Business operations
The Six Common Business Failures
Business Security
Without Warning
Building Business Value
OOPS! 13 Management Practices That Waste Time and Money
| September 24, 2009
The Six Common Small Business Failures
and how to avoid them
Frederick Jones
2009
ISBN 9780578008592
This is quite a hard hitting book. His chapter on traits of an Unfit Leader should scare a lot of folks. His six items are:
- Poor planning
- Misalignment
- Lack of dedication
- Laziness
- Untruthfulness
- Arrogance
The author has been there and done it. This is not an academic book. Check out www.donotfail.info
Business Security
How to protect your small business against fraud, debtors, theft, workplace violence and more!
T.A. Brown
2008
ISBN9780974343891
This is a collection of articles by experts in each of the fields. I was taken aback by the thoroughness of the writers in such a small book. All meat and potatoes.
Without Warning
Breakthrough strategies for solving the silent problems taking aim at your organization
Rodney N. Johnson
2009
ISBN 1592982743
This book outlines a method to quickly help you get your company aligned, by eliminating the silent problems. By a generous use of examples and stories the author helps you identify your own silent problems. Very useful quick book. Check out www.withoutwarningcoach.com
The Adversity Paradox
An unconventional guide to achieving uncommon business success
J. Barry Griswell & Bob Jennings
2009
ISBN 9780312385552
Writers like Harvey Mackay have firsthand knowledge of 'the adversity paradox'. They have found that the knowledge they gained from overcoming adversity played a crucial role in their success trajectories, so they now consider adversity a friend. Griswell is no stranger to this. With lots of real life examples – it is not a short cut book, but rather a lifetime of insights book. If you are facing a tough time, embrace the experience and it will make you stronger.
Building Business Value
How to command a premium price for your midsized company
Martin O'Neil
2009
9780982056905
Martin O’Neill shows you how to focus a leadership team on the challenge of building value over the long haul, so when it comes time to exit, your company can ask for – and get – that superpremium price. ROThumb? Never stop thinking about tomorrow.
OOPS! 13 Management Practices That Waste Time and Money
2009
ISBN 9780937100172
The author believes that these 13 are a waste of time (and she pulls no punches):
- Employee of the month
- Stretch goals
- Performance appraisals
- Ranking
- Rewarding things a dead man can do
- Salary and hourly pay
- “You did a good job, but”
- The sandwich
- Overvaluing smart talented people
- The budget process
- Promoting people nobody likes
- Downsizing
Mergers, acquisitions and other reorgs.
She also presents what you can do instead. I believe her. A good read.
