Six Disciplines for Excellence provides six fundamental business principles that are specifically designed to help small businesses move beyond momentary success to attain enduring excellence. This book is not for those who are looking for a quick fix. Six Disciplines for Excellence is a long-term fitness program, not a fad diet. You will find: Information on creating a unique mission statement. Ways to deal with internal and external factors (such as equipment failure or an unfavorable stock market) that affect your business. Helpful charts, checklists, hints, tips, and graphs

The Speed of Trust begins within each of us personally, continues into our relationships, expands into our organizations, extends into our marketplace relationships, and ultimately encompasses our global society at large. Covey presents a road map to establish trust on every level, build character and competence, enhance credibility, and create leadership that inspires confidence

This book provides you with the strategies you need to boost profits and productivity while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Each chapter begins with a discussion of the key components of the strategies and at least one representative case study

The authors demonstrate in this breakthrough book how managers can build and employ competitive metrics that reveal their company's Customer Equity relative to their competitors

Powerful Proposals presents a step-by-step plan for creating informative, engaging documents that satisfy your clients' needs and feature the solutions your firm can provide

Black Enterprise brings to you the Guide to Starting Your Own Business, the one-stop definitive resource for everything today's entrepreneur needs to know to launch and run a solid business

The book shows you how to attract and keep great clients, while running a profitable and efficient business. It helps every knowledge - for-profit professional to maximize your most valuable client relationships, and to develop a personalized business development plan to mine the untapped potential in your business

In this provocative yet practical book, Fred Reichheld argues that loyalty provides the acid test for leadership in today's volatile business environment, and that most leaders deserve failing grades. In fact, the author is quick to highlight that less than half of today's employees believe their company deserves their loyalty

A soup-to-nuts guide for entrepreneurs, covering all areas of business creation, development, and management. The book includes a wealth of insightful tools and information, and success stories and interviews from entrepreneurs who have experienced the joys and frustrations of business ownership firsthand

With fewer than 200 pages, The Pilates Body is a slim volume, but every page contains valuable gems of information. The focus here is on mat work, which Siler points out was the initial movement system before the invention of the Reformer. Pilates history and the key elements to matwork are explained in short but comprehensive chapters before the exercises are introduced. The approach to the exercises is pure Pilates - sharp and meaningful, with all meat and no fluff. Each move is described step-by-step, and Siler offers a visual clue or two to help you get the form right, along with including an illustration to help you see what she means