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A review by topdragon
Winnie-The-Pooh on Management: In Which a Very Important Bear and His Friends Are Introduced to a Very... by Roger E. Allen
4.0
As a devotee of Winnie-the-Pooh, philosopher extraordinaire, I had to pick this one up. I expected the Pooh parts to be “Pooh-like” and that turned out to be the case. The author does a great job at writing Pooh (and Piglet, Tigger, and Eeyor, etc.) in their AA Milne voices and includes a fair amount of flashbacks right from the original stories to illustrate his management points. But I was pleasantly surprised to discover that this book has some honestly good management advice.
The advice is of the very basic variety but, really, that’s the best kind. Basically it covers 6 major themes on what makes a good manager. As Pooh would say, ‘It covers the How’s, not just the What’s. And the How’s are harder.’
I could see this book being on the shelf of both the 21 year old part-time employee with JC Penney’s who is bucking for a promotion into the management ranks someday as well as on the shelf of a Fortune 500 CEO. Simple, straightforward management concepts are tried and true and Pooh Bear makes a great way to get the points across.
A fun and entertaining read.
The advice is of the very basic variety but, really, that’s the best kind. Basically it covers 6 major themes on what makes a good manager. As Pooh would say, ‘It covers the How’s, not just the What’s. And the How’s are harder.’
I could see this book being on the shelf of both the 21 year old part-time employee with JC Penney’s who is bucking for a promotion into the management ranks someday as well as on the shelf of a Fortune 500 CEO. Simple, straightforward management concepts are tried and true and Pooh Bear makes a great way to get the points across.
A fun and entertaining read.