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Less is more:

how great companies improve productivity without layoffs
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Penguin Group USA, Dec 30, 2003 - Business & Economics - 249 pages
In an age when every business needs to achieve more with fewer resources, Jason Jennings offers the key to ramping up productivity. In this BusinessWeek bestseller, he identifies the worlds most productive companies and reveals their secretsnone of which, surprisingly, include layoffs. The companies he features are truly astonishing, from Ryanair, which generates three times more profit per employee than the legendary Southwest Airlines, to Nucor, a steel firm with annual growth of seventeen percent for the past thirty-one years and the highest paid workers in the industry.

Drawing on these and other amazing companies, Jennings presents his readers with solid advice on how to streamline businesses, eliminate waste, and inspire greatness within a workforce.

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I really enjoyed reading this book. The fundamental concepts covered in this book are almost exactly same of Good to Great book by Jim Collins even though Jason Jennings evaluated different set of companies except Nucor.
This book will teach you how to build a culture instead of business model. You will also learn how to create a big objective (others call it vision), develop process and set values to accomplish the big objective, motive the team to work towards the big objective. Jason Jennings constantly making arguments on focusing on getting the job done (others call execution) by aligning the entire management team towards.
Russell Sarder
Chairman and CEO
NetCom Information Technology
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User Review  - Tom Darrow - Goodreads

Many modern CEOs would benefit from reading this book. It has a lot of good ideas about making long-term productivity in the economy, not just short term gains through lay-offs. Read full review

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Contents

A Simple BIG Objective
3
The Hard Work Begins
21
The Truth
39
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About the author (2003)

Jason Jennings, consultant and author of the bestselling Its Not the Big That Eat the Small... Its the Fast That Eat the Slow, has been named one of the worlds top twenty-five keynote speakers. Visit his website at www.jennings-solutions.com.

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