Less Is More

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Penguin, Nov 11, 2002 - Business & Economics - 272 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 world’s most productive companies and reveals their secrets—none 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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Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Introduction
FOCUS
A Simple BIG Objective
The Hard Work Begins
STREAMLINE
The Truth
Destroy the Bureaucracy and Make It Simple
Get Rid of the Wrong Executives and Managers Fast
Systematize Everything
Continuous Improvement
Compensation
DIGITIZE
The Plugin Myth
MOTIVATE
Keeping Everyone on the Same Productivity Page
A Lean Spirit

No Layoffs
WTGBRFDT?
The Real Financial Drivers
EPILOGUE
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Jason Jennings has spent more than twenty years teaching businesspeople how to build great organizations.  He gives more than sixty keynote speeches every year and is the author of two previous business bestsellers: Less Is More and It's Not the Big That Eat the Small, It's the Fast that Eat the Slow.  He lives near San Francisco.