Book recommendation: Get It!

A colleague of mine -- a senior consultant & trainer with the Coast Guard -- recommended a beaut of a book to me. I thought I'd pass the information on. The book is Get It, Set It, Move It, Prove It: 60 Ways To Get Real Results In Your Organization by Mark Graham Brown. Brown is a consultant and has written a number of books about management systems.

About Get It, Set It, Move It, the publisher notes

If you seek to produce measurable results in your organization, this book is for you. It provides practical and useful methods that you can use immediately and points out habits you should avoid. Get It, Set It, Move It, Prove It is about getting real results and being able to prove them.

The distinct feature of this book is the four-phased model: "Get It" focuses on your leadership's vision and values; "Set It" improves your goals and strategies and their deployment in regard to ethics and regulatory requirements and performance measurement; "Move It" strengthens your relationships with important customers and the management of employees and key work processes; and "Prove It" helps you supply the evidence that your systems are producing high-performance results.

Said a reviewer at Amazon,

I recently heard Mark Graham Brown speak at a conference and thought he was fantastic. I started reading his new book Get it, Set it, Move it, Prove it and it is a great read. For those of you who are looking into performance management, this book is insightful, humourous and to the point. From hearing Mark speak and reading his book I've come to expect a certain standard and he more than exceeds it in this book. Not only can you relate to the stories and experiences in the book, it makes you think about your organization, what kind of things to avoid and how to better manage your organization's performance.

I, too, have heard Brown; he's an excellent speaker, and this little book is a keeper. The text is available from Amazon, of course, but there's little or no discount from the retail price. And, yes, at $19.95 it's a bit pricey for a 205 page paperback, but the content is worth the money, particularly in the light of this semester's class (and our current HRD project).