100 Quick Tips for Business Success (The Short Attention Span Library series)

Perhaps it is the engineer in John but he has forever been asking himself how and why things work. Over the years he has built up an informal set of strategies - rules of thumb - general insights on why things work and how to be successful. These pragmatic tips come from struggling with the day-to-day chaos of business operations. John has developed tips to help grab hold in a crisis - tips he's used in corporate turnarounds. Tips for hiring and managing employees and lessons from mismanaging employees. Tips on dealing with the two great, unsolvable issues of every organization - communication and focus. When John wrote this book in 1994 he couldn't escape the feeling that somehow it had captured part of his soul.