By Michael Kanazawa

Just yesterday I received an email from our publisher that our first book review on BIG Ideas to BIG Results had come in. As I clicked the email link to read the review I felt like Charlie as he unwrapped that last chocolate bar, hoping so much to see the golden ticket enclosed. But for me the golden ticket would be positive words, encouragements, and appreciation for the book. We got it!

Now I know it is just the first one and there may be others that aren’t so golden. But it’s great to start with a check in the win column for sure and coming from the main source that people in the publishing world read, that means a lot to me. Here is the review…

Publisher’s Weekly: January 28, 2008

Big Ideas to Big Results: Remake and Recharge Your Company, Fast
Michael T Kanazawa and Robert H. Miles. Pearson/FTPress, $27.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-13-234478-4.

“It takes more than a vision to launch a successful corporate strategy. It takes engagement on the part of employees at all levels. Establishing such engagement is at the heart of this punchy, dynamic book by Kanazawa and Miles—the CEO and chairman, respectively, of DisseroPartners, a strategic advisory firm. Fewer than half of employees, according to a quoted poll, understand their company’s strategic goals and only 43% think there is ever any follow-through on planned strategy shifts. This is why, the authors assert, so many corporate initiatives fail. After seeing the process break down countless times, Kanazawa and Miles developed a step-by-step guide to harnessing the energy that companies usually waste when introducing initiatives. By creating more of a “buy-in” throughout the organization and ensuring execution through accountability, employees become committed to company goals, they claim. Their clear and hands-on approach is useful for anyone whose livelihood is tied to the successful execution of business initiatives. (Mar.)”

As a second set of wins for us, I think we also may have the only book that has received advance praise from CEO’s of F500 companies, CFOs, executives of operations, HR, marketing, IT, and strategy, Harvard Business School professors, and private equity investors, including a partner at Kleiner Perkins Kaufiled and Byers. It demonstrates that we have a book that will help you make money, grow your business, is academically sound, operationally practical, and good for start ups and large companies alike.

Bob and I are very excited about the launch of the new book and hope you can share in that with us by following along and contributing to this blog and of course…here comes the shameless plug… buy the book. It is available now for pre-purchase on Amazon and B&N and will be shipping in February. Also, if you would like a signed book with an additional video, still at a discounted price, we have an exclusive special with 800CEORead (ask for Jon Mueller at 800-CEO-READ), and orders must be for multiple books and completed before Feb 19, 2008.

Michael Kanazawa: chief executive of Dissero Partners, co-author of BIG Ideas to BIG Results
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