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Swanson's Unwritten Rules of Management
Apparently, some people have been struggling to find original (and complete) copies of Swanson's controversial Unwritten Rules of Management. (One of the Personal MBA books.) As such, I have included it below.
Sixty years before Raytheon CEO William Swanson published his Swanson's Unwritten Rules of Management, a UCLA engineering professor, published a book called The Unwritten Laws of Engineering. More than half of the rules in Swanson's book were completely plagiarized.
Putting those facts aside, the information provided is still chalk full of management goodness.
- Learn to say "I don't know." If used when appropriate, it will be used often.
How many times have you been in meeting with someone who felt compelled to contribute even though her or she obviously did not know what to say? Silence is golden in these circumstances
Trend: Educational Entrepreneurism and the Personal MBA
If you haven't heard of Josh Kaufman's Personal MBA Program, then you've already missed the boat on the emerging trend of educational entrepreneurism. The Personal MBA is a collection of books that can increase your knowledge of business with a fraction of the cost of a full blown MBA, "all without setting foot inside a classroom".
Josh, after being motivated by marketing guru Seth Godin, created a manifesto detailing some 42 books and periodicals. He claims that by investing time and effort in using these resources, once can progressively develop a greater understanding of business and increase your effectiveness at work.
