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Everyone in business wants to increase productivity
-- more output and less input, lower costs and higher profits.
And no needle's proven harder to budge than the one on the
"productivity meter."
That's why Jason Jennings, coauthor of the
worldwide bestseller It's Not the Big That Eat the Small...
It's the Fast That Eat the Slow, took on the assignment
to identify the world's most productive companies and find
out exactly what makes them models of productivity.
- In the generally troubled airline industry,
Europe's leading discount airline, Ryanair, generates
three times more profit per employee than the
"legendary" Southwest Airlines.
- In the low-margin discount furniture
business, Swedish superstore chain IKEA creates fifty
times more profit per employee than the industry average.
- In the bitterly competitive discount
retail business, where giants like Kmart have fallen by
the wayside, The Warehouse of New Zealand is making double
the profit per dollar of sales achieved by industry leader
Wal-Mart.
- In America's most troubled industry --
steel -- Nucor has never laid anyone off. Its workers
are the highest paid in the industry, and the company
has achieved annual revenue growth of 17 percent for thirty-one
years.
Jason Jennings and his team of researchers
traveled the globe, researching thousands of businesses,
to find the world's most productive companies. Then they
went deep inside, uncovering the secrets that allow these
companies to be dramatically more productive, often without
reductions in head count. These productivity champions defy
all the fixed rules and turn conventional wisdom upside
down.
Fast, snappy, edgy, and irreverent, Less
Is More is a virtual how-to manual, with nuts-and-bolts
advice on how the best companies in the world
- focus everyone on getting the job done
- streamline everything
- map every process and eliminate waste
- build cultures, not bureaucracies
- keep everyone moving in the same direction
Less Is More is more than an idea;
it's a powerful tool that can change the way you do business.
Jason Jennings, a consultant and author,
has been named one of the world's top twenty-five keynote
speakers. His previous book, on the world's fastest companies,
achieved worldwide bestseller status and has been translated
into twenty-three languages. When not traveling the globe
on business assignments or adventure travel, he and his
family live in Tiburon, California.
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