Managing Sideways: Using The Rummler-Brache Process Improvement Approach to Achieve Performance Breakthrough by Price Pritchett

by Price Pritchett

Managing Sideways provides managers with 10 steps for dramatically improving the process through which the company develops products and serves its customers. "Faster-better-cheaper" is a moving target, and the only way the company has a chance of achieving this corporate triple-play is through continued process improvement. This quick-read handbook will change the way every executive views managing the organization as a whole. It will provide the 90 degree shift in mindset managers need to create a lean, elegant, efficient process environment that works. Managing Sideways offers a blueprint for becoming the "alpha company" in your marketplace.

Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

Reviews

[Todd Buegler · Rating 4 out of 5]

This short little book (literally read it in about 30-45 minutes, and that's with taking notes) has a great deal of wisdom to share about process versus people. In the new world in which we live, more attention needs to be paid to process than to people. If process is tended well, people are set free to do their best work.

The two down-sides of this book are:
1. It's short. I'd like more. It felt more like a brochure for his ideas. And;
2. The last page was "if you'd like to learn more, turn the page..." and when you did it was an ad for his workshops. While I'm certain these are probably great, I'd like more in the book. (It's not like the book, which is only 40 pages long was cheap!)

But good stuff in here that makes me want to go deeper.