Louis Grossman, Marianne Jennings

Building a Business Through Good Times and Bad

Lessons from 15 Companies, Each with a Century of Dividends

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Grossman and Jennings examine 15 industrial companies and find unique characteristics in their values and management styles-characteristics that other companies would be wise to understand and emulate. Each of the example companies knew they were in business to make money. Dynamic, questioning, and actively in step with society's changes, they constantly asked themselves one critical question: What business are we in? The answers they found, the principles of management they discovered and practiced, and the values they recognized and adopted all led to prosperity. In the current age of gurus, buzzwords, and fad theories, these companies' stories reaffirm that there are notions, principles, and management techniques that have proved themselves over time and can lead an organization toward a profitable, enduring corporate life. The authors offer frank insights into how businesses survive and grow. Anecdotal but based on solid research, with clarifying diagrams and other illustrations, this book is a major contribution to our understanding of the past, and a view of what is best in the future of today's organizations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9781567205190
• ISBN-10: 1567205194
• Artikelnr.: 21208565

Autorenporträt

Louis Grossman, Marianne M. Jennings

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Who They Are and What They Did Introduction Who Are These Companies? Why Study Fifteen Companies and 1,526 Years of Dividends? The Stories of Past Survivors The Stories of Present Survivors How They Did What They Did The Five Keys to the Long
Term: Purpose; Performance; Perfection; Priorities; and People Key One: Purpose
Why Are We in Business? Key Two: Performance
What Business Are We In? Key Three: Perfection
Will We Ever Be Satisfied? Key Four: Priorities: What Will We Do and What Won't We Do for Results? Key Five: People
Who Matters? Employees Do. How Do You Do It? Getting to 100 Years: Creating a Climate for the Long
Term The Steps to the Long Term Index