Download or read book Grow written by Jim Stengel and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years of research uncover the secret source of growth and profit … Those who center their business on improving people’s lives have a growth rate triple that of competitors and outperform the market by a huge margin. They dominate their categories, create new categories and maximize profit in the long term. Pulling from a unique ten year growth study involving 50,000 brands, Jim Stengel shows how the world's 50 best businesses—as diverse as Method, Red Bull, Lindt, Petrobras, Samsung, Discovery Communications, Visa, Zappos, and Innocent—have a cause and effect relationship between financial performance and their ability to connect with fundamental human emotions, hopes, values and greater purposes. In fact, over the 2000s an investment in these companies—“The Stengel 50”—would have been 400 percent more profitable than an investment in the S&P 500. Grow is based on unprecedented empirical research, inspired (when Stengel was Global Marketing Officer of Procter & Gamble) by a study of companies growing faster than P&G. After leaving P&G in 2008, Stengel designed a new study, in collaboration with global research firm Millward Brown Optimor. This study tracked the connection over a ten year period between financial performance and customer engagement, loyalty and advocacy. Then, in a further investigation of what goes on in the “black box” of the consumer’s mind, Stengel and his team tapped into neuroscience research to look at customer engagement and measure subconscious attitudes to determine whether the top businesses in the Stengel Study were more associated with higher ideals than were others. Grow thus deftly blends timeless truths about human behavior and values into an action framework – how you discover, build, communicate, deliver and evaluate your ideal. Through colorful stories drawn from his fascinating personal experiences and “deep dives” that bring out the true reasons for such successes as the Pampers, HP, Discovery Channel, Jack Daniels and Zappos, Grow unlocks the code for twenty-first century business success.

Download or read book Grow Your Profits written by Chris Provost and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backcover Notes: “Here’s an award-winning practitioner writing on “Green Transformation” for businesses and governments who has walked the talk as the former Director of Fleet, Strategy and Shared Services from Walmart, the world’s largest retailer. Equipped to identify the dynamics of environmental degradation if we continue in our present ways, he proves his thesis by identifying vivid global and local examples of abuses with visceral human, natural, financial and moral consequences. Provost tables practical, competitive edge solutions for businesses and governments to adopt on the road to building sustainable business models. He asks today’s key question of businesses – “What does your green environmental audit show?” There’s nowhere to hide from the dramatic and pressing need for reform and action now!” Doug Zimmerman, President Promolink Marketing ______________________________________________________________________ "In Grow Your Profits, Provost creates with the VBridge” a unique, perceptive approach to Integrated Value Chain Management. This book offers a fresh group of ideas, concepts, and actions that will optimize cost savings across your Supply Chain." Paul Rockett, CEO, Sherway Group of Companies (35-year specialists in warehousing and transportation) ______________________________________________________________________ “An incredible and invaluable read, Grow Your Profits addresses the practical and theoretical interconnection of the environmental movement and profitability. The book provides a springboard of practical responses to capitalism’s need for profit, while at the same time addressing the need for continual sustainable growth. My role is to aide businesses to grow and the book identified practical alternatives that can deliver results.” Ryan Kagan, CA, Managing Partner, Kagan & Kagan LLP Summary Learn how to increase profits, green your business, and compete on value. Applying the ideas in this book to your organization will enable you to achieve increased profits and a sustainable future. While climate change, high fuel prices, food shortages, population growth, and economic crisis are affecting our lives, businesses, and governments, Provost shows how using VBridge Integrated Value Chain Management and Servant Leadership we can step away from the sink hole. An inspiring and provocative look at how we got into this crisis and how we can get out, this book argues consumers, business and government need to work jointly on financial accounting, business and environmental models to succeed in fixing the issues. Where many people just provide arguments Provost steps up and provides solutions.

Download or read book Profit First written by Mike Michalowicz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author of cult classics The Pumpkin Plan and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur offers a simple, counterintuitive cash management solution that will help small businesses break out of the doom spiral and achieve instant profitability. Conventional accounting uses the logical (albeit, flawed) formula: Sales - Expenses = Profit. The problem is, businesses are run by humans, and humans aren't always logical. Serial entrepreneur Mike Michalowicz has developed a behavioral approach to accounting to flip the formula: Sales - Profit = Expenses. Just as the most effective weight loss strategy is to limit portions by using smaller plates, Michalowicz shows that by taking profit first and apportioning only what remains for expenses, entrepreneurs will transform their businesses from cash-eating monsters to profitable cash cows. Using Michalowicz's Profit First system, readers will learn that: · Following 4 simple principles can simplify accounting and make it easier to manage a profitable business by looking at bank account balances. · A small, profitable business can be worth much more than a large business surviving on its top line. · Businesses that attain early and sustained profitability have a better shot at achieving long-term growth. With dozens of case studies, practical, step-by-step advice, and his signature sense of humor, Michalowicz has the game-changing roadmap for any entrepreneur to make money they always dreamed of.

Download or read book Grow the Pie written by Alex Edmans and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should companies be run for profit or purpose? This book shows how they can deliver both-based on rigorous evidence and an actionable framework. This edition, updated to include the pandemic and latest research, explains how managers, investors and citizens can put purpose into practice-and overcome the difficult trade-offs that hold them back.

Download or read book Grow Your Factory Grow Your Profits written by Timothy McLean and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I was first given the job of managing a small plastics factory back in 1989, I quickly realized that most of the books and teaching on Lean Manufacturing were designed for big companies and were not relevant to my factory. —Tim Mclean The last 25 years has seen Tim lead and assist over 100 small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) manufacturing operations. This experience has now been condensed in to Grow Your Factory, Grow your Profits: Lean for Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturing Enterprises, a start-to-finish guide on how to run a successful small and medium-sized manufacturing operation. The book presents case studies, practical examples, illustrations, charts, and pictures from real SME manufacturers to provide straightforward solutions to the issues facing every growing manufacturing business. In the book, Tim McLean explains: How to recruit the right people and design the right organization How to empower those people to take accountability and free yourself up from day to day "fire fighting" How to develop a Lean Plant Layout that will maximize productivity and optimize the use of space How to manage materials in order to slash inventory and shortages How to schedule production in order to cut lead times, cut inventory, and delight customers How to get started on a Lean transformation when you lack the resources of a big company The book details how SMEs differ from large organizations and why the approach to improvement must also be different. Covering the complete life cycle of small and medium-sized manufacturers, the book addresses a different SME manufacturing issue in each chapter. This enables readers to tackle issues at their own pace and in their own order of priority. Grow Your Factory, Grow Your Profits is essential reading for owners, managers, and operational leaders in the 90 percent of manufacturing enterprises that are small or medium sized.

Download or read book Power Your Profits written by Susie Carder and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how to create “success in all aspects of life and business” (Lisa Nichols, New York Times bestselling author) with this comprehensive, bulletproof plan for taking your business from startup mode to the multi-million-dollar mark straight from the inventor of the Predictable Success Method™. In the United States, most small business owners struggle daily to make ends meet. Two-thirds of businesses earn less than $25,000 a year. Thankfully, Susie Carder—entrepreneur and business coach to everyone from Steve Harvey to Paul Mitchell—has developed the ultimate formula for incredible success. But she didn’t create it overnight. Susie Carder was at rock bottom financially during the Great Recession of 2008 when she was inspired to dig in and rebuild her fortune from the ground up. Today, she takes what she learned during that difficult time and shares her radical business strategies that have helped countless entrepreneurs and small business owners increase their revenues by more than 3,000%. As the creator of the Predictable Success Method™, Carder has a proven, twenty-year track record that includes building two $10 million companies herself, which she later sold. Filled with clear-eyed and practical advice, Power Your Profits teaches you how to run your daily operations, understand your finances, account for sales, and employ marketing systems that lead to predictable and substantial revenue and profit growth. And now, she’s sharing her hard-won wisdom—worth $5,000 an hour in coaching fees—with you.

Download or read book Choose Your Customer How to Compete Against the Digital Giants and Thrive written by Jonathan L. S. Byrnes and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two top specialists in profitable growth and innovative customer-supplier relationships show companies of all sizes how to compete with the tech giants—by choosing and providing peerless value to the right customers for long-term success. Every year, managers at companies large and small are finding it harder to compete with the likes of Google and Amazon, who are muscling into their businesses, stealing their customers, and cornering every conceivable market and service. There is, however, a way for companies to survive—and win—in this era of digital behemoths. Choose Your Customer is a powerful, consumer-targeted guide that can help managers level the playing field against their biggest competitors. Written by Jonathan Byrnes, the legendary MIT-based expert on profits, pricing, and strategy, and John Wass, a key member of the team that made Staples a major national brand, Choose Your Customer shows managers how to: Identify the customers who are the most profitable—and focus on them. Provide services and experiences that can’t be replicated by the tech giants, no matter how much data they have, or how much automation they use. Support your chosen customers’ diverse and rapidly evolving needs to accelerate profitability and growth. These customer-driven strategies enable leaders to build a uniquely targeted business that the digital giants just can’t match. From unbeatable customer service to superior pricing and product selection, Choose Your Customer provides detailed and actionable advice on how to compete successfully with the big guys and how to increase profits as a result.

Download or read book Grow Your Factory Grow Your Profits written by Timothy McLean and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-08-02 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I was first given the job of managing a small plastics factory back in 1989, I quickly realized that most of the books and teaching on Lean Manufacturing were designed for big companies and were not relevant to my factory.Tim McleanThe last 25 years has seen Tim lead and assist over 100 small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) manufacturing ope

Download or read book Profit from the Core written by Chris Zook and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2010-02-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Profit from the Core was published in 2001, it became an international bestseller, helping hundreds of companies find their way back to profitable growth after the bursting of the Internet bubble. The 2007 global financial meltdown reaffirmed the perils of pursuing heady growth through untested strategies, as firms in industries from finance to retailing to automobiles strayed too far from their core businesses and suffered the consequences. In this updated edition of Profit from the Core, authors Chris Zook and James Allen show that a renewed focus on the core is more critical than ever as firms seek to rebuild their competitive advantage coming out of the downturn—and that a strong core will be the foundation for successful expansion as the economy recovers. Based on more than ten years of Bain & Company research and analysis and fresh examples from firms responding to the current downturn, the book outlines what today’s executives and managers need to do now to revitalize their core, identify the next wave of profitable growth, and build on it successfully. Zook and Allen explain how companies can: • Develop a strong, well-defined core and use it to establish a leadership position • Follow the golden rule of strategy: discourage competitors from investing in your core • Assess whether your core is operating at its full potential • Uncover hidden assets in your core that provide the seeds for new growth • Find a repeatable formula to apply core business strengths in adjacent markets Building on powerful and proven ideas to meet today’s formidable business challenges, Profit from the Core is the back-to-basics strategy field guide no manager should be without.

Download or read book 5 Easy Ways to Increase Your Profits Today written by Chris Gold and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author of the classic series "how to grow your online business" offers an easy-to-follow guide on how to increase your income and make your online business work for you.Is there a "secret" way to grow your profits?This eBook is a simple, "secret" formula to massively grow profits in any business.Since good business knowledge is one of the key elements to business success, the more knowledge I would like to help you "re-educate" yourself and your team on how to run a more profitable business, the more comfortable you will become with the idea of coaching, and the more open you may be to some of the other systems and strategies available.There is "Magic" in Numbers.While most people see profits based only on two factors (revenues and costs), the "5 Ways" sees profit based on 5 separate profit drivers.Just with a few simple distinctions, the "5 Ways" gives you 2.5 times more options to work on your profit - giving you 2.5 times more opportunity boost your profits - versus other "expert" owners who love to "cut their way" on the expense side to boost their profits.With practical, step-by-step advice, and a easy story like approach, Chris Gold has a simple to follow road-map for any entrepreneur to make money and get the freedom they always dreamed of.

Download or read book The Personal MBA written by Josh Kaufman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-12-30 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master the fundamentals, hone your business instincts, and save a fortune in tuition. The consensus is clear: MBA programs are a waste of time and money. Even the elite schools offer outdated assembly-line educations about profit-and-loss statements and PowerPoint presentations. After two years poring over sanitized case studies, students are shuffled off into middle management to find out how business really works. Josh Kaufman has made a business out of distilling the core principles of business and delivering them quickly and concisely to people at all stages of their careers. His blog has introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to the best business books and most powerful business concepts of all time. In The Personal MBA, he shares the essentials of sales, marketing, negotiation, strategy, and much more. True leaders aren't made by business schools-they make themselves, seeking out the knowledge, skills, and experiences they need to succeed. Read this book and in one week you will learn the principles it takes most people a lifetime to master.

Download or read book The Lifestyle Business Owner written by Aaron Muller and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A proven three-step guide to buying your own business, and adding more profit, free time & meaning to your life, by a #1 international-bestselling author. The Lifestyle Business Owner reveals how ordinary people can buy a small business in their community, earn a six-figure income, and make the business run without them. Aaron Muller, founder of Lifestyle Business Owner Academy, reveals the 3-step formula he utilized to go from a kid who didn’t attend college to the owner of eight companies that run without him. Now it’s your turn to discover the secrets to owning a business that gives you the financial freedom, lifestyle, and contribution you desire. Praise for The Lifestyle Business Owner “Aaron Muller cuts right to the chase on what you need to do to own a profitable business that runs without you.” —Marci Shimoff, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Happy for No Reason and Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul “This practical book is full of proven strategies and techniques you can use immediately to increase your sales and profitability—from the first day.” —Brian Tracy, author of Now, Build a Great Business “A must-read for anyone who wants to be a business owner.” —Gino Wickman, creator of EOS and author of the award-winning, bestselling book, Traction “Aaron Muller opened my eyes to the world of buying and running a business (or two or more) as a way to express your values, have fun, be creative and make enough money to have everything you need…including a time for life’s non-material pleasures.” —Vicki Robin, co-author of Your Money or Your Life

Download or read book Power Your Profits written by Susie Carder and published by Atria Books. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The book I wish I had when I was struggling to figure out how to take my business to the next level. Follow Susie’s strategies and power up your success!” —JJ Virgin, founder of Mindshare Collaborative and New York Times bestselling author A comprehensive, bulletproof start-to-finish plan for taking your business from startup mode to the multi-million-dollar mark straight from the inventor of the Predictable Success Method™. In the United States, most people who own small businesses struggle daily to make ends meet. Two-thirds of businesses earn less than $25,000 a year. Thankfully, Susie Carder—entrepreneur and business coach to everyone from Steve Harvey to Paul Mitchell—has developed the ultimate formula for incredible success. But she didn’t create it overnight. Susie Carder was at rock bottom financially during the Great Recession of 2008 when she was inspired to dig in and rebuild her fortune from the ground up. Today, she takes what she learned during that difficult time and shares her radical business strategies that have helped countless entrepreneurs and small business owners increase their revenues by more than 3,000%. As the creator of the Predictable Success Method™, Carder has a proven, twenty-year track record that includes building two $10 million companies herself, which she later sold. Filled with clear-eyed and practical advice, Power Your Profits teaches you how to run your daily operations, understand your finances, account for sales, and employ marketing systems that lead to predictable and substantial revenue and profit growth. And now, she’s sharing her hard-won wisdom—worth $5,000 an hour in coaching fees—with you.

Download or read book How to Double Your Profits in Six Months Or Less written by Brian Kaskavalciyan and published by brian kaskavalciyan. This book was released on 2008 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Simple Numbers Straight Talk Big Profits written by Gregory Burges Crabtree and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple Numbers can guide you to increased business profitability Take the mystery out of small business finance with this no-frills guide to understanding the numbers that will guide your business out of any financial black hole. Author Greg Crabtree, a successful accountant, small business advisor, and popular presenter, shows you how to use your firm's key financial indicators as a basis for smart business decisions as you grow your firm from startup to $5 million (and, more ) in annual revenue. Jargon free, and presented in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step format, with plenty of real-world examples, Crabtree's down-to-earth discussion highlights the most common financial errors committed by small businesses, and how to avoid them. You'll be fascinated to learn: Why your numbers are lying to you (and why you are the cause ) How labor productivity is the key to profitability and simplifying human resource decisions Why the amount of tax you pay is your #1 key performance indicator Take advantage of Crabtree's years of experience teaching clients how to build successful businesses by ''seeing beyond numbers'' with this step-by-step guide to increasing your businesses profitability.

Download or read book Profits Aren t Everything They re the Only Thing written by George Cloutier and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When small- and medium-sized business owners first hear George Cloutier's rules, they often think he's a madman. His controversial rules for doing business—rules that aren't taught at Harvard Business School—include: The best family business has one member. Weekends are for working, not playing golf or coaching. Never pay your vendors on time. Wear your control freak badge with pride. Quit denial: if your business is failing during a recession, it's your fault. As the founder and CEO of American Management Services, Cloutier has emerged as "the leading advocate for small business" (Reuters), having spent over thirty years guiding business owners through the tough choices that line the road to profitability. He and his company have worked with more than six thousand companies, averting certain ruin for some and generating seemingly impossible growth and profitability for others. Cloutier graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Business School, but the lessons in this book aren't from there. Unlike his classmates, most of whom headed straight to Wall Street, Cloutier has been on the docks at 2 a.m. counting heads of lettuce for food distributors to make sure nothing would disappear without a waybill. He's spent long, overnight hours in truck stops, making sure sticky fingers stayed out of the tills. Cloutier and his colleagues at American Management Services become personal pitt bulls to the CEOs who hire them, doing whatever it takes to bring their clients' businesses back into long-term profitability. Profits Aren't Everything, They're the Only Thing is the long- overdue wake-up call for 23 million small- and midsize business owners across America. This book serves up the hard-boiled, unadulterated truth to aspiring and established entrepreneurs, without apologies. His no-nonsense advice may be hard to hear at times, but it works.

Download or read book Outsizing written by Steve Coughran and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Principles of Growth and Success Do you want to grow your business? In the past, have you struggled to realize the desired outcomes of your strategy? Do you feel that you’re making all the right business moves but are still coming up short? In Outsizing, author Steve Coughran assembles decades of research, hundreds of interviews, and multi-industry consulting experience to identify the strategic factors that dictate the difference between exorbitant success and bankruptcy. This helpful guidebook walks you through crafting and implementing proven strategies to outgrow your limitations to achieve extraordinary results. Outsizing uniquely combines the principles of strategy, innovation, and finance into a comprehensive framework for generating value. ​Each chapter contains timely examples and proprietary insights to illustrate how businesses can form inimitable strategies that deliver value to the customer and capture value for the organization. The information is pertinent to any organization seeking to strengthen its culture, leverage advantages, focus on the essential, provide outstanding experiences to customers, and maximize financial returns. Outsizing will empower you to design strategies out of lessons learned as well as internal and external changes to build a foundation for enduring success.