In this brilliantly conceived, practical book for managers, Dan Thomas shows how general managers can take advantage of core management processes-what he terms management's five freedoms -- that make the most difference between success and failure. Thomas, who has been an entrepreneur, educator, consultant, and manager, has devoted over twenty years to studying the strategy, structure, and systems of successful companies. He explains how managers can exercise their five freedoms to choose the right business, create the right strategy, implement the right systems, design the right organizational structure, and get the right people. The single most important freedom for management, Thomas argues, is to choose the right business. He suggests that there are great businesses and lousy ones, and managers should choose a business with growth, profit, and diversification potential to drive shareholder wealth. Next, Thomas shows how, even in those businesses with a lower potential for success, creating the right strategy can produce superior results. Companies such as Wal-Mart in the otherwise faltering discount retail industry and Southwest Airlines in the ailing passenger airline business are cases in point. Management's third freedom, developing the right systems, is illustrated by examples from successful companies such as Frito-Lay, and unsuccessful companies such as Micropolis, that have employed different types of information, incentive, and decision-making systems. Thomas discusses management's tendency to look for "quick fixes" through changes in organization structure that promise overnight success. He explains that realigning a company's organizational structure, the fourth freedom, must be based directly on the strategies being employed in the business, not the latest fad. The fifth freedom-getting the right people -- is perhaps the biggest concern of top management. Thomas illustrates how general managers who have exercised their first four freedoms effectively do not have much difficulty in getting and keeping the right people. By providing techniques that allow managers to assess a person's skills and motivation, Thomas enables managers to exercise their fifth freedom by matching these assets to the business, its strategy, systems, and structure.

Business Sense: Exercising Management's Five Freedoms

Business & Money

Thomas, Dan

Management & Leadership

Free Press

Roughing It Easy 2

Nonfiction: cooking on camping trips

Roughing it Easy 2

Warner

One galaxy's heroes are another's villains, and two galaxies' worth of them are in head-on collision - with the Avengers in the middle of a war whose repercussions will haunt them for years! The events that split and shook the Earth's Mightiest Heroes to their foundations end here, and intergalactic boundaries aren't the only lines being drawn! Plus: The tri-galaxy war devastates the Earth far more literally when we see "What If the Avengers Lost Operation: Galactic Storm?"! Collects Iron Man #279, Thor #446, Captain America #400-401, Avengers West Coast #82, Quasar #34-35, Wonder Man #9, Avengers #347, What If? #55-56.

Avengers: Galactic Storm, Vol. 2

THOMAS, ROY

DEFALCO, TOM

Gruenwald. Mark

Kaminski, Len

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Marvel Enterprises

Nurtured for Fraud is a fast paced, suspense-filled novel that, on a higher level, will leave you satisfied that you've learned something new. You'll discover the importance of the first six years of life, not only for development of intelligence, but also for the creation of debilitating neuroses. You'll learn why your utility's rates will never be entirely fair, and how power can pervert our American systems of regulation and justice.

Nurtured for Fraud

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Collins Mountain Pr

Bad karma kickback...from beyond the grave! His fiancée dead from a botched "boob job," his buddy dying from a drug overdose, Royce McCulloch jumps into his Porsche, speeds east out of Los Angeles and never looks back. Now, ten years later, Royce has re-invented himself as a civic-minded Baltimore business leader and stalwart family man. The ex-junk bond promoter has a rewarding job helping minority entrepreneurs establish themselves, and a loving wife and stepson. Royce thought it was smooth sailing, until Monica Pleshette, a well-endowed, flesh-eating female zombie and Cliff Wells, her psychopathic boyfriend turned Hollywood vampire, invade Royce's smug life and threaten his life and family. Suddenly Royce's sleazy past catches up with him, and he must defend his family against demons who will stop at nothing to destroy the people he loves--and drag him back to hell with them. Now Royce is sharpening stakes and saying his prayers. It's playtime in the erotic and deadly arena of the undead, and a bloody reckoning is at hand.

The Reckoning

Genre Fiction

KHP Industries

Dead End! Fueled by high hopes and the words of motivational speaker Skip Forney, traveling salesman Tom Turley takes a road trip into Wyoming to close a deal that will salvage his self respect and save his cheesy, low-dog job - and winds up taking a wrong turn into hell! After a bloody encounter with serial-killer swingers, Tom wakes up from a dirt nap with a continually decomposing body, the entrepreneurial spirit, a craving for human flesh - and a taste for revenge. But what's a zombie to do with all eternity on his side? Re-inventing himself as a merger maniac with fangs, Tom becomes the King of Wall Street and proves that even death can't stop a man from staking his claim (through the hearts of his clients) or greasing the wheels of the corporate machine (with blood). "Dark Highway" is a lurid, humorous tale of zombie perseverance, hostile takeovers and world conquest, and invites you to take a horrifying, B-movie ride into the underbelly of one man's demonized soul.

Dark Highway

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

An Elmore County Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Newsouth Inc

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