DescriptionBe a stylish success with your own hair salon and day spa. Hair salons and day spas across the country are making as much as $300, 000 a year - and you can, too. Whether you want to start a small salon out of your home or open a full-blown day spa, this au…
DescriptionDo you wish you could more fully engage your employees? Or reduce turnover by 25% or more? Do you need to quickly align staff around your organization's long-term strategy? Or achieve double-digit growth? Then this groundbreaking audiobook is for you.
DescriptionThis practical audiobook encourages listeners to become stronger team players through the straight-forward presentation of the three great needs teams meet, the four great barriers to teamwork, and the five great traits of effective teams.
DescriptionThe food industry can provide you with an exciting way to make some tasty profits! Whether your dream is to open a little cafe on the corner or the next hottest restaurant in town, this easy-to-use audio guide will tell you everything you need to know to…
DescriptionTwenty-two common - often hidden - mistakes lie between you and a successful management career. Learn to identify these mistakes and correct them and your career will surge forward unimpeded by unnecessary errors. This surefire program was designed by one of the leading experts in managerial motivation techniques. It will help you see the effects of your actions and decisions, and will even help you overcome those hard-to-acknowledge mistakes we all make but usually don't see until it's too late. You may think you're on the fast track, but until you address these issues, you're stuck without a road map. Use James K. Van Fleet's step-by-step program and your department will be up-to-date, on-track, ultraefficient, and supremely motivated.
DescriptionThe ability to solve the right problems gives an organization a true competitive edge. Smart Thinking for Crazy Times is leading business professor Ian Mitroff's audio guide for learning how to spot the right problems, frame them correctly, and implement appropriate solutions. You'll learn how to identify a genuine problem, approach it with a solid grasp of what is at stake, talk and think it through, and look at the whole situation in relation to its parts.
DescriptionEsteemed business-school professors and renowned marketing consultants Alex Rovira and Fernando Trias de Bes have advised such multinational corporations as Bayer, Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft, Pepsi, and Sony. Written to counter the belief in blind chance, t…
DescriptionIn 1972, Sears, Roebuck, and Co. was America's greatest store, accounting for over 1 percent of the gross national product. Suddenly, profits plummeted and the stock price collapsed. Sears was at civil war and in need of a new leader. In 1978, Edward R. Telling became the Sears chairman, and by 1984 Sears was back on top, bigger than ever. Telling turned things around so dramatically it seemed like a miracle. But the resurrection of Sears as a great American merchant was no miracle, but the result of the power, vision, and will of strong leadership. Award-winning journalist Donald Katz, who received unprecedented and unrestricted access to Sears's records, meetings, and executives, delivers a spellbinding account that gives you a front-row seat to a corporate revolution. Katz is the Founder of the leading player in the Internet audio sphere.
DescriptionWhen was the last time you took a course to make yourself more marketable, and found yourself wondering just what in the world you were doing? Or watched "square peg" employees dropped into "round hole" positions only to fail miserably as revenues tumbled…
DescriptionThe nation's top CE0s share valuable insights and strategies for solving cutting-edge management and leadership issues, and reveal their most important success secrets. Compiled by the CEO of top consulting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers, the memos relay wisdom relevant to the general business audience. Issues include how to leverage technology and improve performance; guide, stimulate, and measure innovations; promote new programs for managing and developing people; and more. This fascinating book includes memos from the CEOs of UPS, Home Depot, Lycos, Pharmacia & Upjohn, Xerox, and more.
