Churchill’s Adaptive Enterprise: Lessons for Business Today

Mark Kozak-Holland
Multi-Media Publications (2005)
ISBN 1895186196
Reviewed by William E. Cooper for Reader Views (6/06)

Mark Kozak-Holland has written one of the best and most fascinating management, leadership, and business books I’ve read.  As a retired Chief of Police with two graduate degrees, and one who teaches graduate school courses, as well as being the author of my own book “Leading Beyond Tradition,” I found this to be a “can’t put it down” book.  It is a literal page turner, comparing Winston Churchill’s incredibly complex set of problems at the outset of and during World War II with today’s management issues, then providing legitimate and very well thought out solutions.

It is about the tremendous change the world and our organizations are facing and the need for being agile and adapting to frequently changing conditions.  It is about getting the right people in, the wrong people out, and the right people in the right places.  It is about having a vision and a strategy for achieving it; it is about change management.  The examples used are incredibly profound and clearly applicable to today’s business needs and environment.  This book is a must-read and should not only be in every manager’s library, but should be a university text book and part of every library.  I strongly recommend Mr. Kozak-Holland’s book.  Well done sir.

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