Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This book is exactly why such a high percentage of people are unhappy at work and ultimately leave corporate America. It rings a bit like EST which ATT upgraded to use as their training for their salespeople's selling mindset back in the day. The ideas here are not for a small business unless you want your employees to think you've lost your mind. The NUMBER ONE point this book does not deal with directly to bosses and owners is that the problems in a business are ALWAYS from the top down. This is especially true when the owner/boss is a micro-manager, which ironically, is what a lot of the book tasks feel like (micromanagement). If I hear the word "rocks" to describe "bite-size goals" one more time I'll kill myself. How about simply letting technology track this for you by having a project manager with project management software manage the goals? Then tech people who don't want to waste time sitting in meetings talking about "their rocks" can actually be working on the project goals and signing them off in the software. Only a man would think of this term. This book is only useful for owners to read and implement on themselves and NO ONE ELSE. If they followed traction and let project managers manage projects this book might hold value, esp if it keeps the owner away from interfering with the employee's work. It also doesn't appeal to how women manage their time and achieve goals. It's very male-centric, which a lot of startups are ...