Prefect Tool for Benchmarking Your Company
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As a direct mailer, web and print catalog company, we are always seeking out benchmarks in our industry to compare if our company is operational sound.  This book covers all those questions and gives you good information on how to do it better.  I give this book 5 stars for tackling such a comprehensive amount of information in a concise and understandable format.
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The Company Culture Challenge is a must for every business. The book is organized so you can easily implement the contents as an action plan. With many books, you enjoy reading them but then have to figure out how to use the information. David hands you the plan. Thank you David.
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I only review business books, because fiction and literature, I believe, is subjective and a personal choice.  That said, this is a must have in your professional arsenal.  It ties easily into other organizational development programs.  It is a great tool when developing change or performance management plans.
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Michael has a very clear way of showing you how to change the results you get in your business using your intuition.  The tools he teaches are easy to use, they're fun and effective!  If you're not using your intuition in your business, you need to be!  I use the What Would It Take questions and I'm seeing great results with my clients - not just any clients, but my ideal clients!  Get your copy right away and begin having the business you've always wanted!  You're going to LOVE this book and you'll want to read it repeatedly!
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This book has made my business better! I know now how to step back as a boss and look at things through a different lens. We give this to every prime job applicant and use it frequently to better our teams!
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Gerber's book is filled with sensible concepts and ideas for creating a solid foundation for your small business.  I'm just getting started and I am able to visualize the scope, breadth, depth and variety of activities my business will entail and challenges we'll encounter.  A great coaching tool!  THANK YOU E-MYTH!!
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Fantastic!! I manage a small manufacturing company and we're always struggling to accurately evaluate our production process and meet deadlines.  We don't seem to be able to create routines or habits to analyze our throughput and this book really gives us the tools to change that! And the novel format made it an easy ready!!  Every manufacturer, large and small, can really benefit from reading Kevin Kohls' innovative approach.
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How often do we encounter an educational book that makes you feel as if the author is earnestly speaking to you step by step to make sure your learning is following the line of teaching?  This book is one of those rare books.  This book teaches "what, so what, and now what" of benchmarking step by step.  If you want to know how well your organization is doing, one of the best ways to find out is to compare yourself against other organizations.  The book explains  the differences between strategic, operational, and business benchmarking, and contains a wealth of organizational examples for each to be able to learn both deductively and inductively.
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As a first time, web-based, small business owner I have found JP's road map invaluable.  Clearly written and concise it provides checklists of tasks as a reminder of what else I can do better as I take my company to EXCELLENCE. His enthusiasm, commitment and persistence are infectious.

I've completed my first read-through and am now beginning the in-depth review and execution of a number of items.  Thank you JP for this terrific guide!
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We have a small business and for awhile were not conducting performance appraisals but decided we should.  I was at a loss as to how to conduct effective complete appraisals and this was just what I needed.  I have since used it every quarter for that last 2 years.
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This book is awesome. Love the StoryBrand framework, and Im already using it to clarify my company message and that of my customers. The book was easy to read, and the framework is easy to follow.
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I am a 23 year veteran developer who got behind the technology curve and ended up in management.  Having been self-employed, my people skills were pretty good, but, having been a loner for the most part, my management skills were nil.  To the rescue was the book Managing the Test People.  The Perfect Beast is the metaphor for an organization charged with testing developed software. The beast must be congenial on the outside and tenacious on the inside in order to accomplish its task.  The book is concise yet thorough in the coverage of management topics related to creating and nurturing the beast.  It has an easy reading style that makes it ideal for a management neophyte like myself and could easily apply to the management of any technical organization.
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Pefect book for helping write comments on my employees reviews and even for my own.
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Over my career I have worked at medium/large companies  where I have been engaged with the integration of small startups into these larger companies, this book would have been an invaluable tool to hand out to every one of those startups.
It is concise, factual and provides a simple menu driven approach to improving any business process in a company - from product design, product ramp into volume, forecasting, marketing, to  hiring and retention.. anything that you can identify as a process that needs to be improved.
This will be a book that you read quickly the first time, then you will spend a career using it.
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I used this book to start a company that I've been working on.

I like that it is laid out in an intuitive way and it's great to reference when you're not sure about specifics in different topics (e.g. accounting, taxes, employees).

It's definitely targeted at a general audience so it doesn't have a *ton* of detailed information for specific industries, but it most certainly gives you a springboard to jump from. For any information that wasn't detailed enough (especially when I needed more information for my specific industry) it at least gave me a few clues on what to search for on Google.

All in all, this book definitely helped me to figure out all the "stuff" I needed to do, tips on how to run my business, and giving me some cool ideas!
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This book is a fantastic tool to assist employees to align their efforts with performance goals of the organization.  Rather than rely on numeric ratings, the book provides a step by step guide that avoids recency bias and unhelpful rating systems.  Having worked in several organizations, including ACDI/VOCA, AchieVe was such a breath of fresh air to assist and mentor employees to reach professional and organizational goals.  This book will help individuals and organizations take these important ideas and implement them easily.  - Amanda Hilligas
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Your book is a valuable asset for companies that want to put their customers first! What I particularly like about the book is that it makes customer centricity so easily accessible, with lots of practical ideas on how to implement it in your business. The little cartoons make this book fun to read! By reading the 50 weekly actions, any business can learn how to put customers at the heart of their business. A must have for today's business owner! Well done, Denyse :)