Everything I know about effective management I learnt from Prince of Tennis

[petronia]

Peer-pressured into reading Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't - and I've gotta say, this book brings some real insights to the table regarding the success of the Seishun Gakuen junior high tennis team. (Suspect one could write a pretty good mgmt how-to book using only examples from Prince of Tennis. SHOUNEN JUMP: JAPAN INC.'S SECRET WEAPON???? ...Actually we knew that, didn't we.)

Sent out a bunch of holiday mail today. Most of you are going to get cards - in a lot of cases because it takes me geological eons to produce a mixtape or an FST, so I figured I'd send something while it was still seasonal. XD; Also I got ambitious and started doing this origami thing uhh well in any case you'll know when you see it. CDs went out to: beeblebabe, akatonbo, calintz, canis_m, and bladderwrack. There'll be another batch Monday or Tuesday.

The way it works is, there's no tracklisting in the package. XD So you get it, listen to it first without knowing what the songs are going to be, then let me know and I'll post the tracklisting here - along with the mp3s for mass consumption.

In other news (and to take a page from marej's book), the Internet as a whole is fired for not informing me that there's a Pantha Du Prince remix of Depeche Mode.

Comments

[one-if-by-land.livejournal.com]

this book brings some real insights to the table regarding the success of the Seishun Gakuen junior high tennis team

EXPOUND, PLEASE >:D >:D >:D

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I think it began with this paragraph (name omitted for our purposes):

_____ stands as a classic example of what we came to call a Level 5 leader - an individual who blends extreme personal humility with intense professional will. We found leaders of this type at the helm of every good-to-great company during the transition era. Like _____, they were self-effacing individuals who displayed the fierce resolve to do whatever needed to be done to make the company great.

Level 5 leaders channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company. It's not that Level 5 leaders have no ego or self-interest. Indeed, they are incredibly ambitious - but their ambition is first and foremost for the institution, not themselves.

It then goes on to talk about how Level 5 leaders choose their successors carefully in order to perpetuate the institution, whereas egocentric rock-star personality Level 4 leaders like to deliberately hamstring their potential successors and set them up for failure. And so on. XD

[akatonbo.livejournal.com]

Ooooh! *cheers* Wonder if it'll turn up while I'm out of town or wait for me to get back.

[worldserpent.livejournal.com]

(Suspect one could write a pretty good mgmt how-to book using only examples from Prince of Tennis. SHOUNEN JUMP: JAPAN INC.'S SECRET WEAPON???? ...Actually we knew that, didn't we.)

WOULD READ.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

You should look! I would think someone in Japan has already written something like this. XD

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

Muuuusics. :D

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I'm particularly proud of the packaging for yours. XD The actual content is merely what you asked for, though.

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

"Merely," sez you.