| Flight of the Buffalo |  | Author: James A. Belasco
Publisher: Audio Literature
Category: Book
Buy New: $28.95
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Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 524800
Media: Audio Cassette
Number Of Items: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.3 x 1
ISBN: 1558007733
Dewey Decimal Number: 658
EAN: 9781558007734
ASIN: 1558007733
Publication Date: May 1993
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Product Description
The author of Teaching the Elephant to Dance delivers a revolutionary model of "employee leadership" essential to American corporations in the decade ahead. 2 cassettes.
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 Great Performance - The Best Biz Book! November 16, 2008
Kristine Barr (Cincinnati, OH)
I have read more than 200 business books and this is one of my top 3 favorites! "Flight" teaches leaders how to build strong teams by not being their hero. "Flight" teaches people how not to be victims and leaders how to recognize & handle victimitis. "Flight" makes one think about what's great performance in the eyes of the customer. It's a book about problem identification, solution implementation, finanical awareness, leadership, ownership, and where each of us can be part of the problem (and resolution).
I use this book in my consulting & coaching practice. An entire management reads the book and we discuss a few chapters together a week. It's become a safe third-party place to openly talk about what's happening in our company...and to get answers to "If we didn't do it this way, how else would we do it." I've taken more than 200 people through this book and while in the beginning no one is really excited about required reading homework, in the end, everyone has said it's one of the strongest pieces of how we build the team and the strategic plan. A Texas client even gave me a leather jacket with buffalos on it to thank me for introducing it to them.
Thank you John Lybarger for giving me my first copy and reading it with me.
Get the book. Read it. And live by it.
Flight of the Buffalo: Soaring to Excellence, Learning to Let Employees Lead October 31, 2008
M. McCullough (Mundelein, IL)
As a small business owner with 16 employees, I've read dozens of books over the years pertaining to employee management. This book just resonated with me. The authors explain how to motivate employees by empowering them in the decison making process, but without all the trendy buzz-words. The techniques are really just common sense. Although the authors ran multi-million dollar corporations, I found that, with a little creativity, I could relate their techniques to my small medical practice fairly easily, .
Although the book is rather old, the material is timeless.
A buffalo is too heavy to fly, first redistribute the weight... August 9, 2008
A. Panda (Guadalajara, Mexico)
This book reads like a novel on leadership with the authors as the main characters. Therefore it is very easy to read and understand. The authors transmit their knowledge based on illustrative examples of their experiences in different companies. The best part is the authors' passion about the subject, they really make you want to start immediately to apply their concepts. I just wished it was easier to put into practice.
This book makes a lot of emphasis in the learning organization, which I also found useful. I have seen that at the beginning, people feel you are imposing an additional obligation to their work but then it turns out to be fun, then after some time, they get tired again. The maintenance of such practices as well as keeping motivation high is the most difficult part of leadership.
Buffalo writers share real stories and lessons learned February 10, 2008
Sally Witzky (Chesterfield, VA USA)
This book was recommended to me by Jim, a successful businessman I met on an airplane early in 2007. He said it was the best business advice book he had ever read. So I put it on my wish list and never thought too much about it until December when I was ordering several books to read for the start of the new year. I wasn't sure I would like the book -- it was written in 1993 and I wondered if the content was still current. Jim was right and I have to concur that this is one of the best business and practical leadership advice books I've ever read, and I'm an avid reader of leadership and management books.
This isn't a book that I just read -- this one I studied with pen in hand: I underlined important points I want to remember and use and made plenty of notes in the margins so it has become more of workbook for me. I remember a few years ago that a small business owner said to me that "I wish someone would write a book that would tell me all the mistakes they made so I wouldn't have to learn them on my own." This is that book.
In each of the 43 chapters, the authors are open and honest, to the point of showing their vulnerability as leaders, with the lessons they learned while trying to do everything themselves rather than allowing the employees to lead. They share real life stories to make their points but just enough detail for you to not get lost in the story. Each chapter has an organized flow for quick reading.
It's easy for those of us who are business leaders to allow our egos to get in the way of empowering people to allow them to tap into their full potential and not only accept, but willing take responsibility for the growth of the company. As author John Maxwell says, "the highest calling of any leader is to develop other leaders." And the authors of Flight of the Buffalo show just how important that is, admitting their mistakes and showing practical advice of the lessons learned along the way, either in their own companies or with other companies for which they consulted, with questions we can ask ourselves to apply the lesson to our own situation. The questions alone are worth the price of the book and more.
Some topics I found particularly interesting were the discussion in chapter 15 about incremental thinking being an American disease, or the sheer dogged focus on the customer that is weaved throughout the book, and certainly the summary toward the end of how the authors focus their organizations around being obsessed with learning at a fast pace, and why that is so incredibly important.
If you already have developed an organization where people are fully empowered, then this book is less for you. But if you struggle even the slightest bit in getting people to take on more responsibility and initiative, then you have to read this book. But be ready to look in the mirror because much of the lessons point to how the leaders of the organization must think and act differently in order to maximize people's potential, and the potential growth of the organization.
Excellent for managers February 17, 2007
Larry Klutzke
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I assigned this as required reading for a group of my managers. It is a very good resource for me and for them.
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