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All the business wisdom in the world doesn’t matter if it doesn’t produce results. Whether your business is humming along fine or struggling to stay afloat, your company has more potential than the results show.Brian Tracy has worked with more than 500 companies throughout the US, Canada, and 22 other countries. He has helped hundreds of thousands of people worldwide to achieve spectacular results, and now he is helping businesses reach new levels of success in this book.Companies in all industries can get on the fast track to more focused strategy, better planning, more powerful marketing and sales approaches, and higher profits. Tracy reveals the practical techniques that the most successful businesses use to thrive, even in the toughest markets.In Turbostrategy, you will learn how to:Maintain flexibility, the key to dealing with an ever-changing business landscapeArticulate your business’ vision, values, mission, purpose, and goalsDraw a line through the past and become your own turnaround specialistHire the best people and motivate them to excellentThrough 21 strategy points and dozens of examples, stories, and quotations from world-class thinkers and corporate leaders, Turbostrategy will show any company how to turbocharge its strategy and get its business firing on all cylinders.

"Whether you were born a leader or have had leadership thrust upon you, you’re in for a whole new set of challenges when managing other leaders. Think of the qualities that have brought you to a leadership role: your vision, confidence, and charisma, or perhaps your experience, unique skills, expertise, or network of powerful allies. Now remind yourself that other leaders share some or all of these qualities with you. The leaders you are called upon to lead may be other executives, highly educated experts, investors, board members, government officials, doctors, lawyers, or other professionals. The potential contributions of these elites to any organization are vital, but the likelihood of friction is also high if you don’t manage relationships carefully. In any case, they are people with significant resources -- and strong opinions. How do you leverage the assets of the talented and powerful while making sure that egos remain unbruised? Leading Leaders breaks the challenge down into the Seven Daily Tasks of Leadership, and shows you how to carry out each task when you have to manage other leaders. The seven tasks and the special challenges they entail in leading leaders are: 1. Direction How do you negotiate a vision for the organization that other leaders will buy into? 2. Integration How do you make stars a team? 3. Mediation How do you resolve conflicts over turf and power among other leaders so the organization can move forward? 4. Education How do you educate people who think they are already educated? 5. Motivation How do you move other leaders who already seem “to have everything” to do the right thing for the organization? 6. Representation How do you lead your organization’s outside constituents while still leading leaders inside? 7. Trust Creation How do you gain and keep other leaders’ trust, the vital capital that your own leadership depends on? Drawing on the author’s own leadership experience as well as his research in the corporate, political, academic, and professional worlds, Leading Leaders answers these questions with a clear set of effective rules for all managers to follow in successfully leading other leaders."

This book provides managers and executives with the necessary tools and strategies for leading a company or division buyout.Successful management buyouts (MBOs) are the pinnacle of business success today and a great way to earn an ever-increasing stake in the American dream. Buyout explores the details of the entire buyout process and empowers managers to seize their destiny and take charge.Managers learn how to:Find a company to purchaseDevelop a business planNegotiate with the sellerWin the "ground war" of due diligenceFind equity partners and negotiate the management deal with investorsRun the company after the MBO.Buyout offers real-life stories of people who pulled off out-of-this-world deals and became rich beyond their wildest expectations.

In this insider guide, former Harley-Davidson executive Dantar Oosterwal offers an exclusive look at how Harley-Davidson was able to adapt in an ever-changing world to stay on top and stay in existence.From near-extinction in the early eighties, Harley-Davidson rose to worldwide recognition and is still today one of the great, iconic American motorcycle brands. In this insider guide, former Harley-Davidson executive Dantar Oosterwal offers an exclusive look at how Harley-Davidson was able to adapt in an ever-changing world to stay on top and stay in existenceIn The Lean Machine, you will learn about their secret weapon and go-to formula for outstanding success as well as:the day-to-day transformation at Harley-Davidsontheir adapted Knowledge-Based Product Developmentidentifies universal change and improvement issues so that any company can incorporate thisRooted in Japanese productivity improvement techniques, the Knowledge-Based Product Development method helped Harley realize an unprecedented fourfold increase in throughput in half the time--powering annual growth of more than ten percent.The Lean Machine is part business journal, part analysis, and part step-by-step toolkit that will help companies in all industries achieve predictably excellent results.

This book is the tale not just of the two extraordinary men of its title but also of the formative decades of twentieth-century America, through two world wars and changes in business, industry, politics, and culture. You couldn’t find two more different men. Billy Durant was the consummate salesman, a brilliant wheeler-dealer with grand plans, unflappable energy, and a fondness for the high life. Alfred Sloan was the intellectual, an expert in business strategy and management, master of all things organizational. Together, this odd couple built perhaps the most successful enterprise in U.S. history, General Motors, and with it an industry that has come to define modern life throughout the world.In Billy, Alfred, and General Motors, business leaders and history buffs alike will discover:timeless lessons,cautionary tales,and motivational inspiration.The book includes vivid, warts-and-all portraits of the legends of the golden age of the automobile, from Henry Ford, Ransom Olds, and Charles Nash to the brilliant but uncredited David Dunbar Buick and Cadillac founder Henry Leland. The impact of Durant and Sloan on their contemporaries and their industry is matched only by the powerful legacy of their improbable and incredible partnership.Characters, events, and context -- all are brought skillfully and passionately to life in this meticulously researched and supremely readable book.

The true secret of high achievers is that they know how to find their "focal point" - the one thing they should do, at any given moment, to get the best possible results in each area of their lives.Bestselling author and motivational speaker Brian Tracy brings together the very best ideas on personal management into a simple, easy-to-use plan. Focal Point helps readers analyze their lives in seven key areas and shows them how to develop focused goals and plans in each.This best-selling guide provides timeless truths that have been discovered by the most effective people throughout the ages, answering questions like:In Focal Point, Tracy provides timeless truths that answers questions such as:How can I get control of my time and my life?How can I achieve maximum career success and still balance my personal life?How can I accelerate the achievement of all my goals?Focal Point shows you how to develop absolute clarity about what they want, and how they can achieve supreme satisfaction, both personally and professionally.

Learn the strategies for taking complete control of your time and using it to get more done, increasing productivity and income exponentially.One of the world’s premier business consultants and personal success experts, Brian Tracy has devoted more than 25 years to studying the most powerful time management practices used by the most successful people in every arena. Now, Tracy reveals his comprehensive system designed to help you grow your productivity and income in just a few weeksIn Time Power, you will learn how to:gain two more productive hours each daymake better, faster decisionsset clear goals and focus on higher-value activitiesmanage multitask jobs more efficientlyovercome the people problems that can sap their timeuse the five tools and techniques that will make them more productive, and much more!Overflowing with quick and effective time-saving strategies, Time Power lets you in on the secrets to being more productive, earning more money, and getting more satisfaction from life.

Discover how this leader-focused approach to understanding, managing, and maximizing organizational diversity and inclusion can increase employee retention and productivity.Workplace misunderstandings lead to lost revenue, lost time, and increased legal risk, thus your success in the marketplace will depend on our ability to collaborate across difference. Yet, inevitably, Us versus Them gaps disrupt workplace efficiency.In The Business of WE, cross-cultural consultant and diversity expert Laura Kriska will:Provide a practical roadmap for creating trust with others who are culturally different from yourselfHelp you create a WE mindset throughout your organization, bringing teams together into cohesive units.Walk you through the steps in fostering a workplace that is inclusive and respectful of all employees—one of the most critical, yet most widely mismanaged keys to success. Stakeholders are demanding real change, and nothing less than comprehensive solutions that lead to meaningful and lasting solutions will suffice.The Business of WE arrives just in time to help you stop Us versus Them gaps before they start and foster authentic connections across race, ethnicity, religion, age, and any other factor of identity to exponentially strengthen your entire organization.