Background
Douglas K. Smith was born in 1949.
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
Yale University where Douglas K. Smith received a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
Harvard Law School where Douglas K. Smith obtained a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree.
(The book tells how one of America's leading corporations ...)
The book tells how one of America's leading corporations invented the technology for one of the fastest-growing products of recent times, then miscalculated and mishandled the opportunity to fully exploit it.
https://www.amazon.com/Fumbling-Future-Invented-Personal-Computer/dp/1583482660/?tag=2022091-20
1988
(The book is about the definitive work on how to create hi...)
The book is about the definitive work on how to create high-performance teams in any organization.
https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Teams-Creating-High-Performance-Organization/dp/1633691063/?tag=2022091-20
1993
(Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith explore the often counte...)
Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith explore the often counter-intuitive features that make up high-performing teams, such as selecting team members for skill, not compatibility, and explain how managers can set specific goals to foster team development.
https://www.amazon.com/Discipline-Harvard-Business-Review-Classics/dp/1422179753/?tag=2022091-20
1993
(The book provides the diagnostic tools managers need to a...)
The book provides the diagnostic tools managers need to assess their particular needs for change, and then the tool kit required to implement the changes one wants to see.
https://www.amazon.com/Taking-Charge-Change-Principles-Performance/dp/0201916045/?tag=2022091-20
1996
("Performance begins with focusing on outcomes instead of ...)
"Performance begins with focusing on outcomes instead of activities. In my experience, most people in most organizations most of the time do the reverse. They concentrate their efforts on the pursuit of activities instead of outcomes. As a result, they rarely set or achieve performance results that matter."
https://www.amazon.com/Make-Success-Measurable-Mindbook-Workbook-Setting/dp/0471295590/?tag=2022091-20
1999
(The book covers the achievement tests used in educational...)
The book covers the achievement tests used in educational planning, transitional programming for students with disabilities, and career/vocational planning-including the major individually administered tests.
https://www.amazon.com/Essentials-Individual-Achievement-Assessment-Psychological/dp/0471324329/?tag=2022091-20
2001
(In the book examining old values that can still work with...)
In the book examining old values that can still work without imposing ideologies from a mythical past, the author explores bringing value and values back together in organizations, markets, networks, and people's lives.
https://www.amazon.com/Value-Values-Thinking-Differently-About/dp/146203957X/?tag=2022091-20
2004
Douglas K. Smith was born in 1949.
Douglas K. Smith received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University. It was followed by a Doctor of Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School.
During the late 1980s and 1990s, Douglas K. Smith became what some called a “change guru.” His first published book, co-authored with two colleagues in 1988, was entitled ‘Psychological Testing and Assessment: An Introduction to Tests and Measurement’, and his second, co-authored with Robert C. Alexander and published at the end of the same year, was ‘Fumbling the Future: The Story of Xerox and Personal Computing’. Smith’s expertise was beginning to become apparent: a thorough knowledge of the empirical basis of psychological assessment, combined with an appreciation of the importance of individuals to changing businesses.
That success was followed by a 1993 volume ‘The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization’, another co-written venture, which called for team management even at top levels. Perhaps having sufficiently demonstrated his own skill at working in teams, Smith then went on to a solo writing project ‘Taking Charge of Change: 10 Principles for Managing People and Performance’, published in 1996. Operating from a concern for specifics, he enumerated ten “rules” to getting people to change. These books have been followed by a number of other publications related to the topic during the subsequent years.
Smith has worked as a leader of McKinsey and Company. He has touched nonprofit, profit, and government sectors of such areas like technology, education, public policy, media, consumer products, energy, and industrial manufacturing. He was among the founders of the Princeton Projection Organizational Citizenship, and took part at the creation of many leadership programs and organizational transformations, like NeighborWorks Achieving Excellence.
Nowadays, Douglas K. Smith serves as a Chairman of the Board of the Rapid Results Institute, Inc.
(Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith explore the often counte...)
1993(In the book examining old values that can still work with...)
2004(The book tells how one of America's leading corporations ...)
1988(The book covers the achievement tests used in educational...)
2001(The book provides the diagnostic tools managers need to a...)
1996(The book is about the definitive work on how to create hi...)
1993("Performance begins with focusing on outcomes instead of ...)
1999