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BOSS
21 Simple Rules to Make Your Business Grow and Keep Your People Happy
Tim and Dana Frazier
Rancher Oscar Thompson, who worked cattle near Hebbronville,
Texas, was ready to trust his son, Webster, with the family business.
By lantern light, he scribbled twenty-one simple rules for the boy to
follow when he took over as boss to a team of ten cowboys the next
morning, driving twenty-five hundred head of cattle to market. These
salient pieces of management advice, written in the 1880s, are as
useful for managers today as they were then.
Now, consulting team Tim and Dana Frazier build upon these bits
of wisdom and bring them to modern business. Adding their own
insights from successful careers in healthcare and medical staffing as
well as planning and project management in the paper and plastics
industry, the authors creatively partner the historical with the modern-
day application of each instruction. The result is Boss: 21 Simple
Rules to Make Your Business Grow and Keep Your People Happy.
These uncomplicated, timeless rules, written more than a hundred
years ago, remain as applicable today in a downtown high-rise as
they once were on a lonely Texas prairie. For example:
* Obey orders from your boss—he is paying you for your service.
* Look after the comfort of your men and they will follow you.
* Keep your mind on your business.
* Make your head save your heels.
* Be ready to go at all times.
Managing people is perhaps the biggest challenge in business. In
fact, manager-employee relations are often cited as the leading factor
in determining success or failure in a project. It takes a wise boss to
lead his or her people toward getting the job done, keeping them
happy and productive while they are at it. So throw your hat back, put
your boots up, and take a little practical advice from a team of
veteran managers from past and present who know a thing or two
about team building and taking products to market.
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TIM FRAZIER has worked in logistics and planning for more than
twenty years. His wife DANA FRAZIER, a registered nurse for
twenty-two years, is a manager in the health care industry. Together
they have over forty years of management experience. They live in
Houston, Texas.
What people are saying about this book
"The Fraziers' advice can best be described as commonsensical,
intuitive,and practical. Managers who will enjoy advice books will chow
down on BOSS, sampling of these tender morsels. . . . BOSS is an
engaging bookthat fits into the genre of management advice books
sold in general andairport bookstores. Happy trails."—EH.Net, the
Internet research anddiscussion list serving economic historians
"BOSS outlines 21 of the most important rules for managing people.
The cowboy parables bring the rules to life as you laugh and cry. It's
a must read for anyone giving directions to others."—Mark Boyd, CEO
and President, Control Solutions Inc., Pasadena, Texas
"Business is always looking to New York tycoons or sports legends
for new metaphors on how to manage. It's refreshing—and
enlightening—to look to the Old West and those who were responsible
for real journeys for straightforward advice on leading a team."—Rebecca
Wettemann, Vice President, Nucleus Research, Boston, Massachusetts
"A pleasure to read, BOSS is chock full of sage advice and lessons.
The rules back then are still the rules today. Every organization needs
focused leadership with grit, courage and determination to get to the
railhead, the summit and the bottom line. BOSS explains with clear
examples how to get there."—Kelly Kincannon, President and CEO
Kincannon & Reed International Executive Search, Food, Agribusiness
and Life Sciences
Featured in the Houston Business Journal
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