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Fundamentals of Leisure Business Success: A Manager's Guide to Achieving Success in the Leisure and Recreation Industry (Haworth Marketing Resources)

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This book is a fascinating read, relating the story of a manager thrust into a run-down recreation club and transforming it into an effective organisation in two years. The location is Saudi Arabia, with significant religious constraints on western management and the substantially western hospital staff for whom the club is run. The author studied for his MBA after this experience and is therefore able to draw out the relationships between the management problems faced and the principles expounded in the management literature. It is therefore an interesting case-study and recommended reading for students struggling to link theory with practice.

Fundamentals of Leisure Business Success has recently been added as required reading at the Kozminski Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management in Warsaw, Poland (rated as the number one business school in Poland - for 6 years running - by Newsweek magazine). The students absolutely love its easy to read style as well as the international aspect of its content (the case study deals with a company that employs workers from over 72 countries).
All in all, FLBS has proven to be a reader-approved business book that dispenses with the grind of academic jargon and presents the study of business from a hands-on practitioner's viewpoint.

At last, a truthful, real-life management book that focuses on the lucrative recreation and leisure profession. This is a well written and fascinating read that marries practitioner oriented reality with academic theory. The results are most interesting. The text focuses on a leisure business turn-around that succeeded under the most difficult of circumstances. While becoming completely immersed in the story, the reader suddenly finds that the basics of modern business management have been grasped. Well done.