Author: Kevin Freiberg
Publisher: Broadway Business
Keywords: business, doors, blow, companies, guts
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-09-20
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0767915003
ISBN-13: 9780767915007
Kevin and Jackie Freiberg’s previous book, Nuts!: Southwest Airline’s Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success, described the unconventional leadership that made Southwest an airline industry dynamo. In GUTS!, the Freibergs look at twenty-five gutsy and extraordinarily successful businesses and introduce the chief executives who are creating a new corporate ethos that blows the doors off business-as-usual.Drawing on five years of research, the Freibergs provide a behind-the-scenes look at these intensely focused, passionate, and unconventional leaders and their companies. Among them:
Author: Dev Patnaik
Publisher: FT Press
Keywords: widespread, empathy, create, prosper, care, companies, wired
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-01-19
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 013714234X
ISBN-13: 9780137142347
Praise for Wired to Care “Wired to Care will convince you that businesses succeed with their hearts as much as their heads. Dev Patnaik has given us just what we need for the lean years ahead.” MALCOLM GLADWELL, author of Outliers, Blink, and The Tipping Point “Wired to Care describes how to recover the basic human abilities of empathy that may be buried by your day-to-day business routines. Dev Patnaik shows how you can create a more empathic--and much more successful--business.” CHIP HEATH, author of Made to Stick “Dev Patnaik’s Wired to Care maps a path to in
Author: Keith R. McFarland
Publisher: Crown Business
Keywords: extraordinary, performers, companies, everyday, company, breakthrough
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-01-15
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0307352188
ISBN-13: 9780307352187
The vast majority of small businesses stay small—and not by choice. Only the most savvy and persistent—a tiny one tenth of one percent—break through to annual sales above $250 million. In The Breakthrough Company, Keith McFarland pinpoints how everyday companies become extraordinary, showing that luck is a negligible factor. Rather, breakthrough success turns out to be associated with a clearly identifiable set of strategies and skills that anyone in any business can emulate—from small startup to industry leader.Encouraged by experts such as business legend Peter Drucker and Good to Gr
Authors:George Cawston, A. H. Keane,
Publisher: Lawbook Exchange
Keywords: companies, chartered
Number of Pages: 329
Published: 2001-09
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 1584771968
ISBN-13: 9781584771968
Cawston, George and A.H. Keane. The Early Chartered Companies (A.D. 1296-1858). London: Edward Arnold, 1896. Frontispiece. xi, 329 pp. Reprinted 2002 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2001041393. ISBN 1-58477-196-8. Cloth. $75. A study of the inner workings of early chartered companies, especially in their direct connection to the rise and expansion of British commercial and political power between 1296 and 1858. Describes regulated and joint stock companies and such ventures as the Hanseatic League, The Russia Company, The Eastland Company, The Turkey (Levant) Company, the Hudson Bay and E
Author: Jeremiah Lambert
Publisher: PennWell Corp.
Keywords: deregulation, wrong, reform, market, companies, energy
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $69.00
ISBN-10: 1593700601
ISBN-13: 9781593700607
During the last two decades deregulation and restructuring were widely expected to transform the nation’s energy industries, bringing more competitive pricing and abundant, reliable energy to the public. Instead, consumers and investors in the post-Enron era have suffered losses measured in the billions, attributable to market-rigging, accounting fraud, and business plans that were doomed to failure. In this in-depth look at the latest era of greed, the author explains how the leaders of these companies schemed, collaborated or ignored the obvious signs that signaled the oncoming failures of
Author: Ian I. Mitroff
Publisher: AMACOM
Keywords: lessons, surviving, disaster, essential, crisis, emerge, stronger, companies
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2005-03-11
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0814408508
ISBN-13: 9780814408506
There is a fundamental difference between business continuity planning and crisis management. Even a complete operational plan does little to prepare a company to come through a crisis with strength and confidence. According to Ian Mitroff, crises can (and will) now arise with unprecedented frequency, complexity, and destructive power, as what was once rare is now the norm: terrorism, cyberattacks, large-scale fraud, and kidnappings. This all-too-timely book presents 7 competencies that companies must develop in order to deal with what is now a virtual certainty. Mitroff outlines how to foster
Authors:Craig Terrill, Arthur Middlebrooks,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: companies, service, strategies, leadership, market
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1999-10-11
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0844224413
ISBN-13: 9780844224411
Market Leadership Strategies for Service Companies reveals the key strategies for creating and sustaining a market leadership position for any service business. Service industry experts Craig A. Terrill and Arthur G. Middlebrooks affirm that in order to become a dominant market leader, a service company must find ways to: Define their service business and the benefits customers receive Reveal the intangible aspects of the service experience Move in a different direction from competitors by addressing new, intense, and unmet customer needs Put people back into the equation, not just automate
