Subir Chowdhury
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Subir Chowdhury is executive vice president of the American Supplier Institute.
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- Verk
- 14
- Medlemmar
- 289
- Popularitet
- #80,898
- Betyg
- 3.0
- Recensioner
- 5
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- 44
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Bottom Line Up Front: absurdly simple business "advice" book that despite being quite short, is overly long and full of narcissistic anecdotes. And sadly, undermining narcissism...pretty much every decent (and other) point has an accompanying I-love-me-I-was-awesome story. It's tedious.
From the text and subtext, the author appears to be the greatest consultant in the history of business management consulting, saving companies $500 million here, $500 million there, $200 million there, glorious accolades...but I'd never heard of him before this book. Here's a baffling question: how, in a modern world, can there be a company with such revenue and such unfathomably poor business practices that a consultant can find half a billion dollars of inefficiency savings??!! Moreover, how can there be more than one such company??!!
The basic premise that small things (dropping a toothpick on the ground instead of throwing it away) can make a difference has merit, but I take issue with an alarmist sky-is-falling announcement that such is indicative of a systemic problem. It might well be. Or it might not be. I also am not overly fond of cute backronyms: STAR is the star of this little book and stands for Being Straightforward, Being Thoughtful, Being Accountable, Having Resolve. All oddly illustrated with seemingly contrived situations and generous narcissistic non sequitur anecdotes offered as support.
The stories are a bit much. And Mr. Chowdhury comes off as a but much as well.
But...even the lightest of books has some kind of takeaway and the subtitle is the best part of this one: When Good Enough Is Not Enough. (My copy...the title of this Goodreads entry of this still unpublished book has the contraction.) Unfortunately, the author didn't really pursue that well in this book.… (mer)