Good read about good management and our first comment!

I was going to wait until SIU was back in session for fall semester before writing much more about it, but here is another thought about management.

If you want to be a good manager, one way to approach it is to read about it. The best book about improving an organization IMHO is "Good to Great" by Collins (hit the title for this post to see what Amazon says about it and by a copy to help support the Saluki Swim team). A huge industry has sprung up over the last 20 years selling business knowledge to managers and owners. If you own or manage people you owe it to yourself to read this book.

I have been playing with buying 20 or 30 copies of "Good to Great" and handing them out to the SIU Board of Trusties and the administrators. The problem is that I'm fairly sure that none of them would read it. We can tell by the actions of SIU management that no one has read this book and understands the message.

I assumed that 3 or 4 people reading the blog, but someone was kind enough to send a comment today. It is a fact that there is at least one reader of this blog. A red letter day in the history of the blog.