MISSION statements

MISSION statements

 
Awesomely Simple Spence, John John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2009 Business Strategy, Leadership, Productivity

Any business will claim to have a vision for itself; it will also claim to have top talent, robust communications, and extreme customer focus. Likely though, its management gives itself higher marks in those areas than...

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Lead with Purpose Baldoni, John AMACOM , 2012 Leadership

John Baldoni, author and leadership consultant, believes that “when organizations succeed, it is because they know what they do and why they do it. We say they have ‘purpose.’” In Lead with Purpose,...

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The Customer Rules Beemer, C. Britt | Shook, Robert L. McGraw-Hill , 2009 Business Strategy, Customer Focus

C. Britt Beemer and Robert L. Shook’s The Customer Rules presents the argument that the world’s most successful companies are those with an unwavering commitment to customer satisfaction. According to...

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The Domino Effect Vlcek Jr., Donald J. | Davidson, Jeffrey P. Business One/Irwin , 1992 Business Biographies, Human Resources, Leadership

The work holds a treasure trove of successful business practices, and always explains, in detail, how to adapt distribution innovations to other types of businesses. Vlcek suggests a seven-step process, known as the...

 
 
The Northbound Train Albrecht, Karl AMACOM , 1994 Business Strategy, Leadership

A process for formulating a corporate vision and direction, and communicating that vision in a compelling way to everyone in the organization. Albrecht uses the metaphor of riding a train as a focusing concept for...

 
 
Vision Management SANNO Management (Editor) Productivity Press , 1992 Management

The product of 10 years of management brainstorming at SANNO University in Japan, Vision Management examines the shift away from traditional linear management to a multilevel implementation of...