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BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY

THE NEW WHY TEAMS DON'T WORK
the award winning book about how to work together better

TRANSCOMPETITION
dealing with bullies in the workplace

WHY CHANGE DOESN'T WORK
what keeps the fads-of-the-month from catching fire

TECHNO-CRAZED
how to make peace with desktop technology

ASK TECHNO ANSWER MAN
absurd columns about computers and stuff

NONFICTION

MIKE'S GREATEST HITS ... 20 favorite essays
THE DOMINANT DOG ... dealing with an overbearing pet
POODLEVANIA ... a dog's life
GOOD SOAP ... a history of freaks
TAKE ME OUT OF THE 
BALL GAME
.... baseball stories
FATHER DAYS ...stuff about dads
THE OFFSET REVOLUTION ... my life as a writer
 
essays
I Met Charles Manson
Liz Taylor's Brain
Couvade and the Cloud of Unknowing
Bing Cherries
Empty Spaces: Remembering Paul Gruchow
Mike's Greatest Hits

FICTION

THE MEGAPODE

POETRY

LOOKING FOR CHINA, collected poems
WORK SONGS 
WATER HILLS free
THE MOVIE UNDER THE BLINDFOLD free
HOME TREES free
LUCKY YOU free
THALIDOMIDE DREAMS, free
UNIVERSITY AVENUE free
FAREWELL TO THE CURTIS HOTEL free
other poems & essays

CHILDRENS


THE GOOD KING
Seven read-aloud stories for children in one cover.
The Tooth Fairy
NONFICTION
THE DOMINANT DOG
POODLEVANIA
GOOD SOAP
TAKE ME OUT OF THE BALL GAME
FATHER DAYS
essays

BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY

TRANSCOMPETITION
TECHNO-CRAZED
THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS LAPTOP FOR A CAT
other titles

FREE  

FICTION

THE MEGAPODE

POETRY

LOOKING FOR CHINA
THALIDOMIDE DREAMS
WATER HILLS
THE MOVIE UNDER THE BLINDFOLD
HOME TREES
WORK SONGS
UNIVERSITY AVENUE
FAREWELL TO THE THE CURTIS HOTEL
other poems & essays
 

POEMS
WANTED
 

CHILDRENS

A FRANKENSTEIN CHRISTMAS
other childrens titles
 

 

 
 

Business Books by Michael Finley and Harvey Robbins

The New WHY TEAMS DON'T WORK
What Goes Wrong and How to Make It Right

a fully revised second edition of this award-winning classic
by Harvey Robbins and Michael Finley
Paperback

"The American business approach to workplace teams is filled with powerful subtleties and is also quite different from the Japanese. The phrase, "How come all this quality stuff don't work," nicely sums up the challenge making teams work in America. Authors Robbins and Finley present practical solutions to the problems with and misconceptions about teams that will be valuable to any organization inclined to assign teams to work on legitimate operational issues. Pragmatic team tips covered here include team decision-making, communication skills with teams, reward and recognition ideas, the importance of effective team leadership, and the fundamental factor of organizational culture that could help or hinder team success. The authors swap narration of chapters, enlivening this useful handbook on how to make the commitment to teams a success. Serves well any manager's interest in maximizing productivity and quality improvement with teams. Recommended for all quality professionals." -- Quality World

Winner, Financial Times/Booz Allen & Hamilton Global Business Book Award, Best Management Book - The Americas, 1995
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TRANSCOMPETITION

A BUSINESS WEEK BOOK

[IMAGE] Transcompetition:
Moving Beyond Competition and Collaboration

by Harvey Robbins and Michael Finley

"Absolutely necessary reading before any other management book. This book will save readers many years of wasted effort. It will save some companies from extinction. That's an ROI I strongly recommend." ... (Stewart Saxe, Baker & McKenzie)  


Why Change Doesn't Work
Why Initiatives Go Wrong and How to Try Again-And Succeed

Harvey Robbins and Michael Finley
Hardcover
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"This is the first treatise on change we've seen that is actually entertaining. The authors cover human and organizational barriers to change and change theories, and then take a tour of management theory that's guaranteed to upset every reader at one point or another." -- HR ONLINE Table of contents and sample chapters of this book...


ISBN: 1560799447 
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[IMAGE]Now in AUDIO format!

THE NEW WHY TEAMS DON'T WORK
What Goes Wrong and How to Make It Right
Harvey Robbins, Michael Finley
Audio Cassette
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TECHNO-CRAZED, by Michael FinleyMake payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!

"Finley examines the issues of 'computer mania' with clarity, comedy, and comradeship, making us feel that normalcy is within reach. I highly recommend this book to every compulsive computer user -- and to anyone who knows one." -- Steve Deyo
Michael Finley

Paperback
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from Texere in the UK

WHY TEAMS DON'T WORK, out of print for a year, has been reissued in a special revised edition by Texere of the UK. 

 


A UK edition of WHY CHANGE DOESN'T WORK  -- the same great book, only in English!

The edition features unique International prefaces written by Harvey and me. The paperback editions, with new material by me and Harvey, are especially beautiful.

UK audio edition: Why Teams Don't Work (audio cassette, Pounds 11.68)



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