Download or read book Working Toward Excellence written by Paul Buyer and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Weaves together thoughts, stories, and quotes from top performers in music, business, and sports to help you achieve excellence” (Jeff Janssen, founder and president of the Janssen Sports Leadership Center). Does excellence relentlessly drive you? Does mediocrity constantly bother you? In Working Toward Excellence, Clemson University professor Paul Buyer identifies eight values for achieving excellence in work and life including hunger, effort, process, quality, consistency, leadership, time, and perseverance. Each chapter features inspiring stories, questions, and quotes from respected professionals who have achieved uncommon success in business, sports, education, and the arts such as John Maxwell, Jim Collins, Stephen Covey, John Wooden, Mike Krzyzewski, Wynton Marsalis, Isaac Stern, and many others. Also included is a Working Toward Excellence Evaluation to help you and your organization reach your true potential and further develop, improve, and measure these essential attributes of success. “Working Toward Excellence has captures my attention in a big way. It is filled with valuable and practical information. It will make a major difference in your life.” —Pat Williams, Orlando Magic, senior vice president, author of Leadership Excellence

Download or read book Uncommon Service written by Frances X. Frei and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an organizational design model for service organizations, covering such topics as funding mechanisms, employee management systems, and customer management systems.

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Download or read book The One Year Uncommon Life Daily Challenge written by Tony Dungy and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-10-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retailers Choice Award winner, 2012 Strengthen the core of your life and faith on a year-long journey with beloved Super Bowl–winning former head coach Tony Dungy and co-author Nathan Whitaker! This deluxe LeatherLike edition of the New York Times best-selling The One Year Uncommon Life Daily Challenge contains 365 reflections from Tony and Nathan on living an “uncommon life” of integrity, honoring your family and friends, creating a life of real significance and impact, and walking with the Lord. This year, step up to the challenge to spend time with God—and dare to be uncommon every day. A perfect gift for sports fans, coaches, athletes, and dads!

Download or read book Beyond the Sales Process written by Steve Andersen and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to gain the winning edge for your sales performance, it’s time to embrace the entire customer life cycle. Your job may be all about sales, but not your customers. Did you know that the average executive spends less than 5 percent of their time engaged in the buying of products and services? Therefore, sales professionals who focus solely on the moment of the sale have made a fatal miscalculation in understanding their customers. Beyond the Sales Process provides you with a proven methodology for driving success before, during, and after every sale. Featuring instructional case studies from companies such as Hilton Worldwide, Merck, and Siemens, this resource reveals 12 essential strategies for salespeople wanting to take their performance to a whole new level, including: Research your customer Build a vision with them for their own success Understand your customer’s drivers, objectives, and challenges Create and realize value together Leverage your results to forge lasting--and mutually beneficial—relationships If you want to successfully sell to your customers, you need to know your customers…beyond the sales process!

Download or read book Concepts of Value in Property written by Thomas Rasche and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People recognise many values in buildings: financial, social, cultural, environmental... Each of these represents a different concept of value, and together they are a value typology. Every person, business, academic, profession and building has a value typology...yet, there is no consensus of what the value types are, should be, or which are important. This book looks at value typologies used in property, real estate, architecture and other related disciplines. Then, Benefit values are divided into Financial values and Non-financial values. Individual value types and concepts are discussed and reviewed. Concepts include Capital, Cashflow and Time, as well as various methods to formulate, calculate and communicate non-financial values. Finally, the new Values Typology Method and Values Typology Diagram are presented. Discover the language of values, formulate your value typology and communicate them clearly. You can set the values for a project or make an appraisal of your real estate...

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Download or read book Accounting From the Outside RLE Accounting written by Tony Hopwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 43 papers in this collection, originally published from 1972 to 1987 delve into accounting, observing and exploring its functioning. They construct a basis for interrogating it in use and indeed they attempt to account for accounting. The author seeks to understand accounting, to appreciate what it is, what it does and how it does it, examining it from without rather than from within.