentive editor would have removed some repitition and some sloppy writing. Otherwise, this would have merited 5 stars.

We have been educated in the myth. During that reign of terror known as the McCarthy era, congressional witch-hunts of Hollywood led to blacklisting that shattered the lives of thousands of innocents.

A recent book, "Hollywood Party," is an effective antidote to the prevailing Leftist version of what happened 50 years ago. Author Kenneth Billingsley details the Communist-Hollywood connection.

Lenin himself recognized the power of cinema, saying "Communists must always consider that of all the arts the motion picture is the most important." His successor Stalin viewed film as "not only a vital agitprop device for the education and political indoctrination of the workers, but also a fluent channel through which to reach the minds and shape the desires of people everywhere."

Communist infiltration of the American motion picture industry began in the trade unions. Expanding into the ranks of actors, writers, directors and producers wasn't terribly difficult. One writer for the Communist Daily Worker claimed that the established view among party leaders was that 99 percent of movie people were "political morons." Judging by the antics of today's Hollywood personalities, that figure hasn't improved.

During the 1930s Communist opposition to the Nazi threat attracted substantial support from film stars and other influential folks from Hollywood. They ignored the obvious similarities between these two faces of Leftism - the mass murders and torture, the secret police, the suppression of the most basic rights, the intimidation, the focus on government rather than the individual, the total ignoring of man's spiritual side - and contributed their fame, money and time to Communist front organizations.

Red influence in Hollywood was pervasive. One former Communist screenwriter noted that there were a number of "awful writers" who managed to get jobs only because they belonged to the party.

For many Hollywood luminaries, anyone who opposed Hitler was their friend. Being a Communist was considered the same as being a Republican or Democrat or Prohibitionist or Vegetarian. It was simply a matter of which party you felt best represented your interests.

The problem with that theory is that Communism was never just another political party; it was the only one directed from a foreign country. It was the only one that would have shredded the Constitution and immersed the U.S. into the subhuman slavery of totalitarian terror. It was the only one that considered Stalin, who made Hitler look like a piker when it came to slaughter, a god.

Of course, not everyone joined the party or one of its many fronts purely for philosophical reasons. One actor told a potential recruit that "you will make out more with the dames" if he'd sign up. So he did.

Throughout the 30s many in Hollywood, encouraged by comrades, agitated for America to assume an active role in crushing Nazism. Rallies, ad campaigns and fundraisers were held. America had a moral obligation to get involved.

All of that changed immediately in 1939 when Hitler and Stalin joined in a pact. Now, the party line was that the U.S. had no business in interfering with the internal affairs of other sovereign nations. President Roosevelt was denounced as a warmonger.

Even some of the dimmest bulbs started figuring it out when the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League transitioned into the Hollywood League for Democratic Action overnight. All they were saying, is give peace a chance.

Less than two years later, when the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, it was back to Plan A. Lurching back and forth didn't present any difficulty for the true believer. The party always knew what was best and no independent judgement was needed.

Penetration of the film industry was sometimes subtle. One Red screenwriter and instructor counseled his students to get just five minutes worth of party propaganda in each film. Try to get the message across in dialogue from one of the major stars. This would make it less likely to be edited out of the movie.

Sometimes the penetration wasn't subtle. Producer Hal Wallis, learning of an intended anti-Communist film, said not to even bother. The party would toss stink bombs into any theater attempting to show it. Rumors were started about actors who opposed the party. They'd be portrayed as pro-Nazi, knowing that Jewish producers would not be inclined to hire them.

Controversy surrounded the honoring of director Elia Kazan at this year's Academy Awards. Kazan had done the unthinkable. He'd actually named names.

His wife, Molly, has written about what many in Hollywood still characterize as witch-hunts: "Those witches did not exist. Communists do. Here, and everywhere in the world. It's a false parallel. The phrase would indicate that there are no Communists in the government, none in the trade unions, none in the press, none in the arts, none sending money from Hollywood to Twelfth Street. No one who was in the Party and left uses that phrase. They know better."

Readers of "Hollywood Party" will know better, too.

It did take me a couple tries to get through this book, but it was worth it. This commentary has everything I looked for. It explained the book in its historical context as well as its spiritual and contemporary importance. Some of the writing is a bit bombastic and difficult to wade through, but I learned a lot from it.

Hubbard's commentary is in-depth and accurate. He quotes the New King James Version but corrects mistakes such as Proverbs 30.1 where he correctly states that "Ithiel and Ucal" should be tranlated as phrases rather than names. Amazon's catalog lists the release date as January 1991 but the copyright in the book is 1989 (it came out initially as paperback which is now out of print). Biblical archaelogy and scholarship has made significant progress in the last 10 years. For a more up-to-date in-depth commentary on Proverbs read THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE BOOK OF PROVERBS by Cody Jones. It features numerous drawings and photos which give the reader a sense of the culture of the time. Six translations in parallel aid understanding of more difficult passages. Jones reveals for the first time in any commentary the secret identity of the overall editor of King Solomon's wise and witty sayings.

It gives a good grasp on the old testament period between the first deportation and the second deportation of Isreal to Babylon. It gives a good understanding of the people and culture at that time.