Dr. Thomas Brown, in The Wall Street Journal"s Across the Board magazine states in reviewing Six Silent Killers: Management"s Greatest Challenge: All top executives should read this book: Invest the time, really read the book, and you"ll probably agree the central reason for an unhappy workplace are some well-defined "killers." And, ever so handily Fisher will lead you to one more (albeit unstated) conclusion: that there"s a seventh killer somewhere here. It"s a management profession failing to move forward with the times, that talks endlessly about "visions" and "empowerment" while refusing to loosen "the command-and-control screws" even one turn. Fisher ends precipitously, but only the manager who reads it can write the next chapter. Six Silent Killers is a frontal attack on why American workers cannot get their work done. It starts with the failure to ask the right questions. We have scores of books on institutional system failures from government to commerce...