This page, by design, is more than a favorite links page. 

I’d prefer that you to think of it as: Insights to Excellence.  I’m frequently asked to provide a short list of key resources and references that nourish the excellence mindset.  This is that list.  Following are people, websites, and published works in management and safety that contribute to the quest for safety excellence. 

PROJECT 

Tom Jadin of Shiocton, WI.  Tom works in a Mental Health Institute, and is the best there is on the critical subject of managing personal and organizational stress in life and in the workplace.  I’d sum up his style up as George Carlin, without the10 words you can’t say on TV.

The Active Agenda Project www.ActiveAgenda.net --Definitely visit this unique project site. Active Agenda is an 80 Module (and growing) automated Risk Management Operating System created with ‘Open Source’ technology, and hence available FREE under reciprocal license agreement to practioners in the safety and risk management community. With this robust software you can automate, track and measure just about any aspect of the risk management process.
 

WEBSITES  

The Center for Servant Leadership.  Effective leadership truly is bass-ackwards in comparison to efficient management.  Robert Greenleaf inspirationally calls the difference "servant leadership."  This site contains a wealth of information and resources on this powerful concept and approach.  www.greenleaf.org

University of Alabama College of Continuing Studies.  The College has developed a strong online curriculum of safety and health subject matter, most offerings of which are relevant to attaining the CSP designation, and provide credits for maintaining continuance of certification.
www.bama.ua.edu/~deip

Brent Hubby and his organization PDP Inc. (Professional Dynametrics Programs Inc.).  Brent and his organization truly bring a unique perspective and product set to excellence management.  PDP provides a solution to the toughest most important challenge facing organizations today: selecting, managing, keeping and growing the right people.  www.pdpnet.com

Fast Company. This is one of the few magazines that truly understands the challenges of today’s business environment, and offers good answers!
www.fastcompany.com

Professional Safety (The Journal of the American Society of Safety Engineers) is without doubt the voice of the profession.  www.asse.org

Steve Minter and the Occupational Hazards crew of Penton truly understand safety excellence and capture its essence in print better than anyone else.  Their Champions of Safety program showcases the best of the profession.
www.occupationalhazards.com

The Best Manufacturing Practices Center of Excellence site, created in partnership by the Office of Navel Research’s BMP program, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Export Administration, and the University of Maryland’s Engineering Research Center.  There are some big names posted here, definitely worth a browse now and then to keep a finger on the pulse of new BP ideas and activities.  www.bmpcoe.org
 

PUBLISHED WORKS 

Values-Driven Safety by Don Eckenfelder, Government Institutes Press, ISBN 0-86587-5324 (especially pages 239 and 266) .   Don is a close friend, a true thought leader of the profession and author of a book well ahead of its time.  This is definitely is a cover to cover read…twice!

The NIOSH Worker Health Chartbook.   All the facts you ever wanted to know…and more.  Available from NIOSH Publications; 4676 Columbus Parkway, Cincinnati, Ohio 45526-1998; 1-800-NIOSH; E-mail: pubstaff@cde.gov.

Analyzing Performance Problems, or You Really Oughta Wanna, by Robert F. Mager and Peter Pile, ISBN 1-879-618-17-6; This book really makes complex systematic problem solving really simple.  You even get a handy dandy flow chart.

Instant Management—The Best Ideas From the People Who Have Made a Difference in How We Manage, by Carol Kennedy, William Morrow & Co. Press, ISBN 0-688-11950-6.  My guess is that most managers haven’t read this book…but should!  Who says there is no such thing as a quick fix?

Reengineering Management:  The Mandate for new Leadership, by James Champy, Harper Business Books, ISBN 0-88730-796-5.  In this book, James Champy, coauthor with Michael Hammer of Reengineering the Corporation suggests they missed something in their original work…what’s inside the boxes (leadership).

The Intuitive Manager, by Roy Rowan, Little, Brown & Co, Canada Ltd.  ISBN 0-316-75974-0.   This book makes a compelling case for the highly overlooked and often underestimated role of gut instinct in business success.  This book is fun, interesting, and as far as I’m concerned, right on the money.

The Maverick Mindset, by Doug Hall, Simon & Schuster NY, ISBN 0-684-82701-8.  A must read for anyone contemplating contra thinking, revolution, and change leadership in a business organization.  It provides insight about making change and provides a bold caution about the risks.

A Whack on the Side of the Head, by Roger von Oech, Warner Books, ISBN 0-446-39-1584.  In my opinion, this is the head waters work on creativity, the core ingredient of excellence in anything and everything.

The Fifth Discipline and The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, by Peter Senge, Doubleday Publishing, ISBN 0-385-47256-0.  These are the ultimate ‘How to’ books about the right stuff…becoming a learning organization.

Out of the Crisis, by W. Edwards Deming, MIT Press, ISBN 0262541157.  This is his classic work, but my advice is to read everything he’s ever written, and everything written about him.  Deming is the most insightful individual about what business management should be, but isn’t.

The American Samurai, A Warrior for the Coming Dark Ages of American Business, by William Lareau.  Warner Books, ISBN 0446393606.  This and the many other titles he’s written send a compelling wake-up call to American business about quality, excellence, and the need for change in management methods and principles.