"Is your company drowning in management fads while wondering why business isn't better? Does your corporate culture make it tough to speak the truth, move forward, and seize opportunities? Wouldn't you love to improve day-to-day operations and employee morale without consultants, programs, and other expensive chicanery?" "Jack Trout, who knows a thing or two about how to grow and market a business, is in your corner and restless to help. This star consultant and champion of common sense has written the book that shows managers how to cope with complexities by focusing on essentials."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

It's high time for businesses to replace complexity with common sense, argues corporate guru Jack Trout in this impassioned yet practical guide. The best-selling author of the classic Positioning shows managers how to banish jargon, articulate their vision, simplify processes, and refocus on core issues all without expensive consultants and money-wasting programs. Filled with interviews and case studies (exemplary and otherwise), this book throws a life jacket of reality to readers who are drowning in management fads and wondering why business isn't better.

Presents guidelines that show managers how to cope with complexities by focusing on essentials in areas such as management, leadership, marketing, long-term planning, and motivation.

All the business wisdom in the world isn't worth a dime if it doesn't produce results. 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 with TurboStrategy. ""I call it TurboStrategy,"" says Tracy,""because it is an intensive, fast, short, sharp, effective way of setting and implementing any strategy."" Now 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. Readers will discover the practical techniques that the most successful businesses use to thrive, even in the toughest markets. They'll also learn how to: * Maintain flexibility, the key to dealing with an ever-changing business landscape * Articulate their business's vision, values, mission, purpose, and goals—both short- and long-term *""Draw a line through the past"" and become their own turnaround specialists * Hire the best people --and motivate them to excellence Through 21 strategy points and dozens of examples, stories, and quotations from world-class thinkers and corporate leaders, Brian Tracy will show any company how to turbocharge its strategy and get its business firing on all cylinders.

Leaders are now recognizing that product design is the primary driver of success. They are making it their primary target in their quest for delivering customers more value at less cost. Now Bart Huthwaite, founder of the Institute for Lean Design and recognized as America's Lean Design Coach, show you how, step-by-step, to create lean products and services right from the start. He reveals success secrets and a road map for integrating lean design with six sigma design for powerful results

A new product, a new service, a new company, a new division, a new anything - where there's a will, Kawasaki shows the way with his essential steps to launching one's dreams.