I’m a risk book junkie.  I want to keep up and be employable.  So , I read about every risk book that’s published.  This my attempt to follow the excellent logic in The Reinventors by Jason Jennings.  Let me explain:

The premise of the book is that organizations must reinvent themselves or die.  Tough message for tough times.  By extension, all of us must reinvent ourselves to be employable.  Hence, my interest in reading every or most risk books.

Jason Jennings researched a lot of companies going through mega changes.  Some were successful.  Many were not such as Kodak, Blockbuster and others.  The reasons varied why they weren’t successful.  The reasons are familiar to all of us.  They didn’t accept change.  They stayed too long with legacy products.  They didn’t reinvent in the right growth sectors.  They did not execute appropriately.

There are a number of reasons why we recommend this book.  While we know many of the lessons learned in the book, they really bear repeating.  We or myself specifically tend to forget many common sense rules and examples.

Mr. Jennings offers practical tips and path to follow.  Let go of the past.  Pick a destination. Kiss a lot of frogs.  Who stays, leads or goes.  Get everyone on the same page.  Be frugal and lean.  Systematize everything.  Do and don’t hesitate.

Most importantly at the end of each chapter, he provides tips for an action plan.  Buy it.  Read it.  Apply it.

Bio:

Greg Hutchins PE and CERM (503.233.101 & GregH@QualityPlusEngineering.com)  is the founder of:

CERMAcademy.com
800Compete.com
QualityPlusEngineering.com
WorkingIt.com

He is the evangelist behind Future of Quality: Risk®.  He is currently working on the Future of Work and machine learning projects.

He is a frequent speaker and expert on Supply Chain Risk Management and cyber security.  His current books available on all platform are shown below: