Richard Katz is a faculty member at State University of New York at Stony Brook. He was educated at Columbia College and Northwestern University Medical School. His first novel, Edward Maret, was published and won the ASA Literary Prize in 2001. He is currently at work on this third novel, which will be a sequel to Surgical Risk.

Richard Kurtz is a surgeon with a few hidden talents, like knowing how to take care of himself in a threatening situation. He has a practice in New York, enjoys the good living in a luxury apartment on the East Side, and has a girlfriend named Kathy, who is writing her dissertation making connections between t.s. elliott's Wasteland and J.R.R. Tolkien's Mordor. Kathy is intelligent, good-looking, and is somewhat of an intellectual snob.

Kurtz harbors regrets about a relationship has had with Sharon Lee. When she is murdered while taking a nap in a break room at the hospital, Kurtz's own sense of duty leads him into a semi-partnership with Detective Barent, especially after a robbery and more bodies begin showing up after they've chosen a schizophrenic suspect who is locked up on the psych ward:

"'We have a problem,' Barent said. He stopped, frowned down at his desk and swirled his cup of coffee with one hand. 'Harry and I are no longer as certain as we were that Bill Mose is the one who murdered Sharon Lee.' 'Really...' Kurtz sat up straight in his chair. 'That's a surprise.' Barent morosely nodded. 'Two nights after she was killed, Sharon Lee's apartment was robbed. All of her jewelry was stolen.'"

Robert Katz knows his way around a hospital. He also knows how to weave a complicated plot line with an excellent setting (New York); criminals and bodies popping out in all directions; and a doctor who is a hero and doesn't even know it. Kurtz can get himself out of a desperate predicament as ably as Indiana Jones, and his exploits are certainly as interesting. Katz leads the reader around by the nose, and who is the culprit is anyone's guess. Katz employees a dispassionate and clinical tone in describing all sorts of patient pathology, and pokes holes in the reader's notion of glamour in the medical profession. Surgical Risk doesn't disappoint.

Shelley Glodowski
Senior Reviewer

Surgical Risk is a well written mystery novel set in New York City. Robert Katz's novel keeps the reader turning the pages, with an ending that is a complete surprise. Each chapter keeps the reader guessing on who could have done it. As a health care professional it was interesting and enjoyable to read a mystery novel set in a medical setting. I highly recommend this novel to everyone, and I look forward to the sequel.

Healthcare is in a state of rapid change both clinically and economically. In order to stay current and up-to-date in the business of your medical practice, I recommend reading, "The Physician's Survival Guide to the Business of Medicine, by Robert Katz, CPA. I have read the book and have significantly decreased my account receivables, increased my collections and even increased the number of new patients after implementing Mr. Katz's production and bonus program. This is a must read for every physician that has any concerns about the economics of health care. Dr. Neil Baum Author of "Marketing Your Clinical Practice-Ethically, Effectively, and Economically" and Take Charge of Your Medical Practice-Practical Practice Management For the Managed Care Market"

A great book about a 40-ish couple who decided against grinding the corporate life out for another 20 years, instead choosing to sell everything off, buy a used camper van in England, and travel the back roads of Europe and the Mid-East, as perpetual tourists or gypsies. That first winter was spent on a farm in Greece, whose front yard had the only grape-stamping vat for miles around, where vineyard neighbors came to stamp their grapes into wine, paying for the use of it with crates of vegetables and many liters of new wine. These and other great adventures are the fabric of learning to live in a new culture and making what others spend in two weeks last for an entire year. At another point they buy a used boat, fix it up and travel the rivers and canals of France. They also give many useful pointers about where and where not to camp, where to park in cities with the least hassles, etc. Frankly, I love this book; I've read it over 1/2 dozen times or so, and it's great fun each time I do. In fact, as soon as I finish this review, I think I'll go read it again.

This handbook is concerned with clinical practis of audiology. It provides a through revision for basic audiological evaluation procedures such as audiometry & impeancemetry. Special test battery , Central auditory testing, Evoked response audiometry and auditory rehabilation measures including hearing aids and assistive lesitining devices all have been disscused in very comperhensive and fruitfull manner. However its chapters concerned with Otoacoustic emissions and cochlear implantations - in my point of view - are insuffecient and in need for more deepinig. It is an important text for every audiologist

Robert L. Katz was Assistant Professor at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College, when this article was published in the September-October 1974 issue of the Harvard Business Review. Later he taught at Harvard Business School and Stanford University, wrote several textbooks, and helped found various companies.

"It is the purpose of this article to suggest what may be a more useful approach to the selection and development of administration." This approach focuses on what effective administrators do (the skills for carrying out their jobs) and not on what good executives are (traits and characteristics). "A skill implies an ability which can be developed, not necessarily inborn, and which is manifested in performance, not merely in potential." Katz argues that effective administration rests on three basic skills: (1) Technical skill, which involves specialized knowledge, analytical ability within that specialty, and facility in the use of the tools and techniques of the specific discipline.; (2) Human skill is the executive's ability to work effectively as a group member and to build cooperative effort within the team he leads. This has more recently become known as emotional intelligence or EQ (See Daniel Goleman's 'Emotional Intelligence', 1995).; and (3) Conceptual skill involves the ability to see the enterprise as a whole. The author discusses the relative importance of each of these skills on the different levels within organizations. On the basis of his findings, Katz also discusses the implications for action, for executive development, for executive placement, and executive selection. "It is undoubtedly true that certain people, naturally or innately, possed greater aptitude or ability in certain skills." But Katz's skills-based approach means that we should be able to improve our administrative effectiveness. He provides insights how to development all three skills.

This article is a true Harvard Business Review Classic. It is still very valid, even after all those years. Perhaps the language is now somewhat outdated, but Katz provides some great insights into the different requirements of effective leaders and managers. Great recommendation for people entering the management field, such as MBA-students, but also human resources departments. The authors uses simple US-English.

This is must reading for all individuals who want to develop sound financial habits. While many of us know where we want to go, this practical book guides us on the journey for financial success and provides us the Biblical basis for that journey. Regardless of your religious preference, this book will serve as a road map to achieve whatever you want if you are willing to be disciplined in your pursuit. If I had to suggest two books on personal financial managment, I would recommend buying Money Came By The House The Other Day and reading it twice! Dr. Neil Baum, M.D. New Orleans, Louisiana

This book was read through in two sittings. The first read was to get a feel for what the author had to say about financial planning. The second was to see if the Biblical foundations were really there. I couldn't have been more impressed. This book is solid and sound on both fronts. Anyone looking for a nuts-and-bolts approach to getting their financial act together need not look elsewhere. This book has all you need to identify your area(s) of concern and get the information required to get your boat afloat and the wind in your sails. God's message to those willing to listen is ever-present and sound. You cannot come away from reading this book without realizing that the author is truly dedicated to helping his fellow man -- through sound financial direction with an eye focused on God's message Christians everywhere.

This is an outstanding book, a must read for every Christian and Non-Christian who is serious about getting their finances under control. The earlier in life a person reads this book the better they will understand the statement. "Where Did The Money Go"

The Katz and Kahn classic provides readers with an in-depth look at the systems, and modalities prevalent in organizations. It provides a clear map of the impact organizations have on their people, and consequently the impact the people have on the organization. Of particular usefulness were the chapters on power and authority, and role behaviors. While the perfect organization may never exist, Katz and Kahn have gone a long way towards giving their readers a better way of asking the right questions of organizations. Many of their points are germane not only in the era during which it was written, but will become more critical to e-commerce businesses as they realize that there is business to conduct after the initial honeymoon with the product.

I first read The Social Psychology of Oganizations, by Katz & Kahn, in Spring 1973, as a required reading for Organization Theories Core Course at New York University, Wagner Graduate School Of Public Administration. Based upon my readings and use of this text book for both academic and later business research, I strongly believe that this structurally detailed, powerful and insightful book is a required core, basic studies reading for High School, College, University, Graduate Students and Post Graduate Studies.
The Key Stone to this book is the concept of the Ying, Yang, the polarized interaction,interrelationship(s) of both the Formal and the Informal Organizations within both Public and Private Economy Sector Organizations.
"The formal Goals of the Formal Organization are not necessarily those of the Informal Organization and vice a versa."
This landmark research work by Katz & Kahan, greatly enhances, sensitizes and helps the reader to conceptually organize, catalogue organizations and individuals by both types of organizational hierarchy and types of individuals' characterietics, so that we may more easily deal with both Formal and Informal Organizations and Individuals in a smoother, more rational, less emotional manner.
I teach an Executive Project Managment course in both the Public and Private sectors of the Economy. When teaching Project Management to the US Department of Defense, the US Navy, NAVSEA, I have always recommended the supplemental research use of The Social Psychology of Organizations by Daniel Kats, Robert Louis Kahn, as I do when teaching and consulting within the private sector of the economy.
Katz & Kahan's, The Social Psychology of Organizations, provides the reader with a rich, detailed, structured framework,indeed a structured compartmentalized baseline, against which we can compare multiple types of diversified organizations and multiple types of diversified individuals, as we meet them throughout the lifetime course our public and private lives.
Since a corporation is indeed a Formal Organization, and the corporation is a "Living Entity", then this work allows the reader to understand the diversified (sometimes disfunctional) personalities of the Formal Organization vs. the Informal Organization, corporate culture as they relate to us as the individual having to work and live wihtin their corporate contexts, paramaters and according to their unique set of corporate cultural rules and their respective formal and informal regulations.
From a Psychological perspective, The Social Psychology of Organizations by Katz & Kahan, both fore-warns and fore-arms individuals vis a vis their interactions and inter-relationships with, within large corporations, large social structures and one on one with individuals.
What a true treasure-trove of organizational knowledge, behavior, insights this organizational research really is. This is a timeless piece of organizational research work, as relevent today in 2002, as it was in 1968, 1973 and will be in 2013 and on.
Thank you for the opportunity to review thie fine piece of work.

Clearly the bible of organizational psychology

A classic tale of revenge updated for tomorrow. Edward Maret moves quickly enough to entertain, yet pauses briefly to consider ethical issues, some timeless, and others which are just now appearing on the horizon. Fun to read; interesting to ponder.

Robert Katz's EDWARD MARET touches all the bases: cyborgs, aliens, cyberspace, Thomas Aquinas, DNA, trips across the galaxy, political intrigue, betrayal, love, and more. And Katz serves it up in a snappily written, evocative style, plangent with memorable images, details, and metaphor. Katz is an author to watch; meanwhile, enjoy his debut novel.

Katz has written a great book. It is a true science fiction adventure with incredibly well-drawn characters and worlds that you will remember long after you finish. It conjures up Herbert, Heinlein, plus has a modern SF tone and style to it. A must-read for anyone who enjoys a well-written, entertaining book filled with interesting ideas.

This book is a must to have in your resources for a parent or those who work with kids. My daycare children LOVE the activities that have come from this book! Believe me, it will keep them busy for a while!

Our school has an annual family math & science night where classrooms have age-appropriate activities for kids & families to do together. This book is laid out so well it was easy to present them in a class. Am buying a copy for our school!

An enjoyable book, nicely illustrated, which gives concise and interesting insights into some of the topics that exercised Americans in the 1920s and early 1930s: immigration, political radicalism, prohibition, crime and delinquent social behavior, the debate between creationism and science, and so on. I would have welcomed, in one or two chapters, slightly more detail from the trials themselves, and sometimes the overall historical context is a little thinly sketched. However, this is popular history, not some bone-dry academic thesis, and it works very well at that level.

This book manages to stay lively while giving both the social and historical context and details of the trials themselves. The narrative is informed but not ponderous, in fact, at times it almost conversational in tone. The trials selected encompass a broad array of issues from those times, ranging from sports scandles to organized crime to military heroes to xenophobia to science and creation. Each entry is long enough to give the reader a real good feel for the issues surrounding the case, but short enough to keep the pacing fast and enjoyable. I recommend it highly.