Up Your Business!: 7 Steps to Fix, Build, or Stretch Your Organization Hardback - 2007
by Dave Anderson; Foreword by John C. Maxwell
In this newly updated edition, Anderson lays out a real-world, seven-step program for supercharging any company's performance.
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Up Your Business!, Second Edition is a no-holds-barred manifesto on making your organization perform at the highest possible level. Straightforward, honest, and in your face, it doesn't offer empty buzzwords or mysterious acronyms or questionable cure-alls. It outlines seven no-nonsense steps you can take to fix, build, or stretch your business. This revised edition is better than ever, featuring updated strategies at the end of each chapter. In addition, a new final chapter called "Closing the Gap Between Knowing and Doing" equips you with the tools and inspiration to successfully implement the book's strategies.
Up Your Business!, Second Edition proves it takes quality leaders to build quality companies. If your business is struggling, look in the mirror first, then get to work with these seven vital steps:
Step one: Hire the right people. With tips and tools for recruiting and interviewing, you'll learn to bring in the people who can take your business to a higher level--and get rid of the ones who can't.
Step two: Replace your culture of entitlement with a culture of merit. Learn to produce positive pressure to perform and reward the people who can get you to the top.
Step three: Develop the talent you bring in. Use easy step-by-step methods and proven tools to train, coach, and mentor your people.
Step four: Think BIG and set unreasonable goals. Now that you've got the right people in place and built a culture of merit and success, it's time to go for it!
Step five: Be the leader your business deserves. Ensure your company's growth and vitality by executing the vital daily disciplines that only a leader can accomplish.
Step six: Survive success. Overcome the six temptations that undermine successful organizations.
Step seven: Get down to business! Follow through on the principles you've learned and institutionalize them for sustainable, long-term benefit.
Whether you lead a Fortune 500 company or a mom-and-pop small business, quality leadership is the key to unlimited success. Up Your Business!, Second Edition offers tried-and-true leadership principles and real examples that will help you take responsibility, take control, and take your business to the top.
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- Title Up Your Business!: 7 Steps to Fix, Build, or Stretch Your Organization
- Author Dave Anderson; Foreword by John C. Maxwell
- Binding Hardback
- Edition 2nd Edition, Rev
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley, Hoboken, N.J
- Publication date 2007-03-01
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780470068564 / 0470068566
- Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.29 cm)
- Category Business / Economics / Finance
- Library of Congress subjects Organizational behavior, Personnel management
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007275662
- Dewey Decimal Code 658.3
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