Kevin and Jackie Freiberg’s previous book, Nuts!: Southwest Airline’s Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success, described the unconventional leadership that made Southwest an airline industry dynamo. In GUTS!, the Freibergs look at twenty-five gutsy and extraordinarily successful businesses and introduce the chief executives who are creating a new corporate ethos that blows the doors off business-as-usual. Drawing on five years of research, the Freibergs provide a behind-the-scenes look at these intensely focused, passionate, and unconventional leaders and their companies. Among them: • James Blanchard, CEO of Synovus Financial, a financial services giant with more than 16 billion dollars in assets • Roy Spence, Jr., President of GSD&amp;M Advertising, which AdWeek magazine named Southwest Agency of the Year seven times • James Goodnight of SAS, a world leader in intelligence software Although the leaders in the book represent a wide-range of industries, they share a common vision: They see business as a heroic cause and understand that good leadership isn’t a matter of position, but of influence. They reject hierarchical rules, rituals, and expectations, and have replaced in-the-box management with a culture based on passion and innovation. They regard their employees not as “human resources,” but as individuals with unique gifts and talents. And make everyone in the company responsible for the company’s brand and culture. An exciting follow-up to Nuts!, which has sold nearly 500,000 copies in hardcover and paperback, GUTS! proves that it is possible to have fun, live your values, and still make money.

Guts!: Companies that Blow the Doors Off Business-As-Usual

Business & Money

Freiberg, Kevin

Freiberg, Jackie

Management & Leadership

Doubleday Business

According to Ken Blanchard, ''I love CAUSE! It's all about people and organizations who feel called to make a difference—to serve a purpose far beyond the typical bottom line. The book's design is a feast for the eyes and its message is food for the soul. Read this book and serve at a higher level.'' These days if your company isn't tied to a heroic cause, your business may be doomed. Companies that define themselves as cause-oriented stand out! They have better employee engagement, customer loyalty, and ultimately, stronger profitability and growth. CAUSE! documents a fresh approach to leadership and collaboration that drives business success in companies as diverse as TOMS, Lululemon, Virgin, Southwest Airlines and PepsiCo. And CAUSE! takes an in-depth look at how National Life Group, a financial services firm, built its culture and brand around a CAUSE to stand out in the industry's sea of sameness. According to Peter Economy, The Leadership Guy, INC.COM, ''There are few business books that truly have the power to change the world, but CAUSE! is one of them. In this book, Kevin and Jackie Freiberg clearly show how having a heroic cause attracts great talent, while motivating people to bring their best selves to work. Do your organization a huge favor and read this book right now!'' And, according to Chip R. Bell, ''CAUSE! is more than a clear blueprint for success; it is also a poignant design for organizational nobleness. Read it and get ready to have your perspective and practice redirected toward the soul of excellence.''

Cause!: A Business Strategy for Standing Out in a Sea of Sameness

Business Culture

freibergs.com

When Herb Kelleher set up SouthWest Airlines back in the 1970's no one within the industry would take him, or it, seriously. Now, more than 25 years later, everyone is being forced to take note. For the first time the story of this remarkable venture is revealed in full. In what has been described as "a crash course for management", the Freibergs recount the events and cast which have shaped the culture and character of ths legendary airline and shows what a little bit of ingenuity can do.

Nuts!

Orion Business

Twenty-five years ago, Herb Kelleher reinvented air travel when he founded Southwest Airlines, where the planes are painted like killer whales, a typical company maxim is "Hire people with a sense of humor," and in-flight meals are never served--just sixty million bags of peanuts a year. By sidestepping "reengineering," "total quality management," and other management philosophies and employing its own brand of business success, Kelleher's airline has turned a profit for twenty-four consecutive years and seen its stock soar 300 percent since 1990. Today, Southwest is the safest airline in the world and ranks number one in the industry for service, on-time performance, and lowest employee turnover rate; and Fortune magazine has twice ranked Southwest one of the ten best companies to work for in America. How do they do it? With unlimited access to the people and inside documents of Southwest Airlines, authors Kevin and Jackie Freiberg share the secrets behind the greatest success story in commercial aviation. Read it and discover how to transfer the Southwest inspiration to your own business and personal life.

Nuts!: Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Crown Currency

Guts!: Companies that Blow the Doors off Business-as-usual

DOUBLEDAY

DSN Do Something Now! Three simple letters. Three simple words that could change your organization—change your life. The scarcest resource in organizations right now is not money or talent or ideas or power; it’s people who DO, people who add value and get things done. This book will inspire Dreamers to become Doers. Everyone wants to add value and this book shows you how.

Do Something Now!

Skills

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Leaders are always in search of more… This book is an unapologetic kick in the butt, it is a reminder that you are a POI—Person of Impact and you have a pocket of influence. To be an unforgettable positive force in your world —a leader—It is imperative to expand your will, work and wonder. These 12 strategies will accelerate your journey and inspire you to be more intentional about: WHAT you do, HOW you do it and, WHO you are. POI—Three simple letters, three simple words that will change your life, your family, your organization, your legacy, your leadership brand… POI will change your impact!

Be A Person of Impact: 12 Strategies to be the CEO of Your Future

This book reveals for the first time the secrets behind the success of Southwest Airlines, one of the world’s most successful and talked about companies. All businesses can learn form the unusual strategies employed by Southwest Airlines which provides and excellent model for managers who want to motivate, liberate and appreciate their staff, gaining excellent returns as a result.

Biography & History

Texere

You are DESIGNED to choose and DEFINED by your choices.
In front of you are seven choices waiting to be made. Whether you are the leader or those being lead, these choices will determine the quality of your life and the significance of your contribution to the world in which you work.
In BOOM the Freiberg's have distilled 20 years of collective wisdom into 7 essential choices that cause culture, service, success, and business to BOOM
Choice #1: Be a Player
Choice #2: Be Accountable
Choice #3: Choose Service Over Self-Interest
Choice #4: Focus Forward
Choice #5: Play to Your Genius
Choice #6: Get It Done
Choice #7: Risk More - Gain More
These 7 choices are your wake-up call to freedom, and it's your invitation to create a community of like-minded people who - together - will create organizations that can blow the doors off business as usual and cure the Dead People Working™ syndrome
Drs. Kevin and Jackie Freiberg are two of the most influential voices on the professional-speaking circuit today. Their mission: to create corporate cultures where impassioned people exercise the freedom to make a difference and change the world! The Freibergs have coauthored the international bestseller NUTS! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success and GUTS! Companies that Blow the Doors off Business-As-Usual. They have been interviewed by CBS's 60 Minutes and appeared on CNBC and the CBS Morning News for their insights on the links between gutsy leaders, passionate employees, cultures of accountability, and loyal customers.

Boom!

Thomas Nelson Publishing

Boom!: 7 Choices For Blowing the Doors off Business-As-Usual

Make the choice to become truly indispensable. For the last twenty years, Drs. Kevin and Jackie Freiberg have worked as performance consultants around the globe. In Boom! they draw upon their practical, hands-on experience to show how to:    Become indispensable on the job Engage in work that really matters Stop making excuses for our circumstances Not wait around for others to rescue us Step up to the plate of ownership and accountability Become the people God intended us to be It's your wake-up call to freedom, and it's your invitation to create a community of like-minded people who, together, will create organizations that can move mountains.

Boom!: 7 Choices for Blowing the Doors Off Business-As-Usual

Thomas Nelson

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Guts!: Companies that Blow the Doors Off Business-As-Usual

Cause!: A Business Strategy for Standing Out in a Sea of Sameness

Nuts!

Nuts!: Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success

Guts!: Companies that Blow the Doors off Business-as-usual

Do Something Now!

Be A Person of Impact: 12 Strategies to be the CEO of Your Future

Nuts!: Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success

Boom!

Boom!: 7 Choices for Blowing the Doors Off Business-As-Usual