The BUM Book

Too often, people are promoted to management not because of leadership skills but for professional skills. BUM Books and Blog is a website that supports management and leadership growth and development.

Historically we have found, in any business or service, three critical areas of concern, project management, supply chain management, and management and leadership in general, are intertwined such that the cause and effect of problem identification, solutions, and implementation are overshadowed by departmental independence and egos rather than realizing when one entity is affected by something others are affected as well. This website provides a blog pointing out the issues causing management and leadership issues and then speaking to the solutions to overcome management and leadership problems (many of which are social media crates) with practical tools and techniques to support managerial and leadership growth and development.

Gene is a retired Associate Professor of Professional Practice and Senior Program Manager at Rutgers Business School, Department of Supply Chain Management. He was the founder and President of the Cambridge Group, a Project Management consulting and organizational development firm located in Bedminster, New Jersey. He has an international reputation in project management, communications, and operations management. He has over fifty years of experience in management, project management, and both line and staff positions, enabling him to deliver practical, common sense, and theory-based perspectives. Before his position as project manager for the United Nations Gene performed various positions, from President of a firm pioneering and specializing in automated systems to Vice-President of engineering of a Fortune 500 company. Gene holds degrees in psychology and engineering with an advanced degree in psychology. Mr. Spiegle has been an adjunct faculty in project management, engineering management, and communications at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Alabama, The Conference Board of New York, and Battelle Memorial Institute. He is also the author and designer of the "Project Management Guidelines" process, a process currently utilized by many organizations to manage their projects. Gene's book "Taming a Silent Killer - - Your Stress" was released in May of 2002, followed by "Project Management – The Basics For Success," and co-authored (with William McLaury), "Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management, A practitioner's Perspective, published in 2016 by Kendall Hunt