The world of auto racing is thrilling, energizing, and runs at a break-neck speed. But it also requires incredible accuracy, nuance, and impeccable performance to ensure a win. These same qualities are essential for every manager who wants to build a sustainable, profitable business. Known as "The Management 500", this is the real-world race that business managers compete in to generate significant growth each year for three consecutive years. "The Management 500" provides practical management lessons from the history of professional auto racing. With insights and stories from some of the most successful people in Formula 1, IndyCar Series, and NASCAR over the past 60 years, consultant Dan Coughlin helps busy managers who want to rev up their skills in areas like leadership, teamwork, strategy, branding, problem-solving, dealing with change and innovation. From Enzo Ferrari to Kyle Busch, and from the Indianapolis 500 to the Daytona 500, this book has taken invaluable tips from the fast, furious world of racing and shows how every business manager can combine passion with precision to compete and win in today's competitive business world.
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“…offers practical lessons in management strategies gathered from the history of professional auto racing.” -- National Speed Sport magazine
“…remarkable example of employing a sports metaphor to impart valuable lessons about business leadership…as enjoyable as it is instructive.” -- Fort Worth Star Telegram
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The world of auto racing is thrilling, energizing, and runs at break-neck speed. But it also requires incredible accuracy, shrewd strategy, and impeccable performance to ensure a win. These same qualities are essential for every manager who wants to build and sustain a profitable business.
The Management 500 provides practical management lessons drawn from the history of professional auto racing. With insights and stories from some of the most successful people in Formula 1, IndyCar Series, and NASCAR over the past 60 years including Lee White, President of Toyota Racing Development and Ed Laukes, head of Toyota Motorsports, consultant Dan Coughlin shows busy managers how they can rev up their skills in areas like leadership, teamwork, strategy, branding, problem-solving, change management and innovation, and get their company running in high gear. From Enzo Ferrari to Kyle Busch, and from the Indianapolis 500 to the Daytona 500, this inspiring book takes invaluable tips from the fast, furious world of racing and shows how every business manager can combine passion with precision to compete and win in today’s competitive business world.
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Even if you are not a fan of auto racing, you will find enormously practical advice you can use right away to generate sustainable, profitable growth. Anyone in business today understands the need for new tools to handle the speed of change. Like a top-notch driver in a finely tuned race car, Dan Coughlin's The Management 500 gives your business the high-octane strategies you need to win the daily race for profit and growth.
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I saw Dan in March at a speaking engagement in Novi, Michigan. After his presentation, I was sure I found the right person to write the foreword in my book, Navigating Through the Risks of Credit Card Processing. His presentation on customer service and creating value was great.
I wanted to see more of Dan's style so I bought The Management 500 and was very much impressed with the concept. If you have ever watched even part of a NASCAR race, you know how critical every second is in the pit stop. A race can be won or lost because of a pit stop. Just as a single action in a business can bring a success or failure. By learning how racing teams prepare for a race and then applying that knowledge to how a business is run is brilliant. It emphasises the need for detailed planning and remembering that every cog in the organization needs to be the best it can be. I encourage business owners and managers alike to read and apply the information Dan shares. Bill Pirtle Author of Navigating Through the Risks of Credit Card Processing
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The Management 500 uses a simple and practical analogy of business and auto racing to help managers at all levels improve their business performance. Coughlin provides a solid foundation of how managers should prepare from a strategic perspective all the way through mental and physical preparation. The book is full of real-world racing examples and how their insights can better prepare managers to meet the many different challenges they face. As a business owner, this book gave me new skills and key questions and exercises to apply them. Highly recommended for managers at all levels to throw their business into 5th gear.
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