I was not able to download. Given the amount of time available, I was thinking that I will have enough time.

Boosting your company's performance cannot just be achieved by throwing money at it, even though capital is relatively cheap and available. Instead it can come by having a great, focussed, empowered and talented team working in unison.

This book tries to turn around common thinking, offering a mix of practical and theoretical advice to great effect, by leveraging collective, quality actions. The authors consider what can slow a company down, as well as what demotivates and disincentives its employees, before offering a simple framework about how things can (or should) be changed. Ideas about implementation fall, however, still to the individual company and its component employees.

There is the potential for this to be beneficial to companies of all shapes and sizes and even, with a bit of work, it could even give some great advice for changing one's own personal life too.

It is a book that requires focus, but the effort can be latterly rewarded in spades. It is quite accessible and readable, despite giving a lot of thought-provoking and demanding ideas to the reader. It is a book you want to reserve "quiet time" for to get the most out of it.

Time, Talent, Energy: Overcome Organizational Drag and Unleash Your Team’s Productive Power, written by Michael C. Mankins & Eric Garton and published by Harvard Business Review Press. ISBN 9781633691766. YYYY

Excellent advice for minimizing the organizational drag!
Great book with practical advice and recent research to develop solutions in organizations, so that they can implement their productive power and become a more competitive company. A few years ago a new perspective on company success has been emerging and the focus is now on staff as human capital, where it is intended that investing in its development will result in economic gains and benefits for the organization. That is why it is vital that they have a context and a culture of work that is adequate for them to give their best, to compromise and to put their talents at the service of the company, to be effective, efficient and motivated to invest their time, knowledge and skills. The authors provide valuable information to identify the causes that hamper the productive advance and diminish the performance of both the staff and the organization's operating model. Also, through examples, they give details for managers to implement actions and how to achieve the transformation of the company to minimize and manage the organizational drag.
It is admirable the extensive work and the quality of the information that in this book put at our disposal and benefit.
My gratitude to the Publisher and NetGalley for allowing me to review the book

This book focused on helping organisations/businesses/leaders manage time, talent and resources with the same care applied to managing financial capital.

There are a number of practical advices given. My attention was drawn to the '3 ways to simplify your operating model'. I read that part repeatedly as it brings to light the complexity involved in making simple decisions.

The writers also made a point of demonstrating how assembling the right people for a task yields more output and productivity than just merely putting random people together.

Rating: 3.5/5

Favourite quote: "The real challenge isn’t to restructure existing units; it’s to identify the minimum number of units required to accomplish the essential work of the company.

This book was pretty good. It reinforced the concept that it's the basic stuff (time, talent, and energy) is the most important stuff. That is that the stuff that really matters. Sadly, these are the 3 things that businesses take for granted.

This book helps reminds them of that.

Time, Talent, Energy by Michael C. Mankins; Eric Garton is an inspiring as well as informative read.
It starts with the idea that in today's funding rich world, an organisation needs to take a good look at how its time is spent and how to gain it back from the bottomless meetings that drain it. How to rely on A player teams when it comes to business critical projects that will pave way for you organisation's jump to the next level. How engagement is very important, so your employees bring their best self to the organization and feel empowered.
I found the talent chapter most inspiring with how a new model of Boeing was done within 5 years, how an A team in the race car world can slash the pit time down to half.
there's a reference to another book Founder's Mentality - which I liked and the usual formula of supporting your arguments with studies, graphs and good visual aids of what are good leadership traits.