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Process!

Rating 3.7
Word count
76K words
Chapters
17
ISBN
9787523604267

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Summary

This book clearly explains the importance of building, maintaining, and optimizing a company's core processes, which are fundamental to accelerating organizational progress and improving efficiency.

A visual process implementation plan for growing organizations

Helping stalled businesses achieve 80% sustained revenue growth over 3 years

Statistics show that only about 10% of businesses survive past their 10th year. If you own, run, or lead a fast-growing company, your drive is likely fueled by passion and a desire for freedom—but sooner or later, almost all such companies face a common problem: a lack of consistent execution.

Many people mistakenly believe that instilling processes throughout an organization stifles freedom. But when you're trapped in day-to-day firefighting and cleaning up messes, your passion turns into frustration—and the secret to breaking free lies in "building strong processes."

Weak processes cause management friction, people dependency, slowed or even halted business growth, and steadily accumulating hidden costs.

Strong processes, by contrast, help companies break through bottlenecks, grow in value continuously, attract better talent, and handle industrial upgrading and transformation with ease.

Editor's review

This book takes "process" out of management jargon and restores it to the survival issue that growing companies cannot avoid. It goes beyond definitions and hierarchies of process, placing the building, maintenance, and optimization of processes within the real turning point where a company moves from passion-driven to consistently executed: how weak processes cause management friction, people dependency, and stalled growth, and how strong processes help companies break through bottlenecks and grow in value continuously. For managers bogged down in daily firefighting and cleaning up messes, the book's value lies in treating process as a means of liberating freedom rather than a constraint. It serves as a starting point for growing organizations to sort out their execution systems, and as a self-check reference when business stalls or expansion spirals out of order. There is no need to read it cover to cover; start with the chapters closest to your current stage, then take the "visual process implementation plan" approach back to your team for a pilot.

Who it's for

A good fit for

  • Founders of growing companies undergoing rapid expansion whose execution is starting to slip
  • Middle managers trapped in daily firefighting and cross-departmental wrangling
  • Operations leaders looking to use processes to improve organizational efficiency and reduce people dependency
  • Internal training organizers who need to explain the value of process to their teams

Not a good fit for

  • Readers who just want ready-made process templates and aren't willing to adapt them to their own business
  • Very small startup teams whose business isn't yet stable and who don't need systematic processes for now
  • Full-time process engineers expecting in-depth technical details of process modeling

Reading tips

  1. Start with the chapters on the hidden costs of weak processes, and record your company's firefighting incidents over the past three months for comparison.
  2. Pilot the book's visual process approach in one department, drawing out that department's core processes as you read.
  3. After each section, hold a short meeting with your team to discuss just one execution step that can be adjusted immediately.

About the publisher

China Science and Technology Press China · Founded in 1956

China Science and Technology Press (also known as the Popular Science Press) has traditionally focused on popular science books, scientific and technical monographs, science journals and textbooks. Its 87 titles in our catalog show how its list extends into the humanities and social sciences: cross-disciplinary works on science and history such as Nuclear Blast Shockwave and Fish Feasts: A History of Human Survival and Evolution; investment classics including John Bogle on Index Funds, The Money Game and Warren Buffett's Letters to Managers; biographies and cultural histories such as Zhou Yueliang's Collected Works: A Biography of Wang Yangming and Style and Civilization: The Extravagant Everyday Life of the Victorian Era; and management titles such as Advantage Negotiation: A Wharton Business School Negotiation Course. Its authors include Stephen Walker, John Bogle, Zhou Yueliang and Ruth Goodman, with translations and original works both represented. Because public information is limited, this description emphasizes the publishing directions reflected in our catalog rather than other aspects.

Contents

  1. 版权信息
  2. EOS®简介 企业和团队缔造非凡业绩的简明行动路线图
  3. 本书赞誉
  4. 推荐序 释放你的“野心”,组织全员获益的极简流程再造手册
  5. 第一部分 COMMIT转变认知 强大的流程是企业运营的第一推动力
  6. 第1章 成长型企业为何常遇发展瓶颈?
  7. 第2章 强大的愿景+强大的流程=强大的企业
  8. 第二部分 LEARN升级工具 如何记录和简化流程,并让所有人都遵循?
  9. 第3章 谁是负责流程落地的最佳人选?
  10. 第4章 三步骤流程记录工具,克服惯性
  11. 第5章 FBA核对清单,确保所有人都遵循
  12. 第三部分 ACT实现预期 让高效运转的流程无缝嵌入企业和组织
  13. 第6章 可视化处理,一套切实可行的流程系统
  14. 第7章 全员一致认同:流程至上
  15. 结语 流程——把你的热情转化成一家蒸蒸日上的企业
  16. 致谢
  17. 作者简介

FAQ

Is this book suitable for a small startup that's just getting off the ground?
The book addresses the problems growing companies face when shifting from passion-driven to consistent execution. If the company is very small and its business isn't yet stable, systematic processes may not be the current priority; but if signs of inconsistent execution or reliance on specific individuals have already appeared, you can use the book's ideas to make lightweight preparations in advance.
Won't processes make the team lose flexibility?
The book directly addresses this misconception: the real problem isn't process itself, but the firefighting and friction that weak processes create. Strong processes are positioned as the foundation for liberating freedom and supporting consistent execution, not as shackles that suppress initiative. As you read, pay attention to how the author distinguishes weak processes from strong ones.
Does the book contain process templates that can be copied directly?
The materials indicate that the book offers a visual process implementation plan and ideas for building, maintaining, and optimizing processes, rather than a collection of general templates. It's better used as a methodological reference for sorting out your own business than as a tool manual to apply directly.

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Mike Paton is represented in this Chinese library database by a single title, Process!, catalogued under management. Publicly available information is limited: his English name, nationality, dates of birth and death, and educational or professional background are not clearly recorded, so a complete biography cannot be drawn. On the evidence available, Paton writes on the management theme of process, addressing readers who want to streamline work steps and improve how organizations operate. Books of this kind usually stress clear procedures, defined responsibilities and consistent execution, and tend to be practical and direct in style, relying on cases or method descriptions. With only one translated title in the collection, the full range of his writing and its influence cannot be fully assessed. Readers may treat the work as an introductory text on process management, noting the conditions under which its methods apply and adapting them to their own organizational settings rather than expecting a systematic theoretical framework.

Lisa Gonzalez is an author about whom limited public information is available. Few details can be confirmed, and her nationality, dates of birth and death, and English name have not been clearly recorded. Based on the available material, she has entered the view of Chinese readers through writing on management. One of her works is included in the database, titled Process! Judging from the title and its classification, the book centers on the management theme of processes and may discuss organizational operations, work steps, or business workflows, addressing readers who wish to sort out and improve everyday management practice. Because background information on the author is scarce, it is not possible to describe her education, professional identity, or writing credentials, nor to determine her place within management thought. Readers should rely primarily on the work itself and treat it as a practical management book focused on process issues rather than an authoritative work resting on the author's reputation.

张弘宇 Author · China

Zhang Hongyu is a Chinese author about whom limited public information is available. It is known that his writing focuses on management books. Among the works held in the library, his representative title is Process!, which is also the only work of his currently included. Judging from the subject matter, Zhang Hongyu is concerned with process issues in organizational operations, placing his work in the field of practical management writing. Because verifiable information on his life, education, and professional experience is lacking, it is not possible to trace his writing development or intellectual sources in detail, and his style and specific influence await further material for clarification. On the basis of the available information, readers may regard him as a practical author writing on process management, participating in the popularization and discussion of management knowledge through Process!.

刘寅龙 Author

Liu Yinlong is an author and translator active in the Chinese-language book publishing field. His publicly available personal information is limited, and biographical details are not recorded in the available sources. Judging from the 25 titles in the collection, his work centers on investment and personal finance books, while also touching on military and management subjects. Representative works include The Little Book of Common Sense Investing (10th Anniversary Fully Updated Edition), Investment Steady Gains: Learning the Common Sense of Steady Returns from the Founder of the World's Largest Fund, Bogle on Index Funds, and Fisher on Growth Stock Profits: An Investment Master's 80-Year Method for Selecting Stocks. These titles revolve around index funds, long-term investing, and growth-stock selection, showing his familiarity with the knowledge traditions of value investing and passive investing. He has also translated The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War and The Money Game, among others, spanning a broad range of subjects. His writing mainly conveys investment common sense and financial topics to general readers, giving him a certain influence in the field of personal finance and financial reading.

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