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Instant Turnaround! is the ultimate guide to productivity, profits and your own prosperity. Times may be tough, but for team leaders, supervisors, managers and executives who know how to tap into the discretionary effort of their employees, their productivity and profits soar. The key is to get people excited about coming to work and applying every bit of energy, creativity and passion they have toward performing their jobs instead of doing only what they have to do to in order to stay employed. Instant Turnaround! presents a four-step process that will show you how to make this happen in any kind of business organization.
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The best leadership advice for creating a great organization comes from simple truths. Instant Turnaround is full of these truths. Harry Paul and Ross Reck nail what it takes to get people excited about coming to work and working hard. Read this book.
Instant Turnaround!' offers sure-fire solutions to boost any businesses' bottom-line, via the most powerful connection ever created: the human connection."
One of the biggest challenges facing businesses today is getting people excited about coming to work and working hard every single day. In this absorbing new book Instant Turnaround, leadership gurus Paul and Reck give you the specifics on how to make this happen—in a way that grabs you from page one. Ignore this message at your peril.
This is a great guide and a great reminder for managers at any level in any organization. The story line pulls the reader in and enables him or her to gain a deeper understanding of the basic rules for keeping great talent committed and energized.
I just finished rereading your book. Once I get started, I just can’t stop myself. This book is SO-O-O-O-O GOOD! The addition of the Nuggets is a good one! It will keep those reading that feel they have to have everything structured. They’re also good for future reference. The three items you added at the end are also good. It is always good to have your ideas listed. And “A Note for Upper Level Managers” puts the pressure where it belongs. I am hoping your book is a GREAT success!! It reminds me so much of Gast Manufacturing, the company my grandfather founded. It started out as a small local manufacturing company and today it’s a world-wide dealer of rotary engines. They never needed a labor union, because my Uncle Bill, the CEO, spent lots of time on the factory floor talking with employees.
OMG! I got home at about 5ish tonight, ate dinner, then sat and read your manuscript (yes, I know it's a Friday night and I should be out, but I started to read it and I couldn't put it down)! I loved it! My mind was racing with so many ideas and thought on how I can implement everything you talked about. I thought about giving this to everyone from our CEO at our headquarters building to our crew members. I'm super excited for it and can't wait to see it on the shelves!
Thank you so much for the manuscript. Your timing was impeccable as we started a very similar program with our Mobile Mini sales staff last Monday. As I read the manuscript last Sunday I skeptical about seeing immediate results. But you are right. The payoff was immediate. Mobile Mini experienced a very successful week but what is more important, we had fun too. The younger folks responded right away. The "old timers" (like me) took a little longer, but by the end of the week everyone was onboard.
What a great message and great story! WOW - you sure can weave a message in cleverly (and a good message at that). I also liked how you repeat the main ideas several times so that it makes an impression and it's hard to forget (the 4 Be's, etc.). The story is good, flows easily and the message is sound.
Thank you so much for sending across the draft of your new book. This is exactly the kind of business book I like reading. No unnecessary text or theories; the parable style of writing works best in today’s world for a majority of the people I know.
I have read your draft. Once, I started, I was engaged and didn't want to delay finishing it! When I started full-time with John Deere, I started as a supervisor of our engine assembly line. I frequently walked around with a smile on my face. I had guys working for me that said my smile would go away as I worked longer. I consider that my challenge otherwise, and continued to tell them that we should all have some fun at work.
Your new book is not only a step-by-step ‘how-to’ motivate employees and change from low to high morale, but it teaches how to prevent morale from going downhill in the first place. If those ‘B’s are consistently used in the company, then there are less chances of having unhappy employees. The book is easy to read and it is packed full of valuable information. |
In The News
Publishers Weekly
March 9, 2009 (PDF)
In this compact and accessible business parable, Paul and Reck (coauthors of Revved!) claim that savvy managers can turn any company around by creating a happy, positive workplace and valuing employees. While empowering employees is a straightforward concept, according to the authors, most managers “don’t live it.” Lessons in making this seemingly effortless turnaround are recounted through the story of an ambitious HR director at a distressed magazine publishing company. With the guidance of a successful entrepreneur, she revitalizes productivity and amazes her skeptical, numbers-oriented boss. While elementary in tone and message, a simple wisdom emerges that can be understood and shared by any manager in any industry. In dismal economic times, this small and genial fable provides the hopeful message that it is still the individual human spirit and cooperation that propels innovation and productivity.
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