The Reinventors How Extraordinary Companies Pursue Radical Continuous Change

by Jennings, Jason

• ISBN13: 9781591844235
• ISBN10: 1591844231
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-05-10
• Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover

Summary

How the world's most successful companies stay relevant through constant transformation.For most businesses, success is fleeting. There are only two real choices: stick with the status quo until things inevitably decline, or continuously change to stay vital. But how?Bestselling leadership and management guru Jason Jennings and his researchers screened 22,000 com­panies around the world that had been cited as great examples of reinvention. They selected the best, verified their success, interviewed their leaders, and learned how they pursue never-ending radical change. The fresh insights they discovered became Jennings's 'reinvention rules' for any business. The featured companies include: Starbucks-which turned itself around by mak­ing tons of small bets on new ideas. Fresher store designs, better food products, and free Wi-Fi were a few of the results. Apollo Tyres-which launched the Apollo Academy to train everyone and reinvented how it finds, keeps, and grows people. It went from five hundred million to two billion in annual sales in only a few years. Arrow Electronics-which found success by solving problems that drove its customers crazy and has become a twenty-billion-dollar electronics giant by shifting its focus from selling commodities to custom tailoring solutions. Smithfield Foods-which faced a PR crisis over the way it slaughtered animals and polluted the environment and transformed itself by hiring an environmental activist and empowering him to transform the company's ethos. The Anderson-McQueen Funeral Homes-which instead of lamenting the growing popularity of cre­mations opened its own profitable cremation center and turned the entire industry upside down.If you're ready to toss same old, same old out the door, The Reinventors will become your road map to successfully pursuing continuous change. It will help your company stay relevant for years to come.

Author Biography

JASON JENNINGS is the bestselling author of It’s Not the Big That Eat the Small—It’s the Fast That Eat the Slow; Less Is More; Think Big, Act Small; and Hit the Ground Running. USA Today named him one of the three most in-demand business speakers in the world. He and his family divide their time between Tiburon, California, and Timber Rock Shore in Michigan. Visit www.jason-jennings.com

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Constant Change And Growth	p. 9
Letting Go	p. 29
Picking The Destination	p. 55
Kiss A Lot Of Frogs	p. 75
Who Stays, Who Leads, Who Goes	p. 99
Getting And Keeping Everyone On The Same Page	p. 123
Forever Frugal	p. 149
Systematize Everything	p. 181
Don't Hesitate	p. 207
Acknowledgments	p. 229
Index	p. 233
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