Ready, set, grow your independent retail store with 33 easy-to-implement secrets! Create a new model for your small to midsize shop that allows you to increase your profits, improve your performance, and lighten your workload. Discover how to: - Reverse the paradigm and put your store to work for you. - Create a pricing structure that ignores the competition and shatters the "big box dilemma". - Secure a place in your community and delivery unparalleled customer service. - Recruit, educate, and retain a superior team to run your retail store and let you work ON the business instead of IN the business.
A guide to getting noticed! The major challenge facing a business today is standing out from the crowd, getting noticed in a noisy overcrowded marketplace. This book offers a fun, fresh approach to attracting the spotlight. Branding, positioning, public speaking, publicity & writing & performing a 30 second informercial are all covered from the perspective that All Business is Show Business. Bursting with stories, this book is an engaging easy read.
No More Rotten Eggs is a comprehensive guide every business owner, hiring manager and HR professional should own. No More Rotten Eggs is the only book in today's market that will not only guide you through a multi-dimensional recruiting process; it also contains all the tools needed to guarantee finding Grade AA Talent the first time, every time. Follow the process and you win. Deviate from the process and it will cost you.
Ask Dr. Mac is a story about the transformation of a newly promoted manager, Justin O'Brien, who is neither emotionally nor professionally prepared to take on a role that he hadn't remotely expected to be offered. Faced with a disgruntled department, an absentee boss, and essentially no management experience whatsoever, Justin suddenly finds himself very alone as captain of what is quickly becoming a sinking ship. Then, just as things are going from bad to worse, Justin's fate changes as he accidentally discovers a daily advice column in the local newspaper called Ask Dr. Mac, written by a management guru of the same name. Partly out of desperation and partly out of curiosity, Justin, using the alias of "Desperate Dave," begins submitting many of his newly created management problems to the Ask Dr. Mac column, in hopes of receiving some kind of guidance.
A No-Nonsense, Step-by-Step, Results-Driven Approach to Driving Business Transformation and Breakthrough Performance
Why do most corporations fail to achieve breakthrough performance? They make things too complex. They clutter it with jargon and confusion. They dither on the launch pad. They hire too many consultants, chase after too many fads. It doesn’t have to be that complicated. Whatever your goal, whatever your role, Michael T. Kanazawa and Robert H. Miles introduce a simple, practical, 100% results- driven approach that works. Drawing on their experience working with hundreds of senior executives, they show how to align your organization behind just a few core initiatives; bias your people toward speed; create leaders at every level; and achieve traction and accountability in all facets of execution. You’ll learn how to engage people instead of frustrating them, and harness their energy instead of wasting it. Whether you’re executing a new initiative, entering a new market, or attempting to transform your entire enterprise, this book will help you find the right path, clear the obstacles, and get there–surely and quickly.
Projects are often more complex and stressful than they need to be. Far too many of them fail to meet expectations. There are far too many conflicts. There are too few moments of joy and too much anxiety. But there is hope. It is possible to remove the unnecessary stress and complexity. This book is about how to do just that. It links the essential principles and techniques of managing projects to a “wisdom” approach for working with complex, people-based activities.
