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CONTACT:
Elizabeth Bacher
Dearborn Trade
155 North Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60606-1719
Telephone: (800) 621-9621
Email: bacher@dearborn.com
Web site: www.redzonemanagement.com
Red Zone Management… a top pick of 2001
The CEO Refresher recently released their list of the best books
of 2001 as rated by their editors. Red Zone Management: Changing
the Rules for Pivotal Times by Dutch Holland, Ph.D. was
among their top picks of business books for the year. Their
criteria for top business reads included “creative leadership,
mindfulness, relevance, unique insight, actionable...and [books]
with a little 'head twisting' thrown in for good measure to
challenge you to greatness.”
Red Zone Management: Changing the Rules for Pivotal Times
is focused on helping organizations and leaders maneuver through
Business Red Zones. In football, the Red Zone is the last 20
yards on the way to a touchdown - a "make it or break it"
time for a team. In business, Red Zones are those critical times
when companies face opportunities for a great gain or a great
loss. To navigate through Red Zones, such as strategy changes,
mergers, and e-implementations, companies must shift to a new
way of managing. The regular rules no longer apply. More information
on Red Zone Management Principles plus reviews of the book are
available at www.redzonemanagement.com.
Red Zone Management was released November 2001 by Dearborn
Trade, a Kaplan Professional Company. It has been featured on
Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge website (http://hbswk.hbs.edu),
thestreet.com and cio.com.
It is currently available in bookstores and online at Amazon
and Barnes & Noble.
The CEO Refresher also reviewed Dutch’s last book, Change
is the Rule: Practical Actions for Change: On Target, On Time
and On Budget. In this review, the CEO Refresher editors
noted that “Change is the Rule" expands on
the metaphor of the organization as a theatre company - and
it is brilliant! It's brilliant because it simplifies understanding
- it reduces the complexities of organization change to common
sense with a very clear 'picture' to relate to. It is a very
powerful metaphor that is very easily understood and 'got' by
almost anyone who has ever been to any type of theatre presentation.“
Dutch Holland, Ph.D. is CEO and founder of Holland & Davis,
LLC. He has worked as a management consultant since the 1970’s,
leading change initiatives in many Fortune 500 companies in
a variety of industries. Dr. Holland was an advisor on industrial
innovation to the President and the Secretary of Commerce. Dutch
is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences
and has taught in executive programs at Rice University, the
University of Houston, The University of Texas, and the Wharton
School’s Securities Institute.
Dutch co-authored The Change Management Toolkit for Reengineering
(WorthingBrighton Press, 1995), Millennium Management
(WinHope Press, 1999) and authored Change is the Rule (Dearborn
Press, 2000) and Red Zone Management: Changing the Rules
for Pivotal Times (Dearborn Trade Press, November 2001).
He has published over 50 articles in publications such as
Software Strategies, Business Horizons, Knowledge Management
Review, Knowledge Management Magazine, Journal of Petroleum
Technology, Academy of Management Journal and Journal of Applied
Psychology.
The CEO Refresher is published by Refresher Publications
Inc., a privately held corporation in Toronto, Canada. The CEO
Refresher is meant to serve as a significant source of content
for business leaders and can be found online at www.refresher.com
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ADDITIONAL CONTACT:
Tara Wilson
Holland & Davis, LLC
1600 Marathon Oil Tower
5555 San Felipe
Houston, TX 77056
Phone: 713-877-8130
Email: twilson@hdinc.com
Website: www.redzonemanagement.com, www.hdinc.com
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