An extraordinarily powerful process that has proven to deliver immediate results for some of the country's most admired business leaders: higher productivity, improved quality at lower cost, reduced employee turnover, and superior financial performance. With stories of vision, endurance, faith and failure, Destination Profit delivers dozens of exercises and key business examples that lay out step-by-step how to apply the authors' unique 4-A Process-awareness, alignment, accountability, adaptation-to create a people-centered organization that is productive, profitable, and a sustained competitive leader. Readers will discover that this process begins with destination as the goal that organizations and individuals within them want to reach-their own best workplace.
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Any manager will quickly learn valuable steps to get their department--or entire organization--on the right road to profitability. -- T&D Magazine, July 2006
Contains insight from interviews with executives. Examples show that companies can thrive when employees are at heart of business excellence. -- Soundview Executive Book Summaries, September 2006
Contains insight from interviews with executives. Examples show that companies can thrive when employees are at heart of business excellence. -- Soundview Executive Book Summaries, September 2006
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Learn from the leaders: Southwest Airlines and JetBlue to S.C. Johnson and Sallie Mae. Drawing inspiration and insight from exclusive interviews with senior executives at today's most exemplary companies, including many perennial favorites on Fortune's list of the "100 Best Companies to Work For," DESTINATION PROFIT delivers a fresh approach to business excellence that places people squarely at the center of the drive toward profitability and sustained competitive advantage.
From two undisputed experts who helped link people to profitability at Southwest Airlines and Revlon comes this inspiring yet practical look at how to transform the popular "best company" ideal into a toolbox for everyday use. Authors Cawood and Bailey profile 13 extraordinary companies and their stories of vision, endurance, faith, and failure. With dozens of exercises and key business examples, they lay out a step-by-step pathway to profitability that is based on their 4-A process of awareness, alignment, accountability, and adaptation: chart a steady course toward your destination, connect people to the business through shared goals and accountability, and build in flexibility so that individuals and teams across the organization can adapt seamlessly every step along the way.
Copublished with the American Society for Training & Development, DESTINATION PROFIT makes the engaged people = enriched profits link clear and actionable for any executive or manager dedicated to creating a workplace culture that connects people to the organization to improve productivity, reduce turnover, and deliver unbeatable customer loyalty, chart-topping growth, and superior financial performance.
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Easy, fun and entertaining read.
Every manager should read this book. So often, managers are caught up in the product or service, that they forget about the people delivering those things. The main point is that the one thing your competitors cannot copy is your workforce. Maximize this, and you will achieve the competitive advantage you're looking for. Scott Cawood was the keynote speaker at a SHRM event I attended, where he gave everyone a copy of this book. Not only was he fun and entertaining during the event, afterwords, that same humor was found in this book. While some points seem like "no brainers", they all get you thinking and the anecdotes that accompany them are helpful.
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