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Beached Whale: Learning to Swim in the New Ocean
Companies and the leaders within them struggle to achieve results.
With the advances in technology companies are either running successfully into this new world, or failing to keep up. Is your company beached? Stranded on the sands of past success? Slow and steady no longer wins the race.
Beached Whale will equip you to evaluate if your company has become beached. Do you have a coordinated enterprise company, or do you have a company mired down in bureaucracy? You could be a Beached Whale company. There is only one way to find out.
With the advances in technology companies are either running successfully into this new world, or failing to keep up. Is your company beached? Stranded on the sands of past success? Slow and steady no longer wins the race.
Beached Whale will equip you to evaluate if your company has become beached. Do you have a coordinated enterprise company, or do you have a company mired down in bureaucracy? You could be a Beached Whale company. There is only one way to find out.
- GenresSelf Help
192 pages, Paperback
Published February 1, 2017
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6 people want to read
About the author
Daren Martin
24 books7 followersDr. Daren Martin provides strategic insights to companies which empower them to Create an Epic Culture, Bust Silos, and Attract and Retain Top Talent.
Dr. Martin's thought leadership and change strategies in transforming companies earned him the title The Culture Architect. He acts as a Trusted Advisor and Executive Coach to business leaders at companies ranging from Fortune 500 to small businesses.
He is the CEO & Founder of The Global Company Culture Association, a Global Keynote Speaker, and Author. His WSJ and USA Today Bestselling book “A Company of Owners” has sparked positive change at companies around the world and has been called "Best book since Good to Great".
He resides in New Orleans.
Dr. Martin's thought leadership and change strategies in transforming companies earned him the title The Culture Architect. He acts as a Trusted Advisor and Executive Coach to business leaders at companies ranging from Fortune 500 to small businesses.
He is the CEO & Founder of The Global Company Culture Association, a Global Keynote Speaker, and Author. His WSJ and USA Today Bestselling book “A Company of Owners” has sparked positive change at companies around the world and has been called "Best book since Good to Great".
He resides in New Orleans.
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November 12, 2017
Here, the author quoted an example of a whale stuck on the beach. It is so gigantic in size nothing can be done. Slowly, it will die. Same way the author has talked about corporate giants like blue whales who don't understand that they are beached and they would end up dying slowly. The author has shows ways to identify a beached company and how to unbeach them.
I got "Beached Whale" and "The Sink" in one mail from the author - Daren Martin in the exchange of the honest review. I accepted both books but didn't download that time. I completely forgot about books after that. Last week, while checking emails I found the mail and instantly downloaded book to Kindle app. I finished both books within an hour. Yes, both books in an hour because both are just hardly 20-30 pages long. The author knew how to make self-help books interesting. He kept interest intact until last paragraph.
Detailed Review Link - http://chevusread.blogspot.in/2017/11...
I got "Beached Whale" and "The Sink" in one mail from the author - Daren Martin in the exchange of the honest review. I accepted both books but didn't download that time. I completely forgot about books after that. Last week, while checking emails I found the mail and instantly downloaded book to Kindle app. I finished both books within an hour. Yes, both books in an hour because both are just hardly 20-30 pages long. The author knew how to make self-help books interesting. He kept interest intact until last paragraph.
Detailed Review Link - http://chevusread.blogspot.in/2017/11...
April 17, 2021
This is a great reading not just for business people, managers or owners of any size businesses. Anyone spending time in any kind of job would benefit of this book in realizing if they are in a beached organization or not; if they push the scale against success or if they are a factor to succed.
Easy to understand structure and great examples!
Easy to understand structure and great examples!
July 2, 2017
Extended PowerPoint style, fast read
The theory of beached whales mets Dilbert in a fast paced dissertation of an expert consultant fishing for his next client.
The theory of beached whales mets Dilbert in a fast paced dissertation of an expert consultant fishing for his next client.
May 11, 2017
In this book, the author shows us the way that companies should function. He advises that everyone, every employ are a part of something, we have to see them as a group, not as individuals.
It was very interesting to read that the companies should function differently in today’s world. They have to incorporate a bunch of new concepts like social media. In this way, facebook and youtube, for example, are tools for work.
Full review:
http://semtudo.pt/2017/05/11/beachedw...
It was very interesting to read that the companies should function differently in today’s world. They have to incorporate a bunch of new concepts like social media. In this way, facebook and youtube, for example, are tools for work.
Full review:
http://semtudo.pt/2017/05/11/beachedw...
August 31, 2020
A short visual, business book. Insightful.
April 12, 2017
I just finished reading this book, but I'm not really happy after reading it. I liked the book cover and the description. I thought I was going to learn what makes big companies fail and how to survive failure and it should have done that!!
I also know that the writer has a great knowledge and experience but I didn't learn anything from this book. I read 192 pages that were too long to read and too short to learn anything, And it was full of illustrations.
Illustrations were cute and funny but I felt I was reading a book for children not a book for students or people who want to be leaders.
If you are one of the people who enjoy reading small books that contain small pieces of advice and quotes you will enjoy this book. If you're like me who loves to go deep in every situation and every piece of advice you're going to feel that you're wasting your time.
I also know that the writer has a great knowledge and experience but I didn't learn anything from this book. I read 192 pages that were too long to read and too short to learn anything, And it was full of illustrations.
Illustrations were cute and funny but I felt I was reading a book for children not a book for students or people who want to be leaders.
If you are one of the people who enjoy reading small books that contain small pieces of advice and quotes you will enjoy this book. If you're like me who loves to go deep in every situation and every piece of advice you're going to feel that you're wasting your time.
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