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| Author: Ken Blanchard
Publisher: William Morrow
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Rating:  108 reviews
Sales Rank: 8135
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.9
ISBN: 068815428X
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.314
EAN: 9780688154288
Publication Date: October 8, 1997
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| Customer Reviews:
 Simple ideas to motivate your people October 19, 2003
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
This book is easy to read and offers wholesome useful advice to those who want to motivate others. Having read all the best-selling business and self help books, I believe we have to incorporate Optimal Thinking into corporate culture, and hire and retain people who can make the commitment to be their best regardless of the circumstances. So I recommend Optimal Thinking--How To Be Your Best Self along with this book.
Wonderful! September 29, 2000
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
A great book! The authors tell a story (as they do in the other two books in the series) to illustrate how people will work together. Because it is a story, I don't want to spoil the plot by giving away too much. But the basic story is that there are lessons about how humans should interact with each other to get work done, and they come from behavior exhibited by animals. The ideas are very simple, but sometimes the simplest and best ideas are the most elusive. I laughed out loud a couple of times while reading this book, and I felt great empathy for the characters in the book (based on real people, the names changed to allow them to remain anonymous). In the book, it is revealed that the term Gung Ho is Chinese for "working together", which is where the title comes from.I was so intrigued and pulled into the story that I couldn't put the book down. I read it in one sitting. Plan to have several hours of free time when you start it. :-)
Bowles lives up to the Gung Ho! principles June 24, 1998
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I must admit, I was at first a bit skeptical of this title's "Native American wisdom" -- talk about squirrels and geese . . . however, because co-author Sheldon Bowles unselfishly provided guidance to us as we edited our own book, "Bubba on Business" (also available at Amazon.com), I forged ahead. What I found was an amazingly practical book, filled not with vague "principles" but solid, actionable ideas. In our consulting business, we have found no better articulation of these straightforward ideas than Blanchard and Bowles' Gung Ho! Watch out, though -- if you apply Gung Ho's learnings, it will change your business and your personal life. Kudos from someone who's a fairly skeptical reader of so-called leadership books. This one's not on the top shelf with my "show off" titles, but down where I can reach it again and again. It's really worth buying.
Gung Ho August 3, 2001
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
Excellent book that was an easy and quick read. The ideas behind Gung Ho! are as old as time, as they say. However, together the three basic principles the book espouses can be implemented at home or at work. The one point that really hit home for me is how much praise plays into the equation for success and successful organizations. Most American companies are better at finding ways to criticize employees' performance vs. looking at ways to acknowledge their accomplishments and actions. I think business assumes that people are self-motivating and that praise is a corny approach to managing human capital. I for one do not subscribe to that mindset. If you are in management, or hope one day to join the management ranks, this book supplies the management 101 guide you need.
Gung Ho!! A great motivator December 12, 2001
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
After reading the book Gung Ho I have found myself not only looking at my job in a different way, but also my everyday life. I am a 22 year old production worker and after reading this book my foreman wanted to read it. As of today it has been passed along from me to my foreman, our supervisor,plant manager,and even to our company president. All that have read it now agree with me this is the most inspirational book we have ever read. It has made such an impact on all of us that my company is now starting to incorporate many of the things in the book into our workplace. If you want to motivate yourself or someone else just read the book. It will have nothing but positive affects.
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