Comments on: It’s the performance, or, what every manager should know about Bob Mager

By: Communications Forum

Communications Forum — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:50:55 +0000

I’ve never read this book but with all these comments and recommendations, I’ll be sure the check it out. Thanks for sharing.

By: Susan Guest

Susan Guest — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 21:04:53 +0000

Dave,

It is great to see someone talking about Mager’s work. I always recommend his books to people starting in our field. I appreciated Mager in grad school – he was so pithy and memorable.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:43:30 +0000

Awesome, Dave. I found my last copy of What Every Manager Should Know the other day. I used to keep 4 of them to lend out. Looks like the other three never found their way back. That’s ok with me:)

I agree about Gilbert’s tome. My copy never leaves the security of my own library (lest my post-it bookmarks and notes be gone forever:))

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:34:29 +0000

Jean:

Thanks for the link. The PDF was just to let people know people know the document was in PDF format, not a web page. Now I’ve got evidence that approach wasn’t clear, so I’ll go revise the note.

By: Jean Marrapodi

Jean Marrapodi — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:04:45 +0000

Mager absolutely made enormous impact in our field. His stuff should be part of every trainer’s repetoire. One correction to your post that I suspect is a helpful Spellchecker’s contribution and not yours: ISPI’s model is HPT,not PDF. Here’s a link for those who may not know it: http://www.ispi.org/content.aspx?id=54. A diagram of the model is linked there.