Iterate: Run a Fast, Flexible, Focused Management Team

by Ed Muzio

Amazon Best Seller in TeamsAmazon Best Seller in ManagementAmazon Best Seller in LeadershipIterative Management Is Nimble ManagementThis book is a guide to the iterative organization, the only kind of organization that can learn and adapt fast enough to keep up in today’s world. For anyone running a team of managers, or advising someone who does, it describes the fundamental behaviors that create iteration, explains how to implement them, and includes videos and online assessment to get the process started. Iterate defines what management really is and helps readers create a fast, flexible, focused management team that does it well.Ed Muzio, award-winning author, CEO, and “one of the planet’s clearest thinkers on management practice,” provides a research-based blueprint for a management team that will take the next best step for the organization in any situation. This book enables senior leadership, front line and middle management, and human resource executives to equip their teams with both knowledge and practical skills so that they not only understand their own purpose but also perform that purpose well amidst ever-changing conditions. Iterate will help readers create measurable business results on any management team, of any size, in any industry where complex work and frequent change are the norm.

Genres: Leadership, Management, Nonfiction

263 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 9, 2018

About the author

Ed Muzio has been called “one of the planet’s clearest thinkers on management practice” by someone who would know: the editor of an international business magazine. He is CEO of Group Harmonics and author of award winning books including Iterate (an Inc.com original, 2018) and Make Work Great (McGraw-Hill, 2010), among others. His books have won Awards of Excellence from the International Society for Performance Improvement, a professional association that requires both a clear problem statement and a measurable result for organizational performance improvement.

Ed’s mantra is “Higher Output, Lower Stress, Sustainable Growth.” He is a leader in the application of analytical models to group and organizational effectiveness and output – including whole-group intervention, simulation, facilitation, and instructional design. Originally trained as an engineer, he has started organizations large and small, led global initiatives in technology development and employee recruitment, and published articles and refereed papers ranging from manufacturing strategy to the relationships between individual skills and output.

Ed's analytical approach to human productivity has been featured in national and international media, including CBS News, Fox Business News, and The New York Post; he has been a regular contributor to CBS, Monster.com, and The Huffington Post. With clients ranging from individual life coaches to the Fortune 500, he serves as an advisor and educator to professionals at all levels, all over the world.

Prior to founding Group Harmonics in 2004, Ed was President and Executive Director of a human services organization, and a leader, mentor, and technologist within Intel Corporation and the Sematech consortium. A Cornell University graduate, Ed's accomplishments include the creation and stewardship of a worldwide manufacturing infrastructure program, a nationally-recognized engineering development organization, and a non-profit residential services provider serving at-risk youth in his home town of Albuquerque, NM. Ed lives in Austin, TX with his wife and son.

Reviews

[Jim · Rating 4 out of 5]

I won this book on Goodreads. Iterate is geared towards running a management team. It is written for businesses that have already started and are showing some problems and how to re-evaluate the team and how to potentially fix the issues. I am a CEO/Executive Director of a new start up business and haven't yet opened our doors yet but intend to use the information here and put it to good use. There are some valuable topics discussed here, I especially liked the parts about conducting meetings and how to fix bad meetings. I have definitely seen in my past employment as a lower mid level manager how bad meetings cause cliques to form, make people feel disrespected, unheard and others to totally disengage and remain silent and even afraid to speak up. This is a high quality book, a worthwhile read!

[Mark Mathes · Rating 4 out of 5]

This may be among the next gen management books. Timely, ripped from the headlines. Conversational. Easy to scan with multiple entry points. Sidebars and supplemental information. Visuals, charts and infographics. Did I mention videos? Yes, "your copy of this book of this book includes prepaid access to a library of videos including...." Enter the membership model and subscription model of publishing. Multimedia, too, but that is a dated iteration. Depth here too, with Appendix 1 through 5, followed by Related Reading. All good reasons to recommend this book at the college level, B-school, first time manager, entrepreneur and mid-manager. Seniors too!

[Gary A. DePaul · Rating 5 out of 5]

Muzio writes an insightful manuscript about how management should work using iterative steps. The SVO concept is well worth learning. In addition to the book, Muzio offers 22 videos online and a self-assessment instrument that can be taken with your manager.

[Will · Rating 5 out of 5]

I won this book in a giveaway and thoroughly enjoyed it! The author offers practical, easy to implement strategies to manage your team efficiently and effectively. The book had many diagrams and examples that made it easy to understand. I would definitely recommend this book!

[anna]

dnf on page 5 lmao

[Jennifer Rivers · Rating 5 out of 5]

You can't bake a slice of pie without the others - we succeed or fail together. I am a production and engineering manager with 20 years management experience and have read piles and piles of management books. You are reading these reviews, so I bet you have too. You're asking yourself... is this one worth my time? I think it is. Why? In an easy to read, easy to follow, organized and entertaining way, Ed changed the way I was thinking about groups of leaders and management teams - helping me understand the critical dependencies BETWEEN teams and leaders in defining, continually adapting and achieving the overall goals of my organization. There's a super helpful section on Group Decision Making that really made me think about how my current system is working and not working. The systems he suggests are easy to implement in whole or in parts. I bet you'll get at least one good idea you'll want to implement right away.